1932 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1932, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Sherlock Holmes
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
Country: United States of America
Outline: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Frankenstein
Directed by: Bernard Rose
Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss, Xavier Samuel, Danny Huston, Tony Todd
Country: United States of America
Public Enemies
Directed by: Michael Mann
Starring: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Horse Feathers
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers
Country: United States of America
Outline: Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.
Grand Hotel
Directed by: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Country: United States of America
Outline: A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
The Sign of the Cross
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Country: United States of America
Outline: A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Strange Interlude
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Starring: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan
Outline: After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Country: United States of America
Outline: Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Freaks
Directed by: Tod Browning
Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates
Country: United States of America
Outline: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Scarface
Directed by: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
Country: United States of America
Outline: An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Love Me Tonight
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Country: United States of America
Outline: A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Blondie of the Follies
Directed by: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove, Jimmy Durante
Outline: Two young women find their friendship strained when one wins a role in a Broadway show, and the other's boyfriend begins to fall for her.
What Price Hollywood?
Directed by: George Cukor
Starring: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff
Outline: The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer.
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Starring: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret
Country: United States of America
Outline: A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
Island of Lost Souls
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Starring: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Country: United States of America
Outline: An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Red Dust
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor
Country: United States of America
Outline: The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
Mystery Ranch
Directed by: David Howard
Starring: George O'Brien, Cecilia Parker, Charles Middleton, Charles Stevens
Outline: An undercover ranger investigates a deranged rancher who acts as a law unto himself, finding a girl held as a prisoner until she agrees to marry the madman.
The Old Dark House
Directed by: James Whale
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart
Country: United States of America
Outline: Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Three on a Match
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis
Country: United States of America
Outline: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Are You Listening?
Directed by: Harry Beaumont
Starring: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page, Karen Morley
Outline: A radio writer/producer accidentally kills his wife and then attempts to escape an on-air hunt for him.
The Most Dangerous Game
Directed by: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Country: United States of America
Outline: An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
Blonde Venus
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore
Country: United States of America
Outline: A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation.
The Mummy
Directed by: Karl Freund
Starring: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron
Country: United States of America
Outline: A living mummy stalks the beautiful woman he believes is the reincarnation of his lover.
Blessed Event
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins
Outline: Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who...
Red-Headed Woman
Directed by: Jack Conway
Starring: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams
Country: United States of America
Outline: Lillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man.
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