Subgenre Sampler
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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…
Time to Remember, A - New Zealand Edition (Movietone Edition) (1930-1975)
- Comprehensive archive of New Zealand Cinesound and Movietone newsreels, from 1930–1975. Surveying five decades of Kiwi history and heritage,…
W.C. Fields Collection, The (1930-1933)
- Feat. W.C. Fields
- Compilation of the gin–blossomed comics finest shorts taken from when his slapstick tomfoolery was at its peak.
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Applause (1929)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Helen Morgan, Jack Cameron, Joan Peers…
- Early sound musicial about a fading burlesque queen who sends her daughter to a convent in an attempt to remove her from the sleazy theatre world she…
Asphalt (1929)
- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Gustav Frohlich, Betty Amann
- Bravura melodrama from the German Expressionist era wrangles with the divided loyalites of a love–struck police officer who falls for a sultry…
Blackmail (1929)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood…
- Notable early thriller from Hitch, with Ondra being blackmailed by someone who knows she accidentally killed a rapist. Features good London…
Cocoanuts, The (1929)
- Dir. Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Feat. Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Chico Marx…
- The first feature–length Marx Brothers is probably one for completists only, with much of the film's running time devoted to mediocre musical…
Colour Box: 19 films by Len Lye (1929-1979)
- As it says on the tin, a 19–film compilation by the New Zealand–born master of ‘direct’ animation, made between 1929 to…
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks
- Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…