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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19311933

1932

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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Freaks

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

3.9

Freaks

1932

Scarface

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

3.7

Scarface

1932

Tarzan the Ape Man

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.

3.3

Tarzan the Ape Man

1932

A Farewell to Arms

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.

3.1

A Farewell to Arms

1932

The Mummy

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

3.4

The Mummy

1932

Shanghai Express

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

3.5

Shanghai Express

1932

Grand Hotel

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

3.5

Grand Hotel

1932

Love Me Tonight

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

3.3

Love Me Tonight

1932

The Most Dangerous Game

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

3.5

The Most Dangerous Game

1932

Trouble in Paradise

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

3.7

Trouble in Paradise

1932

Island of Lost Souls

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

3.5

Island of Lost Souls

1932

The Mask of Fu Manchu

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

2.7

The Mask of Fu Manchu

1932

Wooden Crosses

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

3.5

Wooden Crosses

1932

Doctor X

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

3.0

Doctor X

1932

White Zombie

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

3.0

White Zombie

1932

Murders in the Rue Morgue

In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

3.0

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1932

I Was Born, But...

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.

3.8

I Was Born, But...

1932

Vampyr

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

3.6

Vampyr

1932

What the critics kept

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The Old Dark House

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

3.4

The Old Dark House

1932

Hidden gems of 1932loved by the few who found them

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

3.9

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932

The Music Box

The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.

3.8

The Music Box

1932

Fanny

Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse.

3.8

Fanny

1932

One Way Passage

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

3.7

One Way Passage

1932

Helpmates

Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.

3.6

Helpmates

1932

The Blood of a Poet

In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.

3.5

The Blood of a Poet

1932

Towed in a Hole

Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

3.5

Towed in a Hole

1932

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.

3.5

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

Red Dust

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.

3.5

Red Dust

1932

Horse Feathers

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

3.5

Horse Feathers

1932

Flowers and Trees

A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.

3.4

Flowers and Trees

1932

County Hospital

Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

3.4

County Hospital

1932

On the page

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Brave New World

Utopias · Brainwashing

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1932

The Wendigo

Fiction, action & adventure · Fiction, horror

The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood

1932

Little House in the Big Woods

Juvenile fiction · Ficción juvenil

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1932

Voyage au bout de la nuit

Fiction, short stories (single author) · Novela francesa

Voyage au bout de la nuit

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1932

Peril at End House

Captain Hastings (Fictitious character) · English Detective and mystery stories

Peril at End House

Agatha Christie

1932

The Thirteen Problems

Jane Marple (Fictitious character) · Fiction

The Thirteen Problems

Agatha Christie

1932

The Magic Walking-Stick

Adventure and adventurers · Adventure stories

The Magic Walking-Stick

John Buchan

1932

Picasso

Animals in art · Art

Picasso

William S. Lieberman

1932

Topper Takes a Trip

Executives · Ghost stories

Topper Takes a Trip

Thorne Smith

1932

Radetzkymarsch

Fiction · History

Radetzkymarsch

Joseph Roth

1932

Flowering Wilderness (Forsyte Chronicles)

Fiction · Forsyte family (Fictitious characters)

Flowering Wilderness (Forsyte Chronicles)

John Galsworthy

1932

Obscure Destinies

Social life and customs · Fiction

Obscure Destinies

Willa Cather

1932

Have his carcase

Fiction · Private investigators

Have his carcase

Dorothy L. Sayers

1932

Mr. Reeder returns

Fiction in English · English Detective and mystery stories

Mr. Reeder returns

Edgar Wallace

1932

The Pastures of Heaven

Fiction · Farm life

The Pastures of Heaven

John Steinbeck

1932

Cold Comfort Farm

Fiction, humorous, general · Fiction, family life

Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

1932

Studs Lonigan

American history · Chicago

Studs Lonigan

James T. Farrell

1932

Dwellers in the Mirage

Cherokee Indians · Fiction

Dwellers in the Mirage

A. Merritt

1932

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