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Subgenre Sampler
Possessed (1931)- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable - Vivid and detailed early drama about a rich NYC lawyer and his mistress, made when its lead performers were both on the verge of stardom. Centred…
Red Headed Woman / Waterloo Bridge (1931-1932)- Dir. Jack Conway, James Whale
Feat. Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone… - RED HEADED WOMAN: A snappy comedy from the pre–code Hollywood era with Jean Harlow playing a woman from Ohio who manipulates men in order to…
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…
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…
Threepenny Opera, The (3 Penny Opera, The) (1931)- Dir. G.W. Pabst
- The ever–pointed satire of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical, in its London dockland setting of thieves, beggars and bobbies is given a…
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…
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.
City Girl (1930)- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence - Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
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…
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