Movies I Have Seen: 1930's

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.

Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

Pamela, a woman in late-1800s England, wishes to be her own person and has no intention to ever marry. After she has a great deal of difficulty finding a job, she finally lands a position at a "woman's" magazine that covers topics like sewing and cooking. When the editor takes sick, Pamela moves the magazine into discussing issues like gender equality, child labor, medical care, and job searches. She is then surprised to find herself the leader of a movement. After an unexpected event, she is also faced with raising a child without a father, something people of that time thought was scandalous.

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.

Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and returns to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.

When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.

Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.