31. Horse Feathers
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau
Plot: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff finds himself the new president of Huxley College. His son, Frank, wants nothing more than the college to beat rival Darwin in the big game. He convinces Wagstaff to recruit to ringers, but instead is beaten to punch by Darwin and instead is left with two misfits: Baravelli and Pinky. But he comes up with another plan to win the big game.
32. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Paul Muni, Helen Vinson, Allen Jenkins, Glenda Farrell, Edward Ellis, Hale Hamilton
Plot: Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
33. The Maltese Falcon
Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd
Plot: P.I. and a cast of shady characters seek the aforementioned statue. Pre-dates the Bogart version, but a good adaptation nonetheless.
34. You Can't Take It with You
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Miller, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Plot: A couple decides to have their families meet - one a rich well to do tycoon, the other a zanny crazy off beat family - to which they insult each other and have no understanding of the others life and actions.
35. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal
Plot: Frollo, Chief Justice, becomes entralled by the gypsy Esmerelda and coerces the deformed Quasimodo to capture her. After being caught by captain of the guard Phoebus, he is flogged with only Esmerelda taking pity on him. Esmerelda and Phoebus meet, and when the man winds up dead, Frollo pins the murder on Esmerelda. Quasimodo makes it his mission to save the girl from death by hanging.
36. Libeled Lady
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Conway
Actors: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin
Plot: Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps
on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers
must face. When it is filed a 5 million dollars claim by Connie Allenbury
for having printed she is a marriage-breaker, he organizes the
unconsummated marriage of Gladys and the don Juan Bill Chandler. The goal
is to catch Connie alone with a married man.
37. Angels with Dirty Faces
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop
Plot: A priest tries to stop his old friend, a gangster, from corrupting a gang
of teens any further than they already are.
38. Blue Angel, The ( blaue Engel, Der )
Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt
Plot: A bachelor professor finds out some of his students are frequenting a speakeasy in order to see Lola Lola, a popular dancer at the Blue Angel establishment. Yet in confronting his students, he himself becomes entranced by the woman, and his life begins to spiral out of control as her influence exerts its hold over him.
39. Bachelor Mother
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Garson Kanin
Actors: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive, Elbert Coplen Jr.
Plot: When Polly Parish goes looking for a new job she sees an woman leave a baby on the steps of a foundling home. Worried that the baby may roll off she picks it up, only to have the home think she is the mother. Despite her emphatic denial, the home contacts Merlin Jr. of Merlin and Son department store, where Polly was seasonally employed. Merlin rehires her so she can be reunited with her baby, but Polly refuses to be assigned a family and tries to return the baby to Merlin, causing another employee the mistaken idea that Merlin is the father. He then uses this information to blackmail his way to a promotion. Merlin Sr. then decides to take the baby away from Polly, but she has become quite attached. More mix-ups lead to a happy ending.
40. Queen Christina
Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot: The 17th Century Swedish monarch Queen Christina is beloved by the people and a loyal leader. Yet the one thing missing in her life is love. When she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, it will lead her to a decision whether to keep her throne or follow her heart.
