King Kong (1933)
Godzilla may be the King of Monsters, but King Kong may forever be the king of monster movies. A fantastic and lasting adventure, King Kong works on multiple levels. Although it was a spectacular feat in special effects...
Category: 1930s
Rich and Strange (1931)
Rich and Strange is probably a film that will only appeal to Alfred Hitchcock completists, and as such, it’s a hit-and-miss affair which has an entertainment value that will vary greatly depending on the reasons why...
Jamaica Inn (1939)
An orphaned young woman named Mary (O’Hara, Miracle on 34th Street) travels to Cornwall to stay with her aunt and uncle in a place called the Jamaica Inn. The downside to this is the fact that...
The 39 Steps (1935)
Robert Donat plays Richard Hannay, a Canadian visiting London who travels to a local show. Gunshots erupt, and during the mad dash for the exits, he bumps into a woman (Mannheim), asking to go...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Leslie Banks (Jamaica Inn, Henry V) and Edna Best (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Intermezzo) play a happily married couple who go on vacation in Switzerland when a colleague of theirs is assassinated. They...
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I know everyone knows the story, but for the purists I will continue. Dorothy (Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis) runs away from her home on the farm, due to dissatisfaction with her life, desiring to...
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Do you really need a plot summary? Scarlett O’Hara (Leigh) is a bratty daughter of a plantation owner, who goes through a series of hardships in trying to keep her family’s land and through several...
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
A young woman (Lockwood, Night Train to Munich) heads home by train for her wedding, but along the way discovers that the woman she has tea with (Whitty, Suspicion) mysteriously disappears. After searching the train and questioning fellow...