Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Street Scene (1931)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., Estelle Taylor… - Drama set over a single 24 hours on a city block in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Describes a melting pot of gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery…
Svengali (1931)- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher… - Adapted from the novel by George du Maurier, this has a hypnotic maniac (Barrymore) turning his evil gaze on a young model and forcing her to…
Tabu (1931)- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier - A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…
Vintage Mickey (1931-1933)- Timeless collection of Mickey Mouse's more memorable cartoons, featuring the classic "Steamboat Willie", notable for being the very first appearance…
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray… - Landmark film looks at WW1 from the enemy's point of view. It remains brilliant and quite moving after all these years. Academy Award winner for Best…
Animal Crackers (1930)- Dir. Victor Heerman
Feat. Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx… - Pre–Hollywood Marx Brothers, a little stagey yet with a glorious abundance of gags.
Anna Christie (1930)- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler… - Ayoung woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. Garbo's first…
Big Trail, The (1930)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel… - The film that elevated a young John Wayne from bit–part actor to leading man is this grand saga of a wagon trail, shot in an early form of 70mm.
Blood of a Poet (1930)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton - Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, The (1930)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings - A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
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