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Betty Boop - The Ultimate CollectionBetty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939)
Dir. Max Fleisher
An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…
Devil's Brother, The (1933)
Dir. Hal Roach
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Laurel and Hardy become fearless highwaymen in 1700s Italy but meet their match in a notorious highwayman. Funny spoof of Auber's operetta.
LiebeleiLiebelei (1933)
Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler
An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
American MadnessAmerican Madness (1932)
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Walter Huston
Vivid parable in which Walter Huston portrays a bank president facing the threat of commercial failure during the Great Depression.
Bill of Divorcement, ABill of Divorcement, A (1932)
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke
Shell–shocked war veteran John Barrymore returns to the world after 15 years in an asylum, to find that wife Katharine Hepburn (in her screen…
Smilin' Through (1932)
Dir. Sidney Franklin
Feat. Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard
Winning tear–jerker with Norma Shearer and Fredric March in dual roles as two sets of unrequited lovers caught in a blood feud.
Tarzan the Ape ManTarzan the Ape Man (1932) Recommended
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan
If you're looking for the classic chest beatin', vine swingin' versions of Edgar Rice Burrough's much–abused creation, this is where you start.…
White ZombieWhite Zombie (1932) Recommended
Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
Cimarron (1931)
Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
Set during the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1880's, a charismatic newspaper editor claims a plot of land and resettles himself, along with his rather…
Madchen in UniformMadchen in Uniform (1931) Recommended
Dir. Leontine Sagan
Feat. Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck
Influential early German sound–film notorious (and censored) for the sensual lesbian overtones that colour its tale of Hertha Thiele's…

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