Crate Digger Film Canon: All Films of the 30s
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1. Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, War
An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 1,709
2. The Golden Age (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Votes: 14,806 | Gross: $0.03M
3. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, War
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 67,667 | Gross: $3.27M
4. Along Came Youth (1930)
74 min | Comedy, Romance
Rare Paramount film, supposedly lost save for a partial nitrate, is typical boy chases girl film. Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Lloyd Corrigan, Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Frances Dee, Stuart Erwin, William Austin
Votes: 30
5. Alraune (1929)
103 min | Sci-Fi
A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Albert Bassermann, Harald Paulsen, Adolf E. Licho
Votes: 119
6. Animal Crackers (1930)
G | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers
Votes: 15,268 | Gross: $0.91M
7. Anna Christie (I) (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler
Votes: 3,503 | Gross: $1.01M
8. Anna Christie (II) (1930)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel
Votes: 938
9. À Propos de Nice (1930)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
Directors: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Votes: 4,629
10. Ladies' Paradise (1930)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant, Mireille Barsac
Votes: 576
11. The Bad Man (1930)
77 min | Western
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Walter Huston, Dorothy Revier, James Rennie, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 39
12. The Bat Whispers (1930)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Una Merkel, William Bakewell, Grayce Hampton
Votes: 1,147
13. The Benson Murder Case (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Paul Lukas
Votes: 461
14. Be Yourself! (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Musical
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, G. Pat Collins
Votes: 227
15. Big Boy (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, Claudia Dell, Louise Closser Hale, Lloyd Hughes
Votes: 130
16. The Big House (1930)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
Directors: George W. Hill, Ward Wing | Stars: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 2,591
17. The Big Pond (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Frank Lyon, George Barbier
Votes: 325
18. The Big Trail (1930)
Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall
Votes: 4,339
19. Billy the Kid (1930)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Western
In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane
Votes: 462
20. The Blood of a Poet (1932)
Not Rated | 55 min | Fantasy
Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac
Votes: 7,365
21. Der blaue Engel (1930)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti
Votes: 16,291 | Gross: $0.08M
22. Borderline (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama
A negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
Director: Kenneth MacPherson | Stars: Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson, Hilda Doolittle, Gavin Arthur
Votes: 576
23. Born Reckless (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, War
Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan, Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 562
24. Bright Lights (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Daphne Pollard
Votes: 381
25. Call of the Flesh (1930)
Passed | 100 min | Musical, Romance
Juan de Dios, from a poor working-class background, is a cantina performer in Seville, singing and dancing with his partner Lola. They have a contentious professional and personal ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 211
26. Captain Thunder (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
Victor Varconi plays a charming Mexican bandit gets involved in several conflicting paradoxical relations, including an alliance with a crooked rival bandit and a beautiful daughter of the governor.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Fay Wray, Victor Varconi, Charles Judels, Robert Elliott
Votes: 205
27. Caught Short (1930)
75 min | Comedy
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Charles Morton
28. Charley's Aunt (1930)
Unrated | 88 min | Comedy
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Charles Ruggles, June Collyer, Doris Lloyd, Halliwell Hobbes
Votes: 145
29. Chasing Rainbows (1930)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny, George K. Arthur
Votes: 270
30. Check and Double Check (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy
Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.... See full summary »
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich
Votes: 434
31. Children of Pleasure (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Successful songwriter falls for society girl who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his girl-Friday is the one he really loves until it is almost too late. Although he is ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Lawrence Gray, Wynne Gibson, Judith Wood, Kenneth Thomson
Votes: 192
32. City Girl (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke
Votes: 3,728
33. Common Clay (1930)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family and falls in love with their handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lew Ayres, Tully Marshall, Matty Kemp
Votes: 73
34. The Criminal Code (1930)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff
Votes: 1,379
35. The Cuckoos (1930)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Musical
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Jobyna Howland
Votes: 262
36. Czar of Broadway (1930)
79 min | Crime, Drama
A reporter is assigned to do a story on a notorious racketeer.
