Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Synopsis: A poor farm girl (Greta Garbo, Ninotchka) runs away from home and is rescued by a worldly architect (Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind). They fall in love, but […]
Category Archives: 1931
Street Scene (1931)
Synopsis: One day in the lives of several tenants in a poor New York City neighborhood. Reaction & Thoughts: Producer Samuel Goldwyn’s Street Scene is a moving and often harrowing […]
Drácula (1931, Spanish-Language Version)
Synopsis: A mysterious Transylvanian aristocrat, Count Drácula (Carlos Villarias), moves to London, England. Drácula is really a blood-thirty vampire who begins to terrorize the city. An intrepid intellectual, Professor Van […]
Dracula (1931)
Synopsis: Mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi, Murders in the Rue Morgue), a Transylvanian vampire, moves to London, England, and begins a killing spree. A determined occult expert, Professor Van Helsing […]
Cimarron (1931)
Synopsis: Forty years — from 1880s to 1920s — of Oklahoma history. The story is told from the perspective of attorney and newspaperman, Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix, The Ghost Ship) […]
Rich and Strange (1931)
Synopsis: An ordinary suburban couple (Henry Kendall, The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, and Joan Barry, Sally Bishop) are fed up with their daily routine. After unexpectedly inheriting a small […]
The Skin Game (1931)
Synopsis: The story revolves around two feuding families, the aristocratic Hillcrists and the nouveau riche Hornblowers, and the consequences of their ongoing squabbles over land ownership. It’s no surprise that […]
Way Back Home (1931)
Synopsis: In a small rural town in Maine, Pastor Seth Parker (Phillips H. Lord, Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard) is famous for helping the needy. Parker focuses mostly on the problems […]
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
Synopsis: During WWI, an ex-chorus girl, played by Mae Clarke (The Public Enemy), turns to the streets as work becomes scarce. She falls in love with a young soldier, played by […]
The Bad Sister (1931)
Synopsis: An ambitious young woman, Marianne Madison (Sidney Fox, Call it Murder), is desperate to escape her boring small hometown in middle America. After falling in love with a travelling […]
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