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1. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 20,873 | Gross: $2.69M
*[BEST PICTURE]* *OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2. Shanghai Express (1932)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir
A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Votes: 10,321
[BEST PICTURE] *CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Lee Garmes
3. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Votes: 6,811
[BEST PICTURE]
*CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Charles Bryant Lang, Jr.
*SOUND RECORDING -- Paramount Studio Sound Department, Franklin B. Hansen, Sound Director
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Votes: 14,433 | Gross: $1.42M
[BEST PICTURE]
5. One Hour with You (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.
Directors: George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Lili Damita
Votes: 2,914
[BEST PICTURE]
6. Smilin' Through (1932)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 1,550 | Gross: $2.19M
[BEST PICTURE]
7. One Way Passage (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 4,444
*WRITING (Original Story) -- Robert Lord
8. The Music Box (1932)
Approved | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dinah, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 8,024
*SHORT SUBJECT (Comedy)-- Hal Roach, Producer
9. Flowers and Trees (1932)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Clarence Nash, Esther Campbell, Pinto Colvig, Marion Darlington
Votes: 3,785
*SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon) -- Walt Disney, Producer
10. What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 2,588
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
11. Emma (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy
Votes: 1,141 | Gross: $2.00M
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
12. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,697 | Gross: $5.97M
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
13. Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin | Stars: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,187
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
14. Lady and Gent (1932)
84 min | Drama, Sport
Fresh young boxer Buzz Kinney is just out of college. He's able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran becomes overconfident. Later, Buzz is a worn-out wreck with a broken nose and cauliflower ear.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, James Gleason
Votes: 234
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
15. Swing High (1932)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The Flying Codonas, fourth generation of a family of trapeze artists, practice and perform amazing feats high in the air. Close-up and slow motion photography show how it's done.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: The Flying Codonas, Pete Smith, Edward Codona, Lalo Codona
Votes: 192
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
16. It's Got Me Again! (1932)
7 min | Family, Musical, Animation
Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.
Director: Rudolf Ising | Star: The Rhythmettes
Votes: 653
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
17. The Loud Mouth (1932)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Matt McHugh, Marjorie Kane, Franklin Pangborn, Ray Cooke
Votes: 24
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
18. Screen Souvenirs (1932)
Short
Old silent movies were edited and given silly soundtracks in this Paramount short subject series that ran from1931 to 1934. Of interest is that some now lost films are included here and are at least partially saved.
Votes: 23
Nominated for 1 Oscar.
19. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 16,152 | Gross: $1.04M
20. Freaks (1932)
Not Rated | 64 min | Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 50,591 | Gross: $0.63M
21. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
PG-13 | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 14,010 | Gross: $0.97M
22. I Was Born, But... (1932)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Votes: 6,211
23. Scarface (1932)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 30,306
24. The Blue Light (1932)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.
Directors: Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer
Votes: 1,389
25. Vampyr (1932)
Not Rated | 75 min | Fantasy, Horror
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz
Votes: 20,514
26. The Mummy (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron
Votes: 30,121
27. The Beast of the City (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.89M
28. Behind the Mask (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Jack Holt, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, Claude King
Votes: 342
29. American Madness (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Mystery
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all during the same day.
Directors: Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill | Stars: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings
Votes: 2,262
30. The Living Dead (1932)
89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger, Eugen Klöpfer
Votes: 146
31. Blonde Venus (1932)
Passed | 93 min | Drama
A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore
Votes: 5,621
32. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
G | 68 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
Directors: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Votes: 3,712 | Gross: $0.82M
33. If I Had a Million (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft
Votes: 2,297
34. Call Her Savage (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Drama
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.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 902
35. Polly of the Circus (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance
After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 1,235
36. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,936
37. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames, Bert Roach
Votes: 5,260
38. Horse Feathers (1932)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers
Votes: 13,396
39. The Old Dark House (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 13,102 | Gross: $0.03M
40. White Zombie (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Horror
A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer
Votes: 11,652
41. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Votes: 10,902
42. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 8,213
43. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret
Votes: 6,206
44. Number 17 (1932)
TV-PG | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop
Votes: 5,437
45. Red Dust (1932)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor
Votes: 4,929 | Gross: $1.70M
46. Love Me Tonight (1932)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 4,625
47. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly
Votes: 4,302
48. Three on a Match (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William
Votes: 4,395
49. Queen Kelly (1932)
Passed | 101 min | Drama
A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.
Directors: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 3,362
50. Doctor X (1932)
Unrated | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster
Votes: 4,267 | Gross: $0.88M
51. Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams
Votes: 3,536
52. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 2,959
53. Rain (1932)
Passed | 94 min | Drama
A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Votes: 3,033 | Gross: $1.17M
54. Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, War
Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.
