Cinematic Era: 1931 Vintage
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0.0 1931 • Cinematic -
It's time for the stagecoach race to win the mail contract and the only entries are Reden and Farrell. Reden's men kidnap Farrell's daughter and then force him to withdraw. Wally rescues Ruth, buys out Farrel, and enters the race himself. But Reden has his men planted along the course to make sure Wally doesn't win.
Red Fork Range
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.
Dress Rehearsal
0.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart. Spanish language version of the 1930 Nancy Carroll vehicle "The Devil's Holiday".
La fiesta del diablo
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
The various clocks and watches in a clock store dance, ring alarms musically, and otherwise entertain us in an after hours presentation.
The Clock Store
6.2 1931 • Cinematic -
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Charlie Chan Carries On
7.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
Fascination
6.7 1931 • Cinematic -
In a New York boarding house, owner Daisy Bowman becomes romantically involved with new tenant Jake while among the other residents taxi driver Eddie, fiancé of Betty, is framed for murder by a gangster and imprisoned without telling Betty. The faithless Jake makes a play for Betty, causing him to quarrel with Daisy. Attempting to strangle her he is shot dead by Betty’s blind son. One of Jake’s cohorts, Pete, tries to take advantage of a drunk Betty but when Daisy tries to intervene, he threatens to tell the police who really killed Jake. Meanwhile, Eddie has been released from jail, he returns to find a drunken Betty with Pete and misunderstands. Jake's brother arrives looking for vengeance and believing Eddie murdered Jake, but Daisy tells him it was Pete. In the ensuing shoot out both are killed, and Daisy helps Eddie and Betty reunite.
Women Go on Forever
10.0 1931 • Cinematic -
In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.
The Hot Spot
0.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A cowhand named Bob Blake visits with Sally Thompson and her kid-brother, Jimmy, on their hard-scrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and he plans on seeing if he can make things a bit easier for them.
Two-Gun Caballero
4.8 1931 • Cinematic -
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
Kiss Me Again
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
The Struggle
6.7 1931 • Cinematic -
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
East Lynne
6.6 1931 • Cinematic -
An old plate tells the tale of the Emperor of China, whose palace was disrupted by some children.
The China Plate
6.3 1931 • Cinematic -
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
The Beloved Bachelor
10.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
Caught Plastered
6.2 1931 • Cinematic -
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
Girls About Town
6.6 1931 • Cinematic -
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Hollywood Halfbacks
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
Oklahoma Jim
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set him on the right course be able to help?
My Friend Victor
9.5 1931 • Cinematic -
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
June Moon
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
The Primrose Path
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Devotion
7.2 1931 • Cinematic -
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Strictly Business
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange world of Wonderland. The first "talking" movie version of "Alice in Wonderland," produced in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1931, two years before Paramount's all-star production. Ruth Gilbert stars as Lewis Carroll's heroine in this black and white featurette (running under an hour) directed by Bud Pollard.
Alice in Wonderland
5.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
The Sea Ghost
5.7 1931 • Cinematic -
Carleton and Genevieve are actors who become stranded in a western town. Carleton finds work at a ranch, where he helps the owner and his granddaughter defend their enterprise against cattle rustlers.
The Cheyenne Cyclone
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Honor of the Family
7.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
Compromised
4.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Their Mad Moment
7.5 1931 • Cinematic -
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Ten Nights in a Bar-room
5.6 1931 • Cinematic -
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Rough Seas
7.0 1931 • Cinematic -
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Other Men's Women
5.7 1931 • Cinematic -
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
Trapeze
10.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Life and drama in a gypsy camp with the groups young lady falling in love with an outsider.
Black Flame
6.0 1931 • Cinematic -
When the Soldiers is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Otto Wallburg, Gretl Theimer and Ida Wüst.
When the Soldiers
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
Up for Murder
4.8 1931 • Cinematic -
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
Consolation Marriage
6.4 1931 • Cinematic -
Bill Sommers returns to find his ranch threatened by a corrupt, water-stealing landowner, John Weston. Weston’s foreman, Ballon, commits murder, frames Bill, and forces him to fight to clear his name.
Pueblo Terror
5.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.
Fra Diavolo
10.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
Young Donovan's Kid
10.0 1931 • Cinematic -
The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper seller, who looks longingly at the beautiful things in the display window. So they simply decide to smuggle the unfortunate inside and compete to win her favor by giving her gifts from the shelves of the department store. In their frenzy of happiness, they don’t notice that the girl is taking the fun little game for the truth. When she realizes that she has to give back the alleged gifts, she runs away.
One Hour of Happiness
6.5 1931 • Cinematic -
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
Woman Hungry
10.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Reserve hat Ruh
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
At the "Pupky" station, an opportunity occurs: two illegal passengers - guinea pigs - have to be disembarked from one of the trains, since animals cannot be transported in a general carriage. The head of the station Pryvychkin tries to help the animals, but the situation is beyond his control. The audit committee sets out to investigate the unpleasant incident... This witty satirical comedy, in which bureaucracy, bourgeoisie and provincialism are mocked, continued the development of the domestic comedy genre in Ukrainian Soviet cinema.
Pigs Will Be Pigs
4.5 1931 • Cinematic -
A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
The Montana Kid
7.5 1931 • Cinematic -
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Wicked
5.5 1931 • Cinematic -
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
Over the Hill
8.5 1931 • Cinematic -
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
The concert
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Mickey, apparently shipwrecked, is on a raft; he washes up on a tropical island, where a banana tree takes care of his hunger. He then discovers a piano that washed ashore, and begins playing it. The animals come around; a gorilla, after playing a 4-hands piece with his feet, destroys the piano. Mickey runs away and accidentally wakes a lion. The lion chases Mickey to a stream, where he jumps onto a rock that turns out to be right next to a crocodile.
The Castaway
6.1 1931 • Cinematic -
Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.
Second Hand Kisses
0.0 1931 • Cinematic -
'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bull Rushes
7.0 1931 • Cinematic -
Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When Johnny Day arrives and takes an interest in Jane, Morgan tries to kick him out. Johnny refuses to go and the stage is set for a showdown.
Near the Trail's End
5.8 1931 • Cinematic -
The Beckius family is living near the border to Russia. The youngest son, Armas, is living a wild life that eventually leads to a break with the family after which he joins the Russian Revolution. When he returns to his home country a few years later the family on the enemy's side.
One Night
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
The End of the World
5.2 1931 • Cinematic -
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
The Lady Refuses
5.3 1931 • Cinematic -
The wealthy Mr. Clyde is found dead, shot to death in his home. Inspector Carr suspects a conspiracy between the victim's young wife and her lover, Capt. Rugg. But Doctor Crabtree the criminologist never so quick to jump to conclusions as Inspector Carr.
The Clyde Mystery
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.
Mother and Son
9.0 1931 • Cinematic -
A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino.
Hot Heir
8.0 1931 • Cinematic -
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Old Man
7.0 1931 • Cinematic