The Depression
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1. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Passed | 129 min | Drama
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 99,924 | Gross: $0.06M
2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Votes: 14,434 | Gross: $1.42M
3. Man's Castle (1933)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,747
4. Riffraff (1935)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie and quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 1,109
5. Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron
Votes: 1,397
6. The President's Mystery (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent
Votes: 209
7. The President Vanishes (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
Like the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron, Paul Kelly, Peggy Conklin
Votes: 151
8. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Votes: 2,335
9. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
TV-G | 78 min | Drama
A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,879
10. Employees' Entrance (1933)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A working girl is menaced by her tyrannical employer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White
Votes: 1,639
11. This Day and Age (1933)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
High school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charles Bickford, Judith Allen, Richard Cromwell, Harry Green
Votes: 236
12. Heroes for Sale (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, War
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott
Votes: 2,516
13. American Madness (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Mystery
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all during the same day.
Directors: Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill | Stars: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings
Votes: 2,262
14. Manhattan Tower (1932)
Not Rated | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mary Brian, Irene Rich, James Hall, Hale Hamilton
Votes: 268
15. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,385 | Gross: $0.16M
16. My Man Godfrey (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick
Votes: 26,445
17. Hallelujah I'm a Bum (1933)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A New York tramp (Jolson) falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon
Votes: 865
18. Our Daily Bread (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Votes: 2,197
19. We Work Again (1937)
Unrated | 15 min | Short, Documentary
A tribute to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in their efforts to find jobs for African-Americans during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Stars: Charles Collins, Eric Burroughs, Lawrence Chenault, Alma Dickson
Votes: 150
20. National Recovery Administration (NRA) Promo (1933)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Music
A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.
Stars: Jimmy Durante, Moe Howard, Frank O'Connor
Votes: 52
21. The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to ... See full summary »
Directors: Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Rudolf Ising, The King's Men, Johnny Murray, The Rhythmettes
Votes: 449
22. Looking Forward (1933)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Family
In this Depression-era story set in London, a department-store owner (Lewis Stone) faces bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets ... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan
Votes: 307
23. Confidence (1933)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
When the Great Depression hits, Oswald the Rabbit goes to the President himself for help.
Directors: William Nolan, Walter Lantz | Stars: Tex Avery, Walter Lantz
Votes: 91
24. Mickey's Good Deed (1932)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
On Christmas Eve, Mickey is forced to sell Pluto to a bratty rich kid in order to give some orphans presents.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Votes: 852
25. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 9,141 | Gross: $4.80M
26. Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 638
27. Moving Day (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, with the help of Goofy the iceman, try to move out before the sheriff can sell off their furniture.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,053
28. Of Mice and Men (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Adventure, Drama
A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Charles Bickford
Votes: 6,849
29. Prosperity Blues (1932)
6 min | Animation, Short
Like everyone else Krazy Kat has been reduced to selling apples on a street corner, but soon he's smiling again and leading the community in a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again."
Directors: Manny Gould, Ben Harrison
Votes: 33
30. Success at Any Price (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, Colleen Moore
Votes: 353
31. Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, resulting... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Votes: 960
32. Let Us Live (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiancée of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter
Votes: 676
33. You and Me (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Film-Noir
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Votes: 1,630
34. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George
Votes: 15,512
35. ...One Third of a Nation... (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical ... See full summary »
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Myron McCormick, Hiram Sherman
Votes: 323
36. Tobacco Road (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Gene Tierney, Marjorie Rambeau, William Tracy
Votes: 2,571
37. Tortilla Flat (1942)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan
Votes: 2,045
38. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,512
39. Black Fury (1935)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane
Votes: 1,047
40. Stand-In (1937)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 1,316
41. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 4,768
42. New York Town (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. After Victor shoots a photo of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 88
43. If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Lionel Stander
Votes: 1,425
44. Easy Living (1937)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni
Votes: 4,167
45. Corruption (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
Director: Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Preston Foster, Charles Delaney, Tully Marshall
Votes: 184
46. Make a Million (1935)
68 min | Comedy
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Charles Starrett, Pauline Brooks, George E. Stone, James Burke
Votes: 103
47. One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski
Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $2.27M
48. The Panic Is On (1931)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his ... See full summary »
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Charley Chase, Virginia Whiting, Chester A. Bachman, Harry Bernard
Votes: 65
49. Girls of the Road (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane, Ann Doran
Votes: 172
50. Hard to Handle (1933)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 896
51. Blondie Johnson (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Directors: Ray Enright, Lucien Hubbard | Stars: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins, Earle Foxe
Votes: 786
52. Under Eighteen (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey, Warren William
Votes: 465
53. Central Park (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 494
54. Union Depot (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,184
55. Midnight Mary (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,616
56. Blind Date (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly, Jane Darwell
Votes: 256
57. Thirty Day Princess (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Romance
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 1,129
58. Fugitive in the Sky (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Jean Muir, Warren Hull, Gordon Oliver, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Votes: 226
59. Boy Slaves (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp.
Director: P.J. Wolfson | Stars: Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallion, Alan Baxter
Votes: 246
60. Golden Harvest (1933)
72 min | Drama
Eben Martin spends his lifetime accumulating wheat farms in hopes that his sons Chris and Walt will take over the family business and work the land. Chris is more interested in finance, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 55
61. Great God Gold (1935)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Martha Sleeper, Regis Toomey, Edwin Maxwell
Votes: 79
62. The Gay Bride (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
After the adversary of a bootlegger has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her over.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 659
63. The Crash (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Romance
Rich couple loses their fortune in stock market crash.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Barbara Leonard
Votes: 355
64. Accent on Love (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Drama
Wealthy young man takes a job as a WPA ditch digger and falls for an immigrant girl and divorces his wife and tries to help the poor.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: George Montgomery, Osa Massen, J. Carrol Naish, Cobina Wright
Votes: 44
65. One More Spring (1935)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
One More Spring is a 1935 film about three people (Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, and Walter Woolf King) living together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on... See full summary »
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell
Votes: 131
66. Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Four friends are certain to conquer the world upon their graduation from college, but they face disappointment when jobs are scant due to the Depression. Their lives unfold with the pursuance of happiness despite some tragic adversities.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 181
67. The Benson Murder Case (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Paul Lukas
Votes: 461
68. The Conquerors (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 345
69. The Phantom President (1932)
78 min | Comedy, Musical
A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier
Votes: 187
70. The World Changes (1933)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook
Votes: 527
71. New Deal Rhythm (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.
Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Cora Sue Collins, Marjorie Main
Votes: 28
72. What-No Beer? (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy
Two men decide to cash in on the end of Prohibition by selling watered down beer.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates, Phyllis Barry
Votes: 603
73. Prosperity (1932)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster
Votes: 291
74. Beggars in Ermine (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness, Henry B. Walthall, Jameson Thomas
Votes: 227
75. Free and Easy (1931)
8 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie McCarthy and the Professor are among a group of hobos sitting around a campfire in a railroad yard. They dream of visiting a gypsy fortune teller to find the location of money buried in an abandoned house.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Christina Graver
Votes: 98
76. One-Way Ticket (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Jerry, the son of a bank depositor who was cheated out of his savings, is sent to prison after he robs the bank of the exact sum his father lost. Captain Bill Bourne lives on the grounds of... See full summary »
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin, Walter Connolly, Edith Fellows
Votes: 23
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