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Thriller

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

22 Feb The Old Dark House (1932)

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Extremes without Connection is James Whale in his prime, for better or worse. The film was lost for generations before being reclaimed and restored, and for that reason is celebrated beyond its merits. What we have is a collection of stereotypical scenarios and characters. A stormy...

Published February 22, 2023

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Jewel Robbery (1932)

He stole her jewels -- but that wasn't all!

Filmmaker(s): William Dieterle

Comedy

Crime

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

07 Mar Jewel Robbery (1932)

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Sex, Drugs and Crime Powell is responsible for a huge element of our loves, the smoothness that has comic irony behind it. He invented it. There are a few of his movies that are essential viewing, but those are after the government thugs decided what...

Published March 7, 2023

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Tagged: 1930s, f1932, p2005

Island of Lost Souls (1932)

TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!

Filmmaker(s): Erle C. Kenton

Adventure

Science Fiction

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

24 Mar Island of Lost Souls (1932)

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The Soul of the Movie a movie enters you while you watch it. These days a movie often enters you well before you pay to see it, the soul of the thing having been conveyed to you by too-long trailers and saturation advertising. But is...

Published March 24, 2023

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Tagged: 1930s, f1932, p2006

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)

They found a love they dared not touch!

Filmmaker(s): Frank Capra

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

17 Jan The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)

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Frank can get value out of pretty much any film, but some are harder work than others because they place impediments. Capra and Spielberg are the leading placers of the leading impediments: representing the world in a way that is ideal, attractive, but presented in...

Published January 17, 2024

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Tagged: 1930s, f1932, p2008

Blond Venus (1932)

What could she do but flee from love? She loved two men at once!

Filmmaker(s): Josef von Sternberg

In an effort to get enough money to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret, gaining fame as Blonde Venus and unknowingly catching the eye of a wealthy politician.

20 Jan Blond Venus (1932)

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Furry are better von Sternberg Dietrich projects. The only charm of this one is the America situation. I never got the charm of Dietrich, and if you didn’t, you’ll find this empty. It has three stage performances by our blond Venus. The first of these is...

Published January 20, 2024

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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

The Frankenstein of the Orient!

Filmmaker(s): Charles Brabin

Adventure

Science Fiction

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

11 Dec The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

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Scientific Rape many times a movie can be worthwhile when it does no more than create and display a strange world. Almost always that's the case where the world is new and/or synthesised from previous abstract sources. "Metropolis" of five years earlier is often celebrated as...

Published December 11, 2024

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Tagged: 1930s, f1932, p2005

Freaks (1932)

Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?

Filmmaker(s): Tod Browning

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

11 Dec Freaks (1932)

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Elephant Men older gems have to be watched with eyes on two levels. The first concerns the experience within the narrative. Projects that worked well in this regard when new often fade. Those that continue to work as the context changes get called "classics" as if...

Published December 11, 2024

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Tagged: 1930s, f1932, p2005

A Free Soul (1931)

She wasn't a divorcee but she believed that strangers could kiss!

Filmmaker(s): Clarence Brown

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.

24 Dec A Free Soul (1931)

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The Big Speech movies are theatrical in the sense that all their values and methods are derived from stage values. This is one. Some movies are in that sweet spot after talkies got going and before the code was enforced, so they have a vitality that...

Published December 24, 2022

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The Iron Man (1931)

A Pig Iron Jaw and a Mule Kick Got Him the Paper Crown.

Filmmaker(s): Tod Browning

Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.

19 Jan The Iron Man (1931)

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No Cinderella you enter into a film, you are accepting a world. You are accepting whatever God and physics and mythology that the filmmaker has created. Within that world, wheels turn and things happen. All too often we think the movie is about those happenings. We...

Published January 19, 2024

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Tagged: 1930s, f1931, p2005

City Lights (1931)

True Blind Love

Filmmaker(s): Charlie Chaplin

Comedy