Sunday, 12 April 2020

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Sarah and Son (1930 - b/w) - Routine melodrama with Ruth Chatterton and Fredric March, by Dorothy Arzner.

Follow Thru (1930 - b/w) - Forgettable golfing musical.

Fast and Loose (1930 - b/w) - Rote comedy with Carole Lombard and Miriam Hopkins.

The Royal Family of Broadway (1930 - b/w) - Baffling Broadway farce.

Street of Chance (1930 - b/w) - William Powell melodrama. See also Man of the World (1931 - b/w), For the Defense (1933 - b/w).

Monte Carlo (1930 - b/w) - Typical 30s Jeanette McDonald light operetta, with Jack Buchanan. See also The Vagabond King (1930 - b/w).

Dangerous Paradise (1930 - b/w) - Forgettable tropicana allegedly based on Joseph Conrad.

Laughter (1930 - b/w) - Paramount melodrama. See also Honey (1930 - b/w), The Night Angel (1931 - b/w) and The Devil's Holiday (1930 - b/w), Stolen Heaven (1931 - b/w), The Woman Accused (1933 - b/w) all with Nancy Carroll, star of college farce Sweetie (1929 - b/w).

Manslaughter (1930  - b/w) - Claudette Colbert drama.
See also Young Man of Manhattan (1930 - b/w), Three Cornered Moon (1933 - b/w), Tonight is Ours (1933 - b/w) and Torch Singer (1933 - b/w).

Tom Sawyer (1930 - b/w) - Primitive but average adap.

The Big Pond (1930 - b/w) - Chevalier romances Colbert. Someone sings Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight.
See also Honor Among Lovers (1931 - b/w) and The Way to Love (1933 - b/w), BedTime Story (1933 - b/w), .

 The Smiling Lieutenant (1931 - b/w) - CHEVALIER DOES MIDDLE-EUROPEAN OPERETTA. See also Love Me Tonight (1932 - b/w) and One Hour with You (1932 - b/w), with Jeanette MacDonald.

Once a Lady (1931 - b/w) - Hollywood romance with Ivor Novello. Not to be confused with Lady for a Day (1934 - b/w).

Tarnished Lady (1931 - b/w) - Thought I'd seen this Tallulah Bankhead vehicle before.
Bankhead is also in the dreary De Mille faux-Oriental The Cheat (1931 - b/w).

Up Pops the Devil (1931 - b/w) - Routine Carol Lombard vehicle.
See also the westernish I Take This Woman (1931 - b/w) with Carole Lombard.

Ladies of the Big House (1931 - b/w) - Sylvia Sidney goes to prison.
See also City Streets (1931 - b/w) - Sidney in a similar crime drama.

Paramount on Parade (1931 - b/w) - Proto telethon including Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes versus Fu Manchu (Warner Oland).

Girls About Town (1931 - b/w) - Kay Francis romantic tosh.

Scandal Sheet (1931 - b/w)  -Dreary newspaper drama with Kay Francis.

This is the Night (1932 - b/w) - Cary Grant and Roland Young, typical 30s parlour comedy.
See also Hot Saturday (1932 - b/w)

Strangers in Love (-1932 - b/w) - Rote romance with Kay Francis and Fredric March. See also 24 Hours (1931 - b/w).

Wayward (1932 - b/w) - -Meh.

This Reckless Age (1932 - b/w) - Dreary comedy by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Make Me A Star (1932 - b/w) - Baffling Stuart Erwin cowboy comedy.

Broken Lullaby (1932 - b/w) - Lionel Barrymore European weepie.

The Night of June 13 (1932 - b/w) - Formulaic mystery with Clive Brook.

No Man of Her Own (1932 - b/w) - Typical Gable and Lombard romance.

Madame Butterfly (1932 - b/w) - Sylvia Sidney is a  ludicrous geisha, as she romances Cary Grant.

The Phantom President (1932 - b/w) - Claudette Colbert and George M Cohan in blackface.

Guilty as Hell (1932 - b/w) - Rote mystery with Victor McLaglen, not to be confused with the depressing chronic alcoholic Sylvia Sidney melodrama Merrily We Go to Hell (1932 - b/w).

Sitting Pretty (1932 - b/w) - Jack Haley and Ginger Rogers vehicle.

