1934 Movies

It Happened One Night

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Country: United States of America

Outline: A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.

The Gay Divorcee

Directed by: Mark Sandrich

Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton

Country: United States of America

Outline: An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets - and falls for - a dashing performer.

Treasure Island

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Starring: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger

Country: United States of America

Outline: Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Directed by: Sidney Franklin

Starring: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan

Country: United States of America

Outline: Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Judge Priest

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall

Country: United States of America

Outline: Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

Here Comes the Navy

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh

Outline: A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

Forsaking All Others

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth

Country: United States of America

Outline: Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.

Chained

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin

Country: United States of America

Outline: A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

Wheels of Destiny

Directed by: Alan James

Starring: Ken Maynard, Dorothy Dix, Philo McCullough, Frank Rice

Outline: Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later ...

The Thin Man

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton

Country: United States of America

Outline: Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.

Twentieth Century

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Country: United States of America

Outline: A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.

The Scarlet Empress

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser

Country: United States of America

Outline: A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

The Old Fashioned Way

Directed by: William Beaudine

Starring: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Outline: The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Directed by: Rowland V. Lee

Starring: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer

Country: United States of America

Outline: After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Directed by: Harold Young

Starring: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce

Country: United States of America

Outline: A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Cuesta abajo

Directed by: Louis J. Gasnier

Starring: Carlos Gardel, Mona Maris, Vicente Padula, Anita Campillo

Outline: Carlos Acosta (Carlos Gardel), tied to a flirty wife and in love with another girl, watches fate work out a solution that allows him to return to his real love after trips to Paris and New York City.

Little Man, What Now?

Directed by: Frank Borzage

Starring: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet

Outline: A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

The Captain Hates the Sea

Directed by: Lewis Milestone

Starring: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert

Outline: Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private ...

Babes in Toyland

Directed by: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry

Country: United States of America

Outline: Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's boogeymen are set on Toyland.

Charlie Chan in London

Directed by: Eugene Forde

Starring: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie

Outline: Charlie visits a wealthy country home in England. Suspects in the murder range from a housekeeper, to a stableman, to a lawyer.

Of Human Bondage

Directed by: John Cromwell

Starring: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Bright Eyes

Directed by: David Butler

Starring: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen

Country: United States of America

Outline: An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

The Wedding of Palo

Directed by: Friedrich Dalsheim

Starring: Thorvald Stauning, Herluf Zahle

Outline: The story tells of two Greenlandic men who are competing for the love of one woman.

El tango en Broadway

Directed by: Louis J. Gasnier

Starring: Carlos Gardel, Trini Ramos, Blanca Vischer, Vicente Padula

Outline: A light-hearted comedy of errors including some beautiful songs by inimitable Carlos Gardel style.

Death Takes a Holiday

Directed by: Mitchell Leisen

Starring: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Grim Reaper takes the form of a prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.