... The Forgettable ... Of The 1930s
by Akira_Chimera | created - 12 Jul 2011 | updated - 15 Jul 2022 | PublicFirst of all, most movies on this list are not really bad. But they are not good either. In order not to bore you with every average movie I have seen I will restrain myself only to those of interest. That means you will find movies here that were successful at the box office but did not deserve that undue success or movies that did not stand the test of time. Other entries concern movies that are acclaimed by critics but to me are nothing short of being pretentious. Other titles could include films that were much talked about for whatever reason upon their initial release and therefore hold some kind of reputation that, however, do not qualify them for quality movies. You may also find movies here to which famous actors or directors contributed to but which are a let-down in the end nevertheless.
So, have fun browsing through my selection of the odds and sods of the movie world and let me know what you think.
PS: This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.
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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: 1,706
2. 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: 229
3. Outside the Law (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes
Votes: 225
4. Only the Brave (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A Union captain (Gary Cooper) in the Civil War volunteers for spy duty, then meets and falls for a Southern belle (Mary Brian).
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Gary Cooper, Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, James Neill
Votes: 112
5. A Man from Wyoming (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
When World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey, Morgan Farley
Votes: 100
6. 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: 673
7. 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: 1,320
8. 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
9. 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: 675
10. The Texan (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Romance, Western
An outlaw and con-man's plan to bilk an old woman out of a fortune takes an unexpected turn.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel
Votes: 229
11. 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
12. Seven Days Leave (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Based on J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," about a young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore, Nora Cecil
Votes: 146
13. The Man from Blankley's (1930)
67 min | Comedy
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: John Barrymore, Loretta Young, William Austin, Albert Gran
Votes: 94
14. Her Wedding Night (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 65
15. One Romantic Night (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler
Votes: 465
16. Shadow of the Law (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: William Powell, Marion Shilling, Natalie Moorhead, Regis Toomey
Votes: 177
17. The Widow from Chicago (1930)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Vice lord Dominic has brought Swifty Dorgan east to do a job for him. When Swifty appears to have died falling from a train, detective Henderson impersonates him hoping to get into the mob.... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Alice White, Edward G. Robinson, Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh
Votes: 431
18. Night Work (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
As assistant window-dresser, Willie is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult to injury, he is also the store's designated "Fired Man": when a disgruntled ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Sally Starr, Frances Upton, Tom Keene
Votes: 124
19. Madam Satan (1930)
Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young
Votes: 1,244 | Gross: $0.50M
20. 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
21. Lonely Wives (1931)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A lonely husband whose wife has been away hires a lookalike impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. Confusion prevails when his wife returns that evening.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller
Votes: 473
22. 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: 3,500 | Gross: $1.01M
23. The Office Wife (1930)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Romance
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more ... See full summary »
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 492
24. 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: 292
25. Renegades (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye
Votes: 328
26. 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: 4,337
27. 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
28. 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: 3,648
29. 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: 259
30. The Silver Horde (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 626
31. They Learned About Women (1930)
Passed | 95 min | Musical, Drama
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Bessie Love, Mary Doran
Votes: 266
32. Not So Dumb (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, Elliott Nugent, Raymond Hackett, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 1,147
33. Nights of Love (1930)
80 min | Comedy
During a railway journey, Baron van Geldern meets an attractive young woman Evelyne in the same carriage. After the train is derailed, they spend a night together at a hotel, and he falls ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Sauer | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Willi Forst, Albert Hörrmann, Otto Kronburger
Votes: 53
34. The Unholy Three (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
"Talkie" remake of Tod Browning's 1925 silent film. A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles
Votes: 1,392
35. Romance (1930)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love, so Armstrong tells him the story of... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent
Votes: 1,032 | Gross: $1.60M
36. 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
37. Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
Passed | 88 min | Music, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle
Votes: 189
38. 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: 510
39. 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
40. 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
41. Monte Carlo (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 1,427
42. Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling
Votes: 406
43. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
Directors: George Cukor, Cyril Gardner | Stars: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman
Votes: 437
44. Sarah and Son (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery
Votes: 334
45. 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
46. Reaching for the Moon (1930)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Wall Street wizard Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Claud Allister
Votes: 490
47. 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
48. 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: 422
49. Wild Company (1930)
71 min | Crime, Drama
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn, H.B. Warner
Votes: 85
50. Sunny Skies (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Rex Lease is the football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life..but his naive comical roommate (Benny Rubin) remains his steadfast supporter. ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Benny Rubin, Marceline Day, Rex Lease, Marjorie Kane
