1931 Movies

At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film details the…

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry nightclub owner in Chicago and a Scottish farmgirl in South Dakota.

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he’s the only man on the team.

An industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A virtuoso glassblower…

Just after Pocatello’s brother is killed, a wounded Pocatello arrives being chased by the Sheriff. Larkin switches the identity of the two brothers and then expects Pocatello to assume his…

When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found…

A man’s heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life….

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…

Larry White (Glenn Tryon), the captain of a fishing schooner, is induced by his wife,Millie (Vera Reynolds),who has nothing against luxury, to start using his boat to run prohibition-era rum,…

A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official, has control of a big city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the…

Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband, who had left her years before when he believed she was having an affair. She finds him as the drunken court…

A drama set in filmland, following the triumphs and heartaches of women who try to succeed in the movie industry.

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at…

A remake of 1930’s “Phantom of the Desert”, in which a crooked foreman and the ranch hands are rustling horses, and laying the blame on a wild stallion that roams…

When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don’t wait long before they…

WHen her father dies, a wealthy young women discovers that she’s not wealthy at all–her father lost all of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and she’s now…

Marshals Blackie and Joe, posing as two-gun men, hire on at Markham’s ranch. They are after Tulliver and his gang of rustlers. But unknown to the two, Tulliver has planted…

A beauty parlor manager has her sister help her with interesting results.

Larson cheats Burke at cards, has him sign over the deed to his ranch disguised as an IOU, and then kills him in a supposedly fair gunfight. This sends Bill…

Delivery boy Mickey encounters Minnie washing clothes and singing. He stops for a quick song and dance with her. Meanwhile, Pluto gets