From Hell to Heaven (1933 - b/w) - Short all-star almost-featurette with Jack Oakie, David "Harker" Manners, Carole Lombard, Roman Castevet, all at a racecourse. Dreary.

Gambling Ship (1933 - b/w) - Typical 30s shipboard romance.

Take A Chance (1933 - b/w) - Rote musical comedy with James Dunn.

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933 -b/w) - Aviation saga.

Golden Harvest (1933 - b/w) - Tedious rural drama with Richard Arlen. Nothing to do with kung fu.

Crime of the Century (1933 - b/w) - Rote mystery, almost Monogram-level, but Paramount.

This Day and Age (1933 - b/w) - Elderly teen drama from Cecil B. DeMille.

The Story of Temple Drake (1933 - b/w) - Rote melodrama with Miriam Hopkins.

Murder at the Vanities (1934 - b/w) - Rote musical with mystery thrown in, and Victor McLaglen and Duke Ellington.

Wharf Angel (1934 - b/w) - Victor McLaglen hangs about a dock, feeling sorry for himself.

Come On, Marines (1934 - b/w)  - 1930s genteel proto-sex comedy with Ida Lupino.

Kiss and Make Up (1934 - b/w) - Rote Cary Grant romance.

Crime Without Passion (1934 ' b/w) - Rote melodrama, though Claude Rains give good ghost.

Good Dame (1934 - b/w) - Sylvia Sidney vehicle. You know the drill. See also An American Tragedy (1931 - b/w).

Cleopatra (1934 - b/w) - It's extravagant, and Claudette Colbert has presence, but Warren William looks like a da at a toga party.

Shoot the Works (1934 - b/w) - I can see why Jack Oakie remained as a second banana. Another interchangeable musical.

All of Me (1934 - b/w) - Another rote romance with Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and George Raft.
See also Dancers in the Dark (1932 - b/w), Two Kinds of Women (1932 - b/w) and Trouble in Paradise (1932 - b/w) with Hopkins and Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Design for Living (1933 - b/w).

Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen (1934 - b/w) - Baffling vehicle for one of the many toddler stars of the era, Baby LeRoy (as opposed to Baby Leroy - parents had notions).  See also The Lemon Drop Kid (1934 - b/w).

Melody in Spring (1934 - b/w) - Forgettable musical.

Here in My Heart (1934 - b/w) - Forgettable Bing Crosby vehicle. See also College Humour (1933 - b/w), Too Much Harmony (1933 - b/w) and She Loves Me Not (1934 -b/w).
And We're Not Dressing (1934 - B/W) - Ah, so that's where the Love They Neighbour theme came from.

Bolero (1934 - b/w) - Ludicrous dance nonsense/wartime drama with Carole Lombard and George Raft.  And Raymond Milland, as the Welshman is billed.

Private Worlds (1935 - b/w) - Stereotypical Claudette Colbert melodrama.

So Red the Rose (1935 - b/w) - Civil War nonsense with Randolph Scott.

Enter Madame (1935 - b/w) - More Cary, more operetta.

Wings in the Dark (1935 - b/w) - Rote aviation drama with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy.

The Glass Key (1935 - b/w) - Rough gangster antics with George Raft and Ray Milland.

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935 - b/w) - Sylvia Sidney melodrama.

The Gilded Lily (1935 - b/w) - Typical 30s Paramount, Colbert, Milland, MacMurray.  Set in London.

Hands Across the Table (1935 - b/w) - Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray romance, while Ralph Bellamy practices his wheelchair acting that would come in handy when he'd play Roosevelt.

Valiant is the Word for Carrie (1936 - b/w) - Rote rural drama from Paramount. Hattie McDaniel does her thing.

Wedding Present (1936 - b/w) - Romcom with Joan Bennett, Cary Grant

The General Died at Dawn (1936 - b/w) - Yellowfaced antics with Gary Cooper and Akim Tamiroff.

Midnight Manhunt (1945 - b/w) - Rote old dark houser from Paramount rather than Monogram, with George Zucco.

Daring Game (1968) - Throwaway Lloyd Bridges parachuting, feels like a TV pilot for a Mission Impossible knockoff. Produced by Ivan Tors.

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