Director: William James Craft | Stars: John Wray, Betty Compson, John Harron, Claud Allister
Votes: 25
37. Danger Lights (1930)
Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Drama
The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 638
38. Dangerous Paradise (1930)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 151
39. Dans la nuit (1930)
75 min | Drama
A pit worker is crippled by an accident and his wife flirts with another man.
Director: Charles Vanel | Stars: Charles Vanel, Sandra Milovanoff, Christiane Tourneur
Votes: 242
40. Liebling der Götter (1930)
112 min | Comedy
The tenor Albert Winkelmann is a celebrated artist, admired for his singing and for his effect on women. He is a "Darling of the Gods". His wife Agathe sees the bohemian spouse's preference for the "weaker sex" with some concern.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Emil Jannings, Renate Müller, Olga Tschechowa, Hans Moser
Votes: 49
*Darling of the Gods
41. The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Passed | 108 min | Action, Drama, War
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Votes: 2,031
42. The Devil to Pay! (1930)
TV-G | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, David Torrence
Votes: 813
43. A Devil with Women (1930)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart, Luana Alcañiz
Votes: 98
44. The Devil's Holiday (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 256
45. The Divorcee (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Romance, Drama
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 3,653
46. Dixiana (1930)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
Votes: 423
47. The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Dorothy Mathews, Leon Janney
Votes: 1,323
48. Doughboys (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards, Edward Brophy
Votes: 531
49. Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Romance, Drama
A French milliner becomes a casino hostess and courtesan, eventually rising to the position of mistress of King Louis XV.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Norma Talmadge, William Farnum, Conrad Nagel, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 110
50. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,401
51. East Is West (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Lupe Velez, Lew Ayres, Edward G. Robinson, E. Alyn Warren
Votes: 71
52. Elstree Calling (1930)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
A series of nineteen musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself). There are two "running gags" which connect the ... See full summary »
Directors: André Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, Adrian Brunel, Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tommy Handley, Gordon Begg, Teddy Brown, Helen Burnell
Votes: 549
53. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,049
54. Escape! (1930)
68 min | Crime, Drama
A convict escapes from a prison.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Gerald du Maurier, Mabel Poulton, Ian Hunter, Gordon Harker
Votes: 109
55. Fast and Loose (1930)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, Frank Morgan, Charles Starrett
Votes: 308
56. Feet First (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 1,193 | Gross: $1.59M
57. The Flirting Widow (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Phyllis wants to marry Bobby, but Father won't permit it until older sister Celia weds. So Celia invents a military fiancée in Arabia, unimaginatively christens him John Smith, writes him a... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, William Austin
Votes: 293
58. The Florodora Girl (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
A New York chorus girl's friends encourage her to pursue a handsome socialite.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett, Louis John Bartels
Votes: 1,385
59. Follow the Leader (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Lou Holtz
Votes: 132
60. Follow Thru (1930)
92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Club champion Lora Moore loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend Jack Martin show up. Lora takes him on as her golf... See full summary »
Directors: Lloyd Corrigan, Laurence Schwab | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley
Votes: 261
61. For the Defense (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk, William B. Davidson
Votes: 676
62. Free and Easy (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 1,025
63. The Girl Said No (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler
Votes: 867
64. Going Wild (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach, where air ace and writer Robert Story is supposed to stop--and since nobody knows what Story looks like, they mistake ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Lawrence Gray, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 217
65. Golden Dawn (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
"Golden Dawn" is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers, photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Walter Woolf King and Noah Beery. The film is based on the semi-hit stage... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Walter Woolf King, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle
Votes: 170
66. Good News (I) (1930)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical
Tom Marlowe is the star of his college football team and has a promising romance with a female college student, Connie Lane. However, he does not excel in his college studies. A series of ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Mary Lawlor, Stanley Smith, Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 369
67. The Green Goddess (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure
An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, H.B. Warner, Alice Joyce
Votes: 440
68. Half Shot at Sunrise (1930)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical
The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, George MacFarlane
Votes: 389
69. Hell's Angels (1930)
Passed | 127 min | Drama, War
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
Directors: Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale | Stars: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow
Votes: 5,964 | Gross: $5.45M
70. Hellbound Train (1930)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
If you listen to jazz, you will go to Hell, where the scorching fires of torment are mighty and endless.
