1930s Films That Could Easily Double As Titles For Misandrist Manifestos
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- DirectorRalph CederStarsBenny RubinHarry GribbonHeinie ConklinTwo incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsWalter ConnollyLionel StanderEduardo CiannelliIn the second of Columbia's Nero Wolfe movies, the housebound detective is confronted with several deaths and a disappearance among a group of 10 Harvard alumni who had years earlier hazed another student, resulting in his becoming crippled.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJames GleasonZasu PittsMarjorie LordWhile Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsElissa LandiDavid MannersErnest TruexIn Pontus, the land of the Amazons, gender roles and natures are completely reversed: men stay at home and take care of the children and women are the strong sex, thanks to the sacred girdle of the Roman goddess Diana. It is in the care of Queen Hippolyta and her sister Antiope, the commander of the female armed forces. Only Sapiens, Queen Hippolyta's new husband, advocates women's rights.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsDolly HaasCyril MaudeEsmond KnightThe Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsWayne MorrisPriscilla LaneHumphrey BogartLinda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push her career further if she will just be "nice" to him and, when Jimmy gets jealous, she quits in favor of life as a suburban housewife. But her career still calls to her.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJoe YuleRenie RianoTim RyanMaggie and her snooty society friends fool Jiggs and his buddies down at Dinty's tavern into not only signing a petition to close the bar, but they also trick them into taking the "temperaance" pledge to forsake all alcohol.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsClara Kimball YoungJoel McCreaDorothy MackaillDaughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man.
- DirectorEugene FrenkeStarsAnna StenHenry WilcoxonViola KeatsAn officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
- DirectorRalph StaubStarsEl BrendelWini ShawPhil ReganA bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
- DirectorManuel RomeroStarsMecha OrtizTito LusiardoNiní MarshallAna Maria del Solar is a rich lady who suddenly lands in the street. After a while she lives in the pension where her driver lives.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsGene RaymondAnn SothernVictor MooreCarol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father has left her with huge debts and no resources to pay them. Aunt Jane suggests that Carol marry a South American millionaire, but, Carol refuses and vows to find a job instead. Waldo, a bookmaker, and Aunt Jane plot the perfect scheme. They arrange for Carol to be hired as a secretary for rich bachelor racetrack enthusiast and coffee magnate , Fuller Partridge. Fuller soon falls for Carol but doesn't let her know. Aunt Jane and Waldo try to set up a romantic interlude for the two at a resort. They insist Carol join them at the resort to recuperate from her near breakdown at work. Fuller, a workaholic refuses to go - Carol goes up alone. Waldo phones Fuller that Carol is delirious and is calling out for him. Fuller rushes up to the resort. Meanwhile, Waldo and Aunt Jane hire a hypnotist to hypnotize Carol to become delirious. By mistake, Aunt Jane is hypnotized instead and is calling out for Fuller. Waldo hides Aunt Jane in Carol's bed and fools Fuller into believing she's Carol. Fuller uncovers Waldo's scheme and accuses Carol of entrapping him into marriage and leaves. Now Waldo must convince Fuller that Carol is innocent....
- DirectorArzén von CserépyStarsGerda MaurusErnst DumckeRolf von GothA Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
- DirectorLansing C. HoldenIrving PichelStarsHelen GahaganRandolph ScottHelen MackA group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsBinnie BarnesCharles WinningerAlice BradyThree sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.
- DirectorJack ConwaySam WoodStarsGus VanJoe SchenckBessie LoveWhen Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsRalph ForbesBen AlexanderHala LindaBob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
- DirectorArthur B. WoodsStarsClifford MollisonWendy BarrieZelma O'NealA telephonist falls for her employer.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsJames EllisonHelen WoodRobert KentJames Ellison ("The Gang's All Here") stars as a man who saves a German shepherd from the city pound, only to have the dog implicate him in a murder. Featuring Ace the Wonder Dog.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsBilly BennettKathleen HarrisonGibb McLaughlinA night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy financier.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsZasu PittsPert KeltonEl BrendelA stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJohn MiljanShirley GreyMonroe OwsleyChesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion...
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGene GerrardJimmy GoddenMuriel Angelus
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsBetty CompsonJohn DarrowGilbert EmeryFather hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsElsa MerliniVittorio De SicaGiuditta RissoneA young and rich widow hires an unemployed man, Pietro, to make him live with her and to let everybody believe he is her lover. The man accepts the situation to earn a living, but in the end he falls in love with the widow and she falls in love with him too. Pietro, to gain his dignity back, moves away to look for a more decent job. He unexpectedly inherits a fortune from America that makes him suddenly a wealthy man. He goes back to the widow just in time to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
- DirectorMonty BanksHarry LachmanStarsMonty BanksLillian MantonClifford HeatherleyA recently engaged girl invites her parents to meet her fiance. They learn that he also loves another woman.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsKay JohnsonReginald DennyLillian RothAngela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyRobert OberPaul BernStarsTom MooreBlanche SweetSally StarrDuring a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Instead of arresting her and taking her to jail, he not only helps her escape but takes her out to dinner. Eventually they marry, but it's not long before the new bride starts to yearn for the excitement of her life back at the speakeasy. Against her husband's wishes, she goes back there and is noticed by the joint's owner, who offers her a job. She decides to take the job, leave her husband and go back to her old life, but things don't turn out quite the way she expected.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsIrene DunneConstance CummingsRalph BellamyIrene Dunne is married to Ralph Bellamy. Their union is comfortable but all that changes when Bellamy's old flame Constance Cummings comes back to town. Will the the thrill of loves past disrupt their happy home?
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldEdward Everett HortonWhen a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichLionel AtwillEdward Everett HortonA young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
- DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsCarole LombardRicardo CortezPaul LukasWhen the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsNorman FosterEvalyn KnappEric LindenBored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsMiriam HopkinsJoel McCreaFay WrayAn heiress switches places with her secretary in order to find a man who will love her for who she is and not for her money.
- DirectorCyril GardnerStarsLaura La PlanteYvonne ArnaudGarry MarshIn order to win back their former boyfriends, two widows stage a phony burglary.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsLionel BarrymoreAlice BradyConway TearleAn unhappy couple watch as their daughter throws herself at an older man because he is a sophisticated artist. The daughter doesn't know that her aunt is the man's lover. At a weekend retreat, everything comes to a head when the mother plans to run off with the artist while a young man pursues the daughter.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsGene RaymondAnn SothernHelen BroderickModeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick Smith instead; he welcomes the confusion of identity and sets out to win her by force of personality alone. It's an uphill battle. Lots of wry repartee.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsBuster KeatonLona AndreTiny SandfordA man who has sworn off women and a woman who has sworn off men must find their budding relationship threatened by aggressive romantic rivals.
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsMartha RayeBob HopeBetty GrableJim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling sister, Letty to help break Walter and Nancy up. Letty agrees only under one condition, he help her to win Walter!
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellVictor JoryDan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsHeinz RühmannLeny MarenbachHans SöhnkerWhen a bland British banker fails to please his wife, he pretends to be interested in other women so she will become jealous and care more for him.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsMary NewcombBenita HumeGeorge BarraudRichard Sones is jealous of his wife and thinks she may be starting an affair. His plan to thwart it involves hiring an actress to live with them. Will it work? Or backfire? Or just result in some good comedy?
- DirectorReginald PurdellStarsHans SöhnkerLesley BrookEdwin Styles
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsTyrone PowerLinda DarnellWarren WilliamWhen a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
- DirectorSeymour FelixStarsVirginia CherrillJohn WayneMarguerite ChurchillPeter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.