Votes: 120
51. Our Blushing Brides (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Three department-store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than $20 per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 924
52. Rain or Shine (1930)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 459
53. Westfront 1918 (1930)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen
Votes: 2,415
54. Paid (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 804
55. Raffles (1930)
72 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "... See full summary »
Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 1,118 | Gross: $1.00M
56. 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: 2,590
57. Murder! (1930)
TV-PG | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman
Votes: 6,909
58. Inside the Lines (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, War
During World War 1, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Director: Roy Pomeroy | Stars: Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, Montagu Love, Ivan F. Simpson
Votes: 173
59. Scotland Yard (1930)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During World War I, criminal Dakin Barrolles, fleeing a bank robbery gone awry, has a chance meeting with a rich, drunken banker and his wife. Fascinated by the kind of people he would ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Joan Bennett, Donald Crisp, Georges Renavent
Votes: 90
60. 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
61. Tol'able David (1930)
65 min | Drama
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, Joan Peers, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 44
62. The Fall Guy (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a hapless pharmacist loses his job and falls in with criminals, he's soon made The Fall Guy. Unemployed, Johnny Quinlan (Jack Mulhall) starts doing jobs for underworld chieftain Nifty ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Mae Clarke, Ned Sparks, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 200
63. Men Without Women (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Action, Drama
U.S. Navy divers race to save the crew of a foundered submarine as the sailors hopelessly prepare to die.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Kenneth MacKenna, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hymer
Votes: 407
64. 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
65. Three from the Filling Station (1930)
99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey, Heinz Rühmann, Oskar Karlweis
Votes: 877
66. 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: 413
67. 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: 846
68. 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: 1,610
69. 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: 324
70. 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: 1,387
71. Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Rita La Roy
Votes: 757
72. Moby Dick (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama
In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson
Votes: 641
73. Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930)
93 min | Adventure, Drama
In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the father ... See full summary »
Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet, Mathias Wieman
Votes: 271
74. The Speckled Band (1931)
Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Lyn Harding, Raymond Massey, Angela Baddeley, Nancy Price
Votes: 309
75. Manslaughter (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Romance, Drama
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 264
76. Outward Bound (1930)
Unrated | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy
Later remade as "Between Two Worlds."
Directors: Robert Milton, Ray Enright | Stars: Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges
Votes: 620
77. 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
78. Min and Bill (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 1,896
79. 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
80. 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
81. Whoopee! (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt
Votes: 1,184
82. Oh, Sailor Behave! (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical
An American newspaper reporter is sent to Venice to interview a Romanian general. While there, he falls in love with a young heiress.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Irene Delroy, Charles King
Votes: 49
83. 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
84. True to the Navy (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A countergirl at a San Diego soda shop has a lot of sailor "boyfriends", but her heart really belongs to a free-spirited gunner, who doesn't want to be tied down to any one woman.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green, Rex Bell
Votes: 165
85. Liliom (1930)
94 min | Drama
Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at a Budapest amusement park, becomes enamored of Julie, a servant girl, and though under the influence of Madame Muskat, a sideshow entrepreneur, he marries... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner
Votes: 505
86. Montana Moon (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Western
A vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her 'Montana', and eventually clash over their different lifestyles, to the point of almost ending their marriage.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 611
87. Great Day (1930)
Musical
Directors: Harry Beaumont, Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan, Anita Page
Votes: 184
88. The Sins of the Children (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance
A German immigrant to a small American town is a barber with four children. He has saved enough money to invest in a savings-and-loan company with a friend. Unfortunately, one of his sons ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Louis Mann, Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams
Votes: 276
89. 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
90. 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
91. 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
92. Swing High (1930)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Musical
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns;... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Dorothy Burgess, John Sheehan
Votes: 63
93. Alexander Hamilton (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Biography, Drama, History
With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, June Collyer
Votes: 322 | Gross: $0.99M
94. Mata Hari (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone
Votes: 3,951 | Gross: $0.93M
95. The Public Defender (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal.... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston
Votes: 247
96. The Front Page (1931)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,442
97. Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell
Votes: 1,239
98. City Streets (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 1,870
99. The Night Angel (1931)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
American drama written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth and Alan Hale, Sr.. The film was released on July 18, 1931.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 88
100. The Exile (1931)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them,... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Eunice Brooks, Stanley Morrell, Celeste Cole, Kathleen Noisette
Votes: 189
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