Subgenre Sampler
Earth (Zemlya) (1930)
- Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
Films of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste - Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Hell's Angels (1930)- Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon… - Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Hitchcock Showcase (1930)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Four films from the early career of suspense's elder statesman, available on twin cassettes – MURDER (1930), SKIN GAME (1931), NUMBER 17…
Little Caesar (1930)- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell - Star–making debut for Edward G Robinson as a bullying, Al Capone–style hood, whose unscrupulous methods land him the top job. Like most…
Madam Satan (1930)- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Roland Young - A genuine oddity (and second talkie) from Cecil B. DeMille, this typically extravagant pre–Code musical comedy stars Kay Johnson as a jealous…
Marx Brothers Collection (Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Animal Crackers) (1930-1933)- Feat. The Marx Brothers
- Three early–period comedies from the Marx Brothers.
Murder! (1930)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander - Hitchcock's second talkie is a clever whodunnit in which a juror (Marshall) in the murder trial of a young woman decides to open his own…
Party Girl (Dangerous Business) (1930)- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks - Tarty pre–code expose of ‘party girl’ rackets – or prostitution rings – with Douglas Fairbanks as a college cad looking for love in all…
Prix de Beaute (1930)- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini - Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
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