Tag: 1930

Director: Dziga Vertov
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Soviet Union

How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Jim Tully
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

Jack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports. The one girl he tries to impress the most is in London and his mates call her ‘the Eskimo’. For two years, he approaches her every time he docks near London, and for two years, Joan rejects the expensive gifts he brings to her and ignores any and all advances he makes. She wants nothing to do with a sailor. When Jack uses trickery to convince Joan to marry him, Joan leaves him when she finds out the truth about his so called new life. There are rough seas ahead as Jack tries to get Joan to come back to him.

Director: Nick Grinde, Malcolm St. Clair, Edward Sedgwick
Stars: William Haines, Charles King, Mary Doran
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A radio announcer suspects a cohort sends coded messages over the air to his bank-robber friends.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA

‘Rainbow Girls’ has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Kaoru Futaba, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Stars: Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle’s store. But the glamorous department store ‘Aux Bonheur des Dames’ across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.

Director: Augusto Genina
Stars: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the ‘Miss Europe’ pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it’s too late; she’s even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she’s being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?

Director: George Abbott
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release, she realizes that she is in love wiht the District Attorney who reluctantly prosecuted her case, a man who was in love with her but who she had previously scorned.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss’s secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

Director: Harry Beaumont
Stars: Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

The married friends of a New York chorus girl encourage her to pursue a handsome but poor socialite.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Director: James Whale
Stars: Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart’s brother, will betray his downfall.

Director: René Clair
Stars: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France

Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An upper-crust artist hires a ‘party girl’ as a model; romance follows.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An upper-crust artist hires a ‘party girl’ as a model; romance follows.

Director: George W. Hill, Ward Wing
Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A convict falls in love with his new cellmate’s sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany

A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Marion Davies, Elliott Nugent, Raymond Hackett
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she’s not so dumb after all.

Director: Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale
Stars: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man’s arms.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.

Director: Victor Heerman
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer,  Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.