1932: Movies Seen
Submitted by Imposter on Mon, 08/16/2004 - 03:33
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- Trouble In Paradise - dir: Ernst Lubitsch; st: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall:
****½
- Boudu Saved From Drowning - dir: Jean Renoir; st: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia, Severine Lerczinska
- Freaks - dir: Tod Browning; st: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Johnny Eck, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles
- Horse Feathers - dir: Norman Z. McLeod; st: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd
- I Was Born, But... - dir: Yasujiro Ozu; st: Hideo Sugawara, Tomio Aoki, Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
- The Mummy - dir: Karl Freund; st: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
- Vampyr - dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer; st: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Henriette Gerard
****
- Doctor X - dir: Michael Curtiz; st: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray
- Grand Hotel - dir: Edmund Goulding; st: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
- I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang - dir: Mervyn LeRoy; st: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins
- The Mask Of Fu Manchu - dir: Charles Brabin; st: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starett, Myrna Loy
- The Most Dangerous Game - dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel; st: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
- The Old Dark House - dir: James Whale; st: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart
- One Way Passage - Tay Garnett; st: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon, Frank McHugh, Warren Hymer
- Scarface - dir: Howard Hawks; st: Paul Muni, George Raft, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Boris Karloff
- Shanghai Express - dir: Josef von Sternberg; st: Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Clive Brook, Eugene Pallette
- Three On A Match - dir: Mervyn LeRoy; st: Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, Warren William, Lyle Talbot
***½
- The Animal Kingdom - dir: Edward H. Griffith; st: Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, Ann Harding, William Gargan, Henry Stephenson
- Forbidden - dir: Frank Capra; st: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson
- The Half Naked Truth - dir: Gregory La Cava; st: Lupe Velez, Lee Tracy, Eugene Pallette, Frank Morgan, Shirley Chambers
- Love Me Tonight - dir: Rouben Mamoulian; st: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy
- Murders In The Rue Morge - dir: Robert Florey; st: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Waycoff, Noble Johnson, Arlene Francis
- So Big - dir: William A. Wellman; st: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Bette Davis, Earle Fox, Hardie Albright, Alan Hale
***
- The Famous Ferguson Case - dir: Lloyd Bacon; st: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Tom Brown, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
- Lawyer Man - dir: William Dieterle; st: William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Helen Vinson, Claire Dodd
- The Purchase Price - dir: William Wellman; st: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, David Landau, Hardie Albright
- Red-Headed Woman - dir: Jack Conway; st: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel, Henry Stephenson
- Shopworn - dir: Nick Grinde; st: Barbara Stanwyck, Reegis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Clara Bandick
- The Sign Of The Cross - dir: Cecil B. DeMille; st: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Elissa Landi
**½
- Miss Pinkerton - dir: Lloyd Bacon; st: Joan Blondell, George Brendt, Ruth Hall, John Wray, Elizabeth Patterson
Good stuff. Do see Boudu Saved from Drowning, Renoir's enjoyable satire about a tramp taken in by a respectable Bourgeois family after being rescued from drowning. And Dreyer's eerie Vampyr, Liebelei, a poignant Viennese romance, Shanghai Express, The Music Box.