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Red Dust (1932)- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mary Astor… - Steamy pre–code drama that captures Jean Harlow at her tough, raunchy best, playing a Saigon hooker who's competing with Mary Astor for the…
Scarface (1932)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley - The most potent ganster flick of the '30s caused great controversy over its violent content when first released, still makes an impact today.…
Shanghai Express (1932)- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland - Hollywood's version of pre–revolutionary Shanghai is a lavish parallel universe of sin and oriental treachery with Marlene Dietrich (as…
Sign of the Cross, The (1932)- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton… - Pre–Code Hollywood epic from director Cecil B. DeMille, based on the Wilson Barrett play of the same name. Forms a biblical trilogy with…
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)- 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.…
Trouble in Paradise (1932)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis - Perhaps dir. Lubitsch's most celebrated comedy, this concerns a pair of endearing swindlers (Marshall and Hopkins) whose partnership in romance and…
Vampyr (1932)- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard - Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
White Zombie (1932)- 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…
A Nous la Liberte (1931)- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy - Pre–dating – and disputedly influencing – Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES by some years, this is both more lyrical and whimsical in its…
City Lights (1931)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow - Chaplin's most melancholy and beautiful film revolves around his love for a blind flower girl and his on–off relationship with a drunkard…
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