What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Synopsis: Star-struck waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett, Topper) dreams of becoming a famous movie star. A chance meeting with acclaimed movie director Max Carey (Lowell Sherman, She Done Him Wrong) […]
American sound films between 1927 and 1933
Synopsis: Star-struck waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett, Topper) dreams of becoming a famous movie star. A chance meeting with acclaimed movie director Max Carey (Lowell Sherman, She Done Him Wrong) […]
Synopsis: Former students of an all-girls private school start dying under mysterious circumstances. It looks as if someone from their past has a personal vendetta against them. Reaction & Thoughts: […]
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 […]
Synopsis: A New York City street vendor, “Apple” Annie (May Robson, Bringing Up Baby) has been pretending to be a high society woman to her daughter, who has lived in […]
Synopsis: In a small town in the American South, a spoiled rich girl, played by Miriam Hopkins (These Three), is forced into prostitution by her rapist. Reaction & Thoughts: “You […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Synopsis: Forty years — from 1880s to 1920s — of Oklahoma history. The story is told from the perspective of a lawyer and newspaper editor, Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix, The […]
Synopsis: A heinous burglar known as “The Bat” terrorizes the city with a series of daring crimes. The criminal’s latest misdeed, a bank heist, leaves the police baffled. In a […]
Synopsis: A young couple, Madeleine Parker (Madge Bellamy, Charlie Chan in London) and her fiancé Neil Parker (John Harron, The Crowd Roars), agree to get married at a friend’s Haitian […]
Synopsis: In 19th century Paris, France, a sadistic scientist and circus performer, Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi, Dracula), is determined to prove that humans and apes share the same ancestors. In […]
Synopsis: A cowhand, ‘The Virginian’ (Gary Cooper, High Noon), and his best friend, Steve (Richard Arlen, Wings), vie for the affections of the newly-arrived school teacher, Molly Wood (Mary Brian, […]
Synopsis: City cop Butch Saunders (Pat O’Brien, Angels with Dirty Faces) is not happy with his transfer to the Missing Persons Division because he thinks that looking for people is […]