Directors: Eloyce Gist, James Gist
Votes: 291
71. Her Man (1930)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason
Votes: 511
72. High Society Blues (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Music, Romance
When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier Sr., Hedda Hopper
Votes: 31
73. Hold Everything (1930)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Winnie Lightner, Georges Carpentier, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 35
74. Holiday (1930)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Holiday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Hallam Cooley
Votes: 679
75. Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde
Votes: 405 | Gross: $1.70M
76. I Flunked, But... (1930)
65 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Kaoru Futaba, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomio Aoki
Votes: 563
77. Ingagi (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch ... See full summary »
Director: William Campbell | Stars: Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton, Louis Nizor
Votes: 212 | Gross: $4.00M
78. Journey's End (1930)
Passed | 120 min | Drama, War
In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners, Billy Bevan
Votes: 380
79. Juno and the Paycock (1929)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill
Votes: 2,535
80. Just Imagine (1930)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ...... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White
Votes: 849
81. King of Jazz (1930)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.
Directors: John Murray Anderson, Walter Lantz | Stars: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff
Votes: 1,612
82. Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Fredric March, Stanley Fields
Votes: 138
83. Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman, Marie Prevost
Votes: 1,390
84. The Lady of Scandal (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 260
85. A Lady to Love (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena, enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother Buck. When she gets there, she ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Vilma Bánky, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Richard Carle
Votes: 282
86. A Lady's Morals (1930)
Passed | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Largely fictionalized biopic of turn-of-the-century nightingale Jenny Lind, highlighted by her true-to-life intersection with showman P.T. Barnum.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Wallace Beery, Jobyna Howland
Votes: 150
87. The Lash (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Don Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, Fred Kohler, Marian Nixon
Votes: 173
88. Laughter (1930)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.
Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Glenn Anders
Votes: 416
89. Leathernecking (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Film version of the 1928 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical "Present Arms" concerning Chick Evans, a Marine private in Honolulu who falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon and schemes ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ned Sparks
Votes: 47
90. Let Us Be Gay (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery
Votes: 627
91. Let's Go Native (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, James Hall
Votes: 161
92. Life Is Beautiful (1930)
96 min | Romance
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina, Mariya Belousova, Andrei Gorchilin
Votes: 102
93. The Life of the Party (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical
Two attractive female song-pluggers decide to become gold-diggers, with comic results.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 208
94. Liliom (1930)
94 min | Drama
Liliom learns his wife is pregnant and robs a bank. During the getaway, he is killed and given a chance to return to Earth. He quickly learns the only way to make his wife and daughter happy is to leave them with cherished memories.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner
Votes: 506
95. Little Accident (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Director: William James Craft | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Anita Page, Sally Blane, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 42
96. Loose Ankles (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Romance
In this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as wealthy socialite Ann Harper, who has inherited a fortune provided that the family is involved in no scandals appearing ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Wilde | Stars: Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Louise Fazenda, Otis Harlan
Votes: 541
97. Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tunesmith, a user and an out-and-out heel, puts the stories of his broken romances into song, turning old love letters into lyrics, and capitalizing on the death of his best friend to ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry Beaumont, William Nigh | Stars: Charles Kaley, Ethelind Terry, Marion Shilling, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 177
98. The Lottery Bride (1930)
TV-PG | 80 min | Musical, Romance
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, John Garrick, Joe E. Brown, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 194
99. Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 103
100. Love in the Rough (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When shipping clerk Jack Kelly is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin, J.C. Nugent
Votes: 247
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