The Blue Angel (1930), M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931), Street Scene (1931), Dracula (1931), David Copperfield (1935), Little Caesar (1931), Employees' Entrance (1933), The Big Trail (1930) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Early Sound Film movies.
Storyline: As children, Zouzou (Joséphine Baker) and Jean (Jean Gabin) performed together in a circus. Onstage, they were falsely billed as brother and sister, but in truth Zouzou harbored a secret love for her costar. As an adult, she now works as a laundress, and it seems as if her showbiz days are over. But everything changes when Jean helps land her a spot dancing at a Paris theater. Zouzou rockets to stardom, even as Jean's romance with her friend Claire (Yvette Lebon) leaves her lovelorn.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, drama, romance, french cinema, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, broadway, royalty, satire, family, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, black and white, classic film, gunfight, revenge, justice, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Reggie, the impish Marquis of Buckminster, has many friends and is happy with his present bachelor lifestyle. But his grandmother demands that he now get married to one of a few suitable women that she names, and have some children. Two of the women are twin sisters who are friends of his from another aristocratic family, so he visits them, and learns that they already have fiancés but commoners, against their family's wishes. If he can help them to marry the men they want, it will also shorten the list of candidates and maybe help him remain single so Reggie does everything he can to help them.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, british film, black and white, 1930s, high society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, psychological conflict, 1920s, golden age of hollywood, expressionism, stage performance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Terry Parker (George Brent) is shattered by the crash of his airplane which killed his parents and sister, and adopts a listless attitude toward life. But romance enters in the person of Amy Prentiss (Kay Francis), the girl friend of his best friend, Gibraltar (Warren William), who graciously lets love take its course and even helps the couple get married and get located. Amy tries to steer Terry out of his irresponsible ways but fails and eventually leaves him, only to be reunited when called to Terry's side after he has been in an automobile crash.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, 1930s, black and white, classic, hollywood, warner bros ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Boyd Emerson loves the wealthy Mildred Wayland, but so does Boyd's unscrupulous rival in the Yukon salmon fisheries, Frederick Marsh. The two battle for Mildred's hand and for control of the thriving fishing business.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, romance, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Both Sam Crew and his gang and Sonora Joe and his men are rustlers after a cattle herd just arriving. John Steele, sent by the Governor, is out to stop them. Greatly outnumbered, Steele's plan is to deputize Sonora and his men to fight the Crew gang.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, sheriff, black and white, action, adventure, gunfight, fast-paced ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe.
Plot Keywords: black and white film, musical, comedy, drama, classic hollywood, nostalgic film, song and dance film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Plot Keywords: musical, song and dance film, black and white film, broadway, 1920s, warner bros, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A well-off bachelor finds himself at a loss for what to do when a married woman comes on to him while he's thoroughly involved with someone else's wife.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, marriage, betrayal, female perspective, social critique, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, new york, 1930s, black and white, street life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After her father's death, Mary Rainey takes over the Rainey Circus (which operates twice daily, rain or shine) but runs into financial troubles. In one bit reminiscent of the Marx Brothers, the circus performers are up to some ridiculous antics at a dinner party with the family of Bud Conway, Mary's beau. As times become worse and the performers go on strike, Mary must try to save the circus from rioting patrons.—Paul Donahue
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, classic, black and white, american film, musical film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hank and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Hank, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Hank recognizes that Eddie is in love with Queenie.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, drama, classic, hollywood, golden age, backstage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In old California Captain John Holmes must convince landowner Don Jose Cantares to register his land or face having it become public domain. Don Luis Gonzales, with rather selfish motives, is trying to convince him to do otherwise.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: western, 1930s, sheriff, romance, action, adventure, california ...
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