Directors: George Marshall, Ray McCarey, Harry Black, Lloyd French | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Jackie Lyn Dufton
Votes: 2,665
55. Helpmates (1932)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy
After a messy house party while his wife is away, Oliver asks Stanley to help him clean up the place, but free help isn't always a bargain.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns, Bob Callahan
Votes: 2,575
56. Towed in a Hole (1932)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy is not an easy task.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 2,470
57. County Hospital (1932)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy
In the hospital with a broken leg Ollie is visited by Stan, who brings him hard-boiled eggs, nuts, and total mayhem.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, May Wallace
Votes: 2,446
58. Santa's Workshop (1932)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Harriette Haddon, Allan Watson
Votes: 2,807
59. Jewel Robbery (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright
Votes: 2,545
60. Downstairs (1932)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
An amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Hedda Hopper
Votes: 1,858
61. The Dentist (1932)
Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short
An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.
Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 1,763
62. Fanny (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis
Votes: 1,924 | Gross: $0.02M
63. A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
A man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, David Manners
Votes: 1,908
64. Minnie the Moocher (1932)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cab Calloway, Billy Murray, William Pennell
Votes: 1,722
65. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
TV-G | 78 min | Drama
A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,879
66. So Big! (1932)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Romance
After Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis
Votes: 1,824
67. The Purchase Price (1932)
TV-PG | 68 min | Comedy, Drama
A torch singer becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,838
68. Movie Crazy (1932)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson, Louise Closser Hale
Votes: 1,669 | Gross: $1.44M
69. Forbidden (1932)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 1,700
70. Their First Mistake (1932)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Stan convinces Oliver to adopt a baby to placate his wife, but upon returning home with the infant, they find a process server with a divorce summons, leaving the two buffoons to care for the squealing baby.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 1,608
71. Wooden Crosses (1932)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War
World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos
Votes: 1,690
72. The Chimp (1932)
Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy
Two bumbling circus performers inadvertently help drive the circus into ruin and then end up in possession of a flea circus and an oversized chimp.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns, Baldwin Cooke
Votes: 1,502
73. Scram! (1932)
Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Commanded to "scram" out of town by a cantankerous judge, poor vagabonds, Stan and Ollie, slip into something more comfortable to spend the night at a sympathetic inebriate's home; however, is this the right house?
Directors: Ray McCarey, Lloyd French, Jack Lloyd | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer, Arthur Housman
Votes: 1,517
74. Thirteen Women (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Ursula plots to murder 12 women with her supernatural powers.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Myrna Loy
Votes: 1,869
75. The Crowd Roars (1932)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden
Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $1.14M
76. Bird of Paradise (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,576
77. Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical
Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 1,348 | Gross: $1.61M
78. Any Old Port! (1932)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
In need of funds, Hardy happens to meet an old friend, now a boxing promoter, and volunteers "Battling Laurel" as the team's prizefighter, only to discover their opponent in the ring is a fearsome old nemesis.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Long, Julie Bishop
Votes: 1,382
79. Hell's House (1932)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Frank Coghlan Jr.
Votes: 1,451
80. Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Mae Clarke
Votes: 1,416
81. No Man of Her Own (1932)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 1,689
82. Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Sport
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti
Votes: 1,460
83. The Dark Horse (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Jailbird is hired to lead a dimwitted candidate's campaign for governor.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Warren William, Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 1,373
84. Two Seconds (1932)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,300
85. The Man Who Played God (1932)
TV-G | 80 min | Drama, Romance
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming, André Luguet
Votes: 1,276
86. Union Depot (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,184
87. Broken Lullaby (1932)
Approved | 76 min | Drama
French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter
Votes: 1,528 | Gross: $1.78M
88. Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page
Votes: 924
89. Mickey's Good Deed (1932)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
On Christmas Eve, Mickey is forced to sell Pluto to a bratty rich kid in order to give some orphans presents.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Votes: 852
90. The Wet Parade (1932)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn
Votes: 582
91. Beauty and the Boss (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
An executive hires a mousy, plain woman as his secretary so she will not divert him from his work, but she still becomes determined to win his heart.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Marian Marsh, David Manners, Warren William, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 698
92. Man Wanted (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Andy Devine
Votes: 856
93. Night After Night (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West
Votes: 1,066
94. The Death Kiss (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray
Votes: 1,418
95. This Is the Night (1932)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
An affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from the Summer Olympics.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Lili Damita
Votes: 960
96. Back Street (1932)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 1,070 | Gross: $1.96M
97. The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on a play by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man trying to justify his love for both his wife and his mistress.
Directors: Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor | Stars: Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, William Gargan
Votes: 1,305
98. Sinners in the Sun (1932)
70 min | Drama, Romance
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Directors: Alexander Hall, David Burton, William C. de Mille | Stars: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 387
99. Arsène Lupin (1932)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A detective is tasked to capture an elusive thief called Arsene Lupin.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan
Votes: 1,277
100. Hot Saturday (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods
Votes: 1,374
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