1930s films
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DramaMr. Smith Goes to Washington
Comedy / Drama 1939 / 130 min Rating: 9/10 Imagine if a director made a movie lauding Martin Luther’s Reformation, and then had the chutzpah…
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DramaMr. Deeds Goes to Town
Drama/Romance 115 min / 1936 Rating: 8/10 Frank Capra is best known for his 1946 hit It’s a Wonderful Life. But a decade earlier he…
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DramaThe Count of Monte Cristo
Drama 1934 / 107 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is based on the story by Alexander Dumas (who also authored The Three Musketeers), and while it…
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DramaLord Jeff
Drama / Black & White / Family 1938 / 85 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a fantastic film… and a hard sell for any modern…
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FamilyThe Prince and the Pauper
Adventure 1937 / 118 minutes RATING: 8/10 The swashbuckling Errol Flynn stars in one of the earliest, and still one of the best, film adaptations…
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DramaRoberta
Musical 1935 / 106 minutes RATING: 8/10 It’s 1935, and Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and his band, the Indianians of Wabash, Indiana have just gotten…
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DramaBasil Rathbone’s classic 14-film (1939-1946) go as Sherlock Holmes
If there’s any one film that deserves credit as the inspiration for the innumerable cinematic Holmesian interpretations that followed, it’d be Basil Rathbone’s 1939 performance…
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DramaThe Adventures of Robin Hood
Drama/Action 101 min / 1938 Rating: 8/10 Aside from a little medieval Roman Catholicism in the character of Friar Tuck (for instance, asking a woman…
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DramaThe Man in the Iron Mask
Drama 1939 / 112 minutes Rating: 6/10 Based loosely on the Alexander Dumas story of the same name, it takes place 20 years after Dumas’…
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DramaFREE FILM: The Amazing Adventure
Drama / Black & White / Family 62 minutes / 1936 RATING: 7/10 Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) is a young man who has inherited a…