The production and marketing of the French potato crop are covered in this documentary short subject.Read More »
1930s
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Yves Allégret – Prix et profits, la pomme de terre aka Prices and Profits, the Potato (1931)
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Frank Capra – Platinum Blonde (1931)
1931-1940ClassicsComedyFrank CapraUSASynopsis:
Reporter ‘Stew’ Smith meets beautiful Ann Schuyler, a rich socialite, while covering the story of a scandal involving Ann’s family. Ann takes a liking to the wisecracking Smith and the couple eventually elope. Stew’s roots as a street smart reporter don’t prepare him well for mixing with Ann’s high society friends and he starts spending more time with his ‘pal’, female reporter Gallagher. Everything comes to a head when Ann and her family return home to their mansion one evening and find that Stew has invited all his ‘pals’ over for an impromptu drinking party.Read More » -
Frank Capra – Broadway Bill (1934)
1931-1940ComedyDramaFrank CapraUSATycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.’s paper-box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin, luck is against him, and he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse feed, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance.Read More »
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Lewis D. Collins – The Leavenworth Case (1936)
1931-1940Lewis D. CollinsMysteryUSAA remarkable monkey may hold the key to the mysterious murder of a wealthy philanthropist.Read More »
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Lewis D. Collins – Ticket to a Crime (1934)
1931-1940CrimeLewis D. CollinsMysteryUSAA Man is found murdered at the Lido Country Club and, although several people are under suspicion, including Elaine and Willis Purdy, the police can not find the murderer; but private detective Clay Holt, and his pretty secretary Peggy Cummings unearth the vital clue and bring the killer to justice.Read More »
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John English – Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
1931-1940ActionAdventureJohn EnglishUSADaredevils of the Red Circle” (1939) is a 12-Chapter Republic Movie Serial starring Charles Quigley, David Sharpe, Herman Brix (better known under his subsequent stage name, Bruce Bennett) and Charles Middleton. It was directed by William Witney and John English and is often considered one of the better serials produced by Republic. The serial was the fourteenth of the sixty-six serials produced by the studio.Read More »
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John M. Stahl – When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
1931-1940DramaJohn M. StahlRomanceUSAA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.Read More »
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Shirô Toyoda – Nakimushi kozo AKA Crybaby Apprentice (1938)
1931-1940ClassicsDramaJapanShirô ToyodaShiro Toyada is known for his literary adaptations and this is an early adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi’s work, the second after Sotoji Kimura’s A Wanderer’s Notebook from three years ealier. Like Toyoda’s later 50s masterpieces it features strong minded woman and weak, feckless men.
Crybaby Apprentice tells of four sisters, the eldest, the widowed Sadako, has a failed businessman as a lover and two children, eleven year old Keikichi and his younger sister. The boy’s sullen demeanour gets on “uncle’s” nerves and after moving in to save money he threatens to move out again. During the course of the film Keikichi is passed from one sister to the next, unwanted either as a nuisance or through poverty.Read More »
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Minoru Shibuya – Haha to ko AKA Mother and Child (1938)
1931-1940ClassicsDramaJapanMinoru ShibuyaThis is an early film from the career of Shibuya Minoru and according to Donald Richie in The Japanese Film: Art and Industry, “One of his best, the 1939 [actally 1938] Mother and Child (Haha to ko), was taken from a onvel by Tsuneko Yada. This story of a young daughter, her businessman father, and his mistress was slightly overloaded with sentiment and burdened with the confused social criticism apparent in some of the director’s postwar work, but was nonetheless representative of the period.Read More »