Showing posts with label 1931. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1931. Show all posts

14 May, 2017

City Lights (1931)

Synopsis:
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Starring:
Charles Chaplin
Virginia Cherrill
Florence Lee

Director: Charles Chaplin

04 November, 2012

Lonely Wives (1931)

Synopsis:
Edward Everett Horton plays Richard "Dickie" Smith, a respectable defence lawyer, for murder cases, who turns into an unfettered Don Juan, after the clock strikes 8 o'clock, in this Pre-Hays Code comedy.
To fool his Mother-in-Law, Maude Eburne, as Mrs. Mantel, he hires famous vaudeville impersonator Felix, the Great Zero, played by Edward Everett Horton, in a double role, to stay at the house.
While he goes out on the town, with his new, sultry secretary, Patsy Ruth Miller, as Kitty "Minty" Minter; and, his new client, Laura La Plante, as Diane O'Dare, unsuspecting that the husband she wants to divorce, for neglect, is actually Felix, the Great Zero, himself.
When Esther Ralston, as Madeline Smith, returns early from her trip, Felix knows that the jig is up; or, is it.
It's a question of who's fooling who, which ends with an angry husband chasing them all with a loaded gun, an irate cabby looking for his fare, and a seemingly, flirtatious, fired, French maid.
Meanwhile, Spencer Charters, as Andrews, the Butler, thinks he must have the DT's, seeing double of everyone.
They know they'll reform their ways, if any of them survive the night.

Starring:
Edward Everett Horton
Esther Ralston
Laura La Plante
Patsy Ruth Miller
Spencer Charters
Maude Eburne
Maurice Black

Director: Russell Mack

09 December, 2011

Die 3 Grοschen-Oper (1931)

AKA:
The 3 Penny Opera

Synopsis:
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.

Starring:
Rudolf Forster
Lotte Lenya
Carola Neher

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst (G. W. Pabst)

02 June, 2010

TABU (1931)

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10 May, 2010

Dracula (1931)

Synopsis:
Dracula is a classic 1931 horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal Pictures Co. Inc. and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

13 May, 2009

M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder (1931)



Synopsis:
This film is nothing less than a masterpiece.
It is a highly structured and stylized film about a serial killer.
It created the serial kill genre, which includes such entries as Psycho and Silence of the Lambs.
Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960)).
"M" was not only the originator of the genre, but arguably remains it preeminent entry.

Highly recommended for those in the mood for a Hitchcockian-style thriller with a great performance by Peter Lorre and great story-telling technique by Fritz Lang.

Director: Fritz Lang