1930 Movies

All Quiet on the Western Front

Directed by: Lewis Milestone

Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

The Dawn Patrol

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Whoopee!

Directed by: Thornton Freeland

Starring: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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...

Check and Double Check

Directed by: Melville W. Brown

Starring: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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....

Sweethearts on Parade

Directed by: Marshall Neilan

Starring: Alice White, Lloyd Hughes, Marie Prevost, Kenneth Thomson

Outline: Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.

The Blue Angel

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti

Outline: The Blue Angel is a sleazy bar and the local boys go there to see Lola who is the dancer. The teacher goes there to confront his students only to fall for the dancer.

Way Out West

Directed by: Fred Niblo

Starring: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Cliff Edwards

Outline: Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner...

City Girl

Directed by: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke

Country: United States of America

Outline: A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

The Blue Angel

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti

Country: United States of America

Outline: An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Betty Boop

Directed by: 42 Cartoons

Outline: Betty Boop is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. She first appeared in 1930 in "Dizzy Dishes," an installment of creator Max Fleischer's "Talkartoon" series, but soon ...

Animal Crackers

Directed by: Victor Heerman

Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers

Country: United States of America

Outline: Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

The Girl Said No

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler

Outline: 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.

Way for a Sailor

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Jim Tully, Leila Hyams

Outline: Jack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports. The one girl he tries to impress the most is in London and...

Earth

Directed by: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Starring: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova

Country: United States of America

Outline: In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

L'Age d'Or

Directed by: Luis Buñuel

Starring: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Little Caesar

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.

Country: United States of America

Outline: A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

Morocco

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Starring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt

Country: United States of America

Outline: A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

The Light of Western Stars

Directed by: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf

Starring: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Harry Green, Regis Toomey

Outline: A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ...

Spring Is Here

Directed by: John Francis Dillon

Starring: Lawrence Gray, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Louise Fazenda

Outline: Betty a young woman is going steady with Terry but falls for an exciting new comer to town Steve. Betty's father wants her to marry Terry but she doesn't see that she actually is in love ...

Show Girl in Hollywood

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling

Outline: '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, promises ...

The Silent Enemy

Directed by: H.P. Carver

Starring: Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud

Outline: A documentary about the life of Indians in Northern Canada.

Anna Christie

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.

The Texan

Directed by: John Cromwell

Starring: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel

Outline: An outlaw, the Llano Kid is the scourge of south Texas and a Bible quoting lawman named Thacker. The kid joins a con man in a plot to deceive a wealthy old woman that he's her long-lost son...

Liliom

Directed by: Frank Borzage

Starring: Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner

Outline: 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...

For the Defense

Directed by: John Cromwell

Starring: William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk, William B. Davidson

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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 ...