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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19321934

1933

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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Baby Face

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

3.6

Baby Face

1933

King Kong

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

3.8

King Kong

1933

The Invisible Man

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

3.8

The Invisible Man

1933

Footlight Parade

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

3.4

Footlight Parade

1933

Zero for Conduct

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

3.4

Zero for Conduct

1933

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

3.8

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933

Duck Soup

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

3.7

Duck Soup

1933

I'm No Angel

Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.

3.2

I'm No Angel

1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

3.6

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933

42nd Street

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

3.5

42nd Street

1933

Sons of the Desert

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

3.5

Sons of the Desert

1933

Dinner at Eight

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

3.4

Dinner at Eight

1933

Little Women

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

3.4

Little Women

1933

She Done Him Wrong

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more male friends than can be imagined. One is a vicious escaped criminal on the way to see 'his' girl, unaware she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.

2.9

She Done Him Wrong

1933

Alice in Wonderland

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

3.1

Alice in Wonderland

1933

Three Little Pigs

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

3.4

Three Little Pigs

1933

A Night on Bald Mountain

Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?

3.1

A Night on Bald Mountain

1933

Ecstasy

Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

3.1

Ecstasy

1933

Hidden gems of 1933loved by the few who found them

Busy Bodies

In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.

3.7

Busy Bodies

1933

The Mad Doctor

A dark and stormy night. Pluto is spirited away to the spooky lair of an evil genius for a mad transplant scheme to put his head on the body of a chicken. Mickey gives chase, but find himself threatened severely by the doctor's castle and its denizens.

3.6

The Mad Doctor

1933

Design for Living

Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.

3.6

Design for Living

1933

Lady for a Day

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.

3.5

Lady for a Day

1933

Dirty Work

Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.

3.5

Dirty Work

1933

Snow-White

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.

3.4

Snow-White

1933

The Devil's Brother

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

3.4

The Devil's Brother

1933

Building a Building

Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work, and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants...

3.3

Building a Building

1933

The Pied Piper

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

3.3

The Pied Piper

1933

On the page

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Hearing on code of fair practices and competition

United States. National Recovery Administration

1933

Tender is the Night

Fiction · Psychiatrists

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1933

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie · Private investigator

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

1933

Hearing on code of fair practices and competition

United States. National Recovery Administration

1933

Black Colossus

American Fantasy fiction · Conan (Fictitious character)

Black Colossus

Robert E. Howard

1933

Lost Horizon

Fiction · Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks

Lost Horizon

James Hilton

1933

Down and Out in Paris and London

Poor · Literature

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

1933

La condition humaine

Fiction · History

La condition humaine

André Malraux

1933

Lord Edgware Dies

Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character) · Private investigators

Lord Edgware Dies

Agatha Christie

1933

The Red Pony

Horses · Horse

The Red Pony

John Steinbeck

1933

Burn, witch, burn!

Fiction, mystery & detective, general · Fiction, thrillers, general

Burn, witch, burn!

A. Merritt

1933

The mis-education of the Negro

African Americans · Discrimination in education

The mis-education of the Negro

Carter Godwin Woodson

1933

Murder Must Advertise

Fiction · Private investigators

Murder Must Advertise

Dorothy L. Sayers

1933

Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft

Aeronautics · Space vehicles

Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft

Fred T. Jane

1933

San Manuel Bueno, mártir

Spanish language · Readers

San Manuel Bueno, mártir

Miguel de Unamuno

1933

A prince of the captivity

Fiction, historical · Fiction, thrillers, general

A prince of the captivity

John Buchan

1933

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Intellectual life · Biography

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein

1933

The dragon murder case, a Philo Vance story

Fiction, mystery & detective, general · Vance, philo (fictitious character), fiction

The dragon murder case, a Philo Vance story

Willard Huntington Wright

1933

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