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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19331935

1934

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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It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

3.9

It Happened One Night

1934

Babes in Toyland

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

3.1

Babes in Toyland

1934

The Goddess

A young prostitute, who is trying to give her infant son a good start in life, must contend with a coercive pimp and the prejudices of others.

3.9

The Goddess

1934

Tarzan and His Mate

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

3.3

Tarzan and His Mate

1934

Treasure Island

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.

3.3

Treasure Island

1934

Queen Christina

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

3.5

Queen Christina

1934

The Man Who Knew Too Much

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

3.3

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1934

The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

3.7

The Thin Man

1934

The Gay Divorcee

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

3.4

The Gay Divorcee

1934

Maniac

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

2.0

Maniac

1934

Cleopatra

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

3.0

Cleopatra

1934

The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

3.2

The Big Bad Wolf

1934

The Scarlet Empress

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

3.5

The Scarlet Empress

1934

Imitation of Life

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

3.5

Imitation of Life

1934

The Black Cat

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

3.4

The Black Cat

1934

L'Atalante

Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.

3.7

L'Atalante

1934

Of Human Bondage

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

3.3

Of Human Bondage

1934

The Count of Monte Cristo

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

3.4

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934

Hidden gems of 1934loved by the few who found them

Them Thar Hills

Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.

3.7

Them Thar Hills

1934

A Story of Floating Weeds

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.

3.6

A Story of Floating Weeds

1934

Manhattan Melodrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

3.5

Manhattan Melodrama

1934

The Scarlet Pimpernel

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

3.5

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934

Twentieth Century

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

3.4

Twentieth Century

1934

The Merry Widow

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

3.4

The Merry Widow

1934

The Wise Little Hen

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.

3.3

The Wise Little Hen

1934

On the page

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Right Ho, Jeeves

Bertie Wooster (Fictitious character) · Valets

Right Ho, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

1934

The Free Fishers

Fiction · History

The Free Fishers

John Buchan

1934

Henry Moore

Sculpture, British · Catalogues raisonnés

Henry Moore

David Sylvester

1934

Burmese Days

Imperialismo · Fiction

Burmese Days

George Orwell

1934

Lust for Life

Open Library Staff Picks · Fiction

Lust for Life

Irving Stone

1934

Goodbye Mister Chips

Schools · Fiction

Goodbye Mister Chips

James Hilton

1934

Murder in Three Acts

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Murder in Three Acts

Agatha Christie

1934

Creep, shadow!

American Science fiction

Creep, shadow!

A. Merritt

1934

Murder in the Cathedral

Drama · Canterbury Cathedral

Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot

1934

Tropic of Cancer

Autobiographical fiction · Fiction

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

1934

Why Didn't they Ask Evans?

English Detective and mystery stories · Lectures et morceaux choisis

Why Didn't they Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie

1934

A Handful of Dust

Adultery · Fiction

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

1934

Code of the West

Western stories · Large type books

Code of the West

Zane Grey

1934

The Casino Murder Case

Fiction · Philo Vance (Fictitious character)

The Casino Murder Case

Willard Huntington Wright

1934

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Fiction, historical, general · Fathers and sons, fiction

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

George Horace Lorimer

1934

The Nine Tailors

Fiction · Private investigators

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers

1934

Captain Nicholas

Families · Fiction

Captain Nicholas

Hugh Walpole

1934

Les cigares du pharaon

series:Les Aventures de Tintin · Novela gráfica

Les cigares du pharaon

Hergé

1934

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