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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19291931

1930

Sound found its footing and the movies found their myths: monsters, musicals and screwball wit against the Depression.

The films everyone saw

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All Quiet on the Western Front

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

3.9

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

Earth

During the agrarian collectivization process in the Soviet Union, Vasyl, a peasant member of the youth division of the Communist Party, gets a tractor with the help of a local party organization and plows private boundaries on kulak fields. However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

3.3

Earth

1930

L'Âge d'or

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

3.4

L'Âge d'or

1930

Morocco

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

3.2

Morocco

1930

The Blue Angel

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

3.7

The Blue Angel

1930

Hell's Angels

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

3.3

Hell's Angels

1930

Murder!

When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.

3.0

Murder!

1930

À propos de Nice

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

3.4

À propos de Nice

1930

Animal Crackers

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

3.5

Animal Crackers

1930

Juno and the Paycock

In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

2.4

Juno and the Paycock

1930

City Girl

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

3.8

City Girl

1930

The Big Trail

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

3.4

The Big Trail

1930

Anna Christie

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

3.0

Anna Christie

1930

People on Sunday

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

3.6

People on Sunday

1930

The Big House

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

3.3

The Big House

1930

The Divorcee

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.

3.1

The Divorcee

1930

Hog Wild

First, Ollie can't find his hat. Then he and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.

3.4

Hog Wild

1930

Westfront 1918

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

3.3

Westfront 1918

1930

Hidden gems of 1930loved by the few who found them

Another Fine Mess

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

3.5

Another Fine Mess

1930

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.

3.4

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

1930

Brats

Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

3.4

Brats

1930

Under the Roofs of Paris

In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.

3.3

Under the Roofs of Paris

1930

Below Zero

Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

3.3

Below Zero

1930

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Castle Gay

Dickson McCunn (Fictitious character) · Fiction

Castle Gay

John Buchan

1930

Paul Klee

Catalogues raisonnés · Psychology

Paul Klee

Paul Klee

1930

The Murder at the Vicarage

Women detectives · Fiction

The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie

1930

Confession of Zeno

Fiction · Physician and patient

Confession of Zeno

Italo Svevo

1930

Strong Poison

Women detectives · English Detective and mystery stories

Strong Poison

Dorothy L. Sayers

1930

Emil und die Detektive

German language · Readers

Emil und die Detektive

Erich Kästner

1930

On Forsyte 'Change

Fiction · Forsyte family (Fictitious characters)

On Forsyte 'Change

John Galsworthy

1930

1066 and All That

History · Humor

1066 and All That

Walter Carruthers Sellar

1930

Swallows and Amazons

Adventure and adventurers · Boats and boating

Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Michell Ransome

1930

Robbers' roost

Open Library Staff Picks · Fiction

Robbers' roost

Zane Grey

1930

Vile Bodies

Fiction · Social life and customs

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

1930

Diary of a provincial lady

Humorous stories · London (england), social life and customs

Diary of a provincial lady

E. M. Delafield

1930

Last and First Men

Fiction, science fiction, general · Fiction

Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon

1930

The scarab murder case

Fiction · Philo Vance (Fictitious character)

The scarab murder case

Willard Huntington Wright

1930

The mysterious Mr Quin

Mystery · English Detective and mystery stories

The mysterious Mr Quin

Agatha Christie

1930

War in heaven

Fiction in English · supernatural

War in heaven

Charles Williams

1930

Growing up in New Guinea

Children · Education

Growing up in New Guinea

Margaret Mead

1930

Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies

Tragedies · Criticism and interpretation

Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies

G. Wilson Knight

1930

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