Dark Victory
When a young socialite (Bette Davis) is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, she needs to come to terms with her early death, with the support of a sexy neurosurgeon […]
Tag Archives: 1930s
She Done Him Wrong
It’s we goblins’ first foray into the fabulously flirtatious world of Mae West, the iconic filth-monger of the 1930s, whose outrageous innuendoes inadvertently ushered in a new age of cinematic […]
Vampyr
Vampyr is a German expressionist film from 1932 which tells the tale of Allen Grey (Julian West), a drifter who finds himself in a house in the countryside where a […]
Block-heads
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play Stan Laurel and Oliver hardy, a pair of soldiers in World War One. But when the war ends, no-one tells Stan, and 20 years […]
Frankenstein (1931)
This is the definitive adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel – the one you’ve seen clips of, and the one a million later Frankenstein’s monsters have been modelled on. Created […]
Gone With the Wind
The US Civil War era epic follows a young girl called Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), the daughter of wealthy plantation owners in the Old South. It opens with her pining after […]
Animal Crackers
A popular defence of Marxism is that it was “funnier at the time”, and while this may be true, from a modern perspective we can’t help but see it as […]
The 39 Steps
From 1935, this Hitchcock classic tells the tale of Hannay (Robert Donat) whose life is changed when he meets a beautiful woman at a local music hall. It turns out […]
On iPlayer: King Kong (1933)
Taking a giant monkey to New York is up there with showering at a remote motel and visiting a Transylvanian castle on the list of things which established movie wisdom tells us […]
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