1. Freaks
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles
Plot: A beautiful "big" woman marries a handsome "little" man. But, when money gets in the way things start to go wrong.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Grand Hotel
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Edmund Goulding
Actors: John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Purnell Pratt
Plot: The lives of several guests collide at the Grand Hotel, where "nothing ever happens."
5. Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard
6. Scarface
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Boris Karloff, Edwin Maxwell
Plot: An emigrant during prohibition climbs up the chain of command in the mob
business to become a ruthless gangster only to be brought down by what
brought him to the top.
7. Island of Lost Souls
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Bela Lugosi, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke
Plot: The original telling of H.G. Well's classic novel about a man who stumbles upon an island of half-human and half-animal inhabitants.
8. Shanghai Express
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant
9. Trouble in Paradise
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig, Herbert Marshall
Plot: A high class thief meets his match in a professional pickpocket - and their romance is matched only by their talent. They target the owner of a perfume company but romance and jealousy make get in the way of the job at hand.
10. Red Dust
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall
