Some bad movies I've watched: The 30's
by cafg-0 | created - 29 Aug 2021 | updated - 8 months ago | PublicHollywood during its golden aged produced bad movies too.
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1. General Spanky (1936)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Family, War
A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.
Directors: Gordon Douglas, Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: George 'Spanky' McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Ralph Morgan, Irving Pichel
Votes: 435
2. The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
97 min | Comedy, Musical
Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Lyda Roberti
Votes: 347
3. Broadway Hostess (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A woman becomes a successful singer, but can't do as well in love.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Wini Shaw, Genevieve Tobin, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 422
4. Breaking the Ice (1938)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene and performs lively tunes to make a living.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bobby Breen, Charles Ruggles, Dolores Costello, Irene Dare
Votes: 162
5. Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York and gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Kenny Baker, Frank McHugh, Alice Brady, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 270
6. Under Western Stars (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Western
Roy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Maple City Four
Votes: 425
7. Dancing Pirate (1936)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni
Votes: 385
8. Hitting a New High (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lili Pons and Jack Oakie star as a nightclub singer with aspires to be an opera diva and the met star whom she chases all the way to a safari in Africa to make her dreams come true in this wacky musical comedy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, John Howard, Eric Blore
Votes: 342
9. Girls' School (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A student monitor at a girls' school faces the scorn of her fellow pupils when she reports one of the popular girls for staying out late.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Moore
Votes: 231
10. Way Down South (1939)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Music
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt ... See full summary »
Directors: Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Steffi Duna
Votes: 254
11. Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Gangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Phil Regan, Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, Tamara Geva
Votes: 179
12. She Married a Cop (1939)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Musical
At the New York branch of Mammoth Studios, motion picture animator Linda Fay and her boss, Bob Adams, search for a singing voice for their star cartoon, "Paddy the Pig." Linda holds ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Sidney Salkow, Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: Phil Regan, Jean Parker, Jerome Cowan, Dorothea Kent
Votes: 81
13. That Girl from Paris (1936)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Gene Raymond, Herman Bing
Votes: 372
14. Curly Top (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Family, Musical, Romance
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell
Votes: 2,110
15. The Vagabond King (1930)
104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth
Votes: 230
16. Up the River (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 1,376
17. $1000 a Minute (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 198
18. Going Places (1938)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 430
19. Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Nightclub singer Joan Warren's agent Nicky puts her into situations designed to advance her career.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Ted Healy
Votes: 148
20. Army Girl (1938)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A fight to keep cavalry horses from being replaced by tanks culminates in a great race between machine and beast.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Madge Evans, Preston Foster, Neil Hamilton, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 113
21. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Andy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
Votes: 2,056
22. The Struggle (1931)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charlotte Wynters, Evelyn Baldwin
Votes: 376
23. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Family
Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang
Votes: 1,939
24. The Magnificent Brute (1936)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance
The foreman of a blast furnace gets involved in a romantic triangle and stolen money.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, William Hall
Votes: 73
25. One in a Million (1936)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Music
American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Ned Sparks
Votes: 337 | Gross: $2.00M
26. Skippy (1931)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl
Votes: 1,001
27. Make a Wish (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother and Rathbone.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone, Marion Claire, Henry Armetta
Votes: 209
28. The Three Musketeers (1939)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
D'Artagnan sings and fronts for slapstick cowardly Ritz brothers posing as musketeers.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers, Binnie Barnes, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 686
29. Balalaika (1939)
Approved | 102 min | Musical, Romance
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan
Votes: 356 | Gross: $0.25M
30. Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two songwriters want to cast a British star in their new show.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 323
31. Sanders of the River (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney, Robert Cochran
Votes: 732
32. 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: 5,438
33. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone
Votes: 1,365
34. The Lady Objects (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Ann Adams and William Hayward get married and she has a secretary's job in a law office, while finishing her schooling, and she soon makes junior partner and is just a brilliant lawyer. ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Lanny Ross, Gloria Stuart, Joan Marsh, Roy Benson
Votes: 156
35. Tropic Holiday (1938)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A Hollywood screenwriter looking for inspiration for his next film goes to Mexico, where he runs into a beautiful Mexican girl who sets her sights on him.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Bob Burns, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Martha Raye
Votes: 111
36. Something to Sing About (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical
A New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie
Votes: 1,023
37. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 1,010
38. The Skin Game (1931)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C.V. France, Helen Haye
Votes: 3,558
39. 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: 848
40. The Garden of Allah (1936)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 1,708
41. Thin Ice (1937)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Swiss hotel's ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 442
42. Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western
Susannah is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Seiter, Walter Lang | Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Martin Good Rider
Votes: 996
43. Maid of Salem (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th-century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 435
44. Now and Forever (1934)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A swindler and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with the family of his deceased wife.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing
Votes: 1,158
45. Judge Priest (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 2,520
46. All the King's Horses (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Movie star changes places with a king who looks exactly like him, causing complications for all concerned.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Carl Brisson, Mary Ellis, Edward Everett Horton, Katherine DeMille
Votes: 147
47. Pacific Liner (1939)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale
Votes: 332
48. I Dream Too Much (1935)
Passed | 97 min | Musical, Romance
Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 634
49. Der Herrscher (1937)
103 min | Drama
Mathias Clausen is a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Emil Jannings, Paul Wagner, Hannes Stelzer, Hilde Körber
Votes: 86
50. Storm Over Bengal (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In British India a local rajah, a British ally, is dying and his subordinates plan to drive out the British once he's gone. A newly married British officer is dispatched to ensure that doesn't happen.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 113
51. Captain Fury (1939)
Passed | 92 min | Western
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landowner.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang
Votes: 324
52. 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
53. Jamaica Inn (1939)
Passed | 98 min | Adventure, Crime
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges
Votes: 11,196
54. Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems after he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
Votes: 705
55. You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Approved | 96 min | Music, Romance
Hal Adams tries to win the heart of Broadway star Betty Bradley.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Alice Faye, George Murphy, Ken Murray, Charles Winninger
Votes: 145
56. Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Family, Musical
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 952
57. She Loves Me Not (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent
Votes: 217
58. That Certain Age (1938)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
A teenage girl clashes with her newspaper publisher father's star reporter while he stays in their country guest house, but soon finds herself falling in love with him.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich
Votes: 408
59. Varsity Show (1937)
Approved | 120 min | Musical, Romance
A former student who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student stage show.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Dick Powell, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Ted Healy, Rosemary Lane
Votes: 501
60. Vogues of 1938 (1937)
Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The blueblooded Van Kletterings are broke; debutante Wendy, slated to remedy this by marrying rich bore Henry Morgan, instead leaves him at the altar and goes to work as a model for ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson, Mischa Auer
Votes: 321
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