Call Her Savage (1932), Min and Bill (1930), Ladies of Leisure (1930), Anna Christie (1930), Laughter (1930), The Jazz Singer (1927), The Squaw Man (1931), The Hollywood Revue (1929) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Talkie movies.
Storyline: Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, melodrama, 1930s, controversial, female protagonist, scandal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Min owns the waterfront hotel where Bill, the captain of a fishing boat, lives. Also living and working in the hotel is Nancy, whom Min took in some years ago as an abandoned girl. Now that Nancy is older, the truant officer and the police think that she should be moved to a different environment, and Min is torn between her attachment to Nancy and her concern that the waterfront may not be the best place for a young woman. Matters are brought to a head by the sudden re-appearance of Belle, Nancy's disreputable mother.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film, working class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jerry Strong's the son of a wealthy businessman, but he wants to be a painter. He hires Kay Arnold, a woman with a questionable past, as a model. They fall in love, and plan to get married. But Jerry's parents raise strong objections.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film, paramount ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave Minnesota to stay with him. Chris left Anna fifteen years ago to the countryside to be raised by relatives in a farm in St. Paul and he has never visited his daughter. Anna Christie arrives and she is a wounded woman with a hidden dishonorable past since she had worked for two years in a brothel to survive. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night, Chris rescues the sailor Matt and two other fainted sailors from the sea. Soon Anna and Matt fall in love with each other and Anna has the best days of her life. But when Matt proposes to marry her, she is reluctant and also haunted by her past. Matt insists and Anna opens her heart to Matt and to her father disclosing the darks secrets of her past.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, adaptation, 1930s, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, classic, black and white, musical film, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music. One day, they have such a bitter argument that Jakie leaves home for good. After a few years on his own, now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity through the help of well-known stage performer Mary Dale. But Jakie finds that in order to balance his career, his relationship with Mary, and his memories of his family, he will be forced to make some difficult choices.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, black and white, silent film, jewish culture, family conflict, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: western, drama, romance, historical, adventure, american film, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. A plethora of chorus boys and girls are featured front and center in some of the song and dance numbers, and provide back-up to some other acts. But the revue primarily is a vehicle to highlight a cavalcade of Hollywood movie and Broadway stage stars. One early running gag has both Nagel and Benny playing straight man to Cliff Edwards, who just wants a nice introduction to his act. Edwards would return later to be featured along with the Brox Sisters in one of the highlights of the second act, a production number around the song "Singin' in Rain", complete with rain soaked stage. A reprise of the song with the entire cast acts as the revue's finale.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, song and dance, classic, hollywood, black and white, all-star cast ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Mexican temptress (Dorothy Burgess) plays dirty with an Army sergeant (Edmund Lowe) and the outlaw Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter).
Plot Keywords: western, early cinema, adaptation, period drama, crime film, adventure, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nina Leeds (Norma Shearer) loses the love of her life when he is killed in World War I. She marries the loyal Sam Evans (Alexander Kirkland), but immediately stops caring for him when she realizes that they cannot have children together. She eventually begins an extramarital romance with a doctor named Ned Darrell (Clark Gable), and they have a child, Gordon (Robert Young). The domineering Nina attempts to pass the child off as Sam's own, leading to years of tragic family dysfunction.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, adaptation, stage play, classic, black and white ...
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