The Toast of New York (1937) Trailer

The Toast of New York

The terror of Wall Street was a chump for this girl!

The Toast of New York is a 1937 American biopic starring Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, and Jack Oakie. 

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The story starts just before the Civil War, showing Fisk, Boyd, and Luke conning Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that, might, have a $10 gold piece inside. Found out, they're chased out of town and escape across the Mason-Dixon Line just as the war starts. Fisk hatches a plan for him and Boyd to return to the South and buy cotton then smuggle it to the North where Luke is to sell it to the Northern textile mills. By the end of the war they have made millions, only to find out that Luke had been re-investing their money into Confederate Bonds. This fact-based movie shows Jim Fisk as one of the greatest con-men and entrepreneur's in history. It concludes with his involvement in "Black Friday", the Financial Panic of 1869, with fellow financier Jay Gould (who's not represented in the movie) and their attempt to corner the U.S. gold market. There's a love triangle between Fisk, Boyd and Mansfield, which is also based on historical accounts. Written by AzRanger

Beethoven (1936) Excerpt

Un grand amour de Beethoven

 L'immortelle aimee

Beethoven's Great Love (French title: Un grand amour de Beethoven, US title: The Life and Loves of Beethoven) is a 1937 French film directed by Abel Gance.

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1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that decision, but by then he and Thérèse are engaged. When Beethoven loses Juliette, he moves to the mill at Heiligenstadt; realizing he's becoming deaf, profound depression sets in. He rejects suicide, holding on to remembered sound and to his work, a dedication assisted by Thérèse and others. In later years, we see his devotion to an ungrateful and thieving nephew, his poverty, the isolation of deafness, and the love of friends.Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

The White Angel (1936) Trailer

The White Angel

The White Angel is a 1936 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Kay Francis.

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The film depicts Florence Nightingale's pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War.

Rembrandt (1936) Trailer

Rembrandt

Give Me a Beautiful Woman ! and I will make men worship and gaze upon her forever ... One mad moment of love brought him a lifetime of fear !!!!

Rembrandt is a 1936 British biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.

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This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

The Plainsman (1936) Trailer

The Plainsman

The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.

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With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his young wife Louisa Cody that want to settle down in Hays City managing a hotel, Wild Bill Hickok finds the guide Breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the Indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles. Hickok meets Gen. George A. Custer that assigns Buffalo Bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help the fort. Meanwhile the Cheyenne kidnap Calamity Jane, forcing Hickok to expose himself to rescue her.Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Annie Oakley (1935) Trailer

Annie Oakley

The sharpshooting star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show lives again to thrill you in a

 drama of fighting men and red romance!

Annie Oakley is a 1935 American biographical film directed by George Stevens and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, and Moroni Olsen. 

The film is based on the life of Annie Oakley.

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A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.

The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

The Rise of Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great (also titled The Rise of Catherine the Great) is a 1934 British historical film based on the play The Czarina by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel, about the rise to power of Catherine the Great. 

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In 1745 a German princess, renamed Catherine, arrives to marry Grand Duke Peter of Russia, whom she initially likes. But his suspicious, unstable nature gradually estranges them, and Peter finds solace with pretty courtiers. Catherine invents her own (fictitious) lovers, temporarily improving matters. Alas, accession to the throne brings out the worst in Peter, and loyal Catherine is urged to assume power.Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

Waltzes from Vienna

Waltzes from Vienna (1934) is a British musical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, also known as Strauss' Great Waltz. It was part of the cycle of operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s.

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Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write a waltz for her. Schani writes and plays it, but he is always loyal to his girlfriend. Written by Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>

Narcotic (1933)

Narcotic

One night of bliss... A thousand nights of hell..!

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As the opening scroll tells us, Narcotic was "presented in the hope that the public may become aware of the terrific struggle to rid the world of drug addiction." The movie itself is a salacious plunge into a world of sordid pleasures. It tells us the story of Dr. William G. Davies, an infamous snake-oil salesman who started his career as a promising medical student. In the opening sequence he saves an unborn baby by performing a cesarean operation after the mother was killed in an automobile accident. Stock medical footage shows a woman's stomach being sliced open like a ripe watermelon and the baby popping out like a jack-in-a-box. But the allure of opium proves too strong for the doctor to resist. After a single night of relaxation in a Chinatown opium den, Davies becomes a slave to drugs. As his medical practice deteriorates, he shifts his attention to "selling medicine by demonstration." He says to his nurse/fiancee, "I can't see anything wrong if my preparation has merit." ... Written by Sujit R. Varma

Alexander Hamilton (1931) Trailer

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton is a 1931 American biographical film about Alexander Hamilton, produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and based on a play by George Arliss and Mary Hamlin. 

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With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was over paying the soldiers who had fought in the War, Hamilton also dedicated his energies towards a national bank so that the United States would be able to trade with other countries. He fought eight long years for his Assumption Bill while considering the new Residence Bill. While he is engaged in running a clean treasury, his arch rival, Senator Roberts, takes every opportunity to slander and cast Alexander as a dishonorable man. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

The Spy in Black (1939) Trailer

The Spy in Black

Women and children first...to die...in U-Boat attack! Suicide submarine crews ravage

 the high seas...in history's most ruthless slaughter of innocents!

The Spy in Black is a 1939 British film, and the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Trailer

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy thriller film and the first blatantly 

anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II.

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FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world...

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is a British suspense film directed by 

Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British.

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The British Lawrence family is on vacation in a ski resort in Switzerland. Bob, Jill and daughter Betty are

 having fun and relaxing brilliant. At dancing party Jill dances with another guest who calls himself Louis.

 He gets shot through a window while dancing. Dying, he can still give Jill an information regarding a letter

 in his room. Bob is looking for this letter, finds it, but is surprised and arrested by the police. At the same

 time daughter Betty is kidnapped. The mark is leading back to London. Betty is found in a church,where

 a mysterious sect prevents a strange worship, but can not be freed. A hint leads Jill to the gangster Abbott. There she accidentally overhears, that a state official shall be murdered in the Royal Albert Hall. With a

 yell, Jill can prevent that in very last moment. The gangsters flee to their hiding place. The Police

 besieges the house and after a wild shootout, the gang is overwhelmed. Jill wants to rescue her

 daughter. She shoots the gangster Abbott.

The Marseillaise (1938) Scene

La Marseillaise

La Marseillaise is a (1938) film about the early part of the French Revolution. The film was 

directed by Jean Renoir. La Marseillaise is shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille,

counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI each showing their own small problems.

Secret of the Blue Room (1933)

Secret of the Blue Room

Shocks! Shivers! Sensation! Surprises! Creeping shadows, clutching hands, a blue

death-chamber and a houseful of bewildered men defying the supernatural for

 the sake of a beautiful girl!...

Secret of the Blue Room (1933) is a murder-mystery film starring Lionel Atwill,

 Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas and Edward Arnold.

Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each

 want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to 

prove their bravery to her.

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Murders in the Zoo (1933) Scene

Murders in the Zoo

Murders in the Zoo is 1933 horror film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, 

written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller.

Eric Gorman returns with his wife Evelyn from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals,

 having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman.

 On board ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, who falls in love with her. After delivering 

his animals to the zoo, Gorman plots a way to dispose of Hewitt using one of his

latest specimens, then continues using the zoo's non-human residents

 to do his beastly work.

Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>

The Bat Whispers (1930) Trailer

Roland West's The Bat Whispers

Look out! The arch criminal is here!

The Bat Whispers Trailer - Cut in the style of 

"The Dark Knight Rises"

A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an

 isolated country mansion.

Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

Daughter of the Dragon

1931 film based on Sax Rohmer's "Daughter of Fu Manchu".

 Starring Warner Oland and Anna Mae Wong.

• Princess Ling Moy, a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr. Fu Manchu, a brilliant but twisted genius who is out to rule the world. She is involved with Ah Kee, a handsome young man, who also unbeknownst to her, is a secret agent out to thwart the heinous plots of Fu Manchu. As it turns out, Fu is not only her next-door neighbor, he is also, (unbeknownst to her), her father. When she finds out, will she take her father's part and fight the men out to get Fu, or will she become a brave heroine and save the world even if it is from the devious doings of her own Dad? Yes, it's dated, and there isn't nearly enough of Warner Oland in it; but it moves along well, has a lot of action, Wong and Hayakawa were fine actors, and if you're a Charley Chan fan, it's worth it to how much, if any, of Fu Oland used when creating Charley Chan.
  - Written by Jim Knoppow

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) Trailer

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic story of the horrors of Paris

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A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts

 to kidnapping women for his experiments.

The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) Trailer

The Story of Louis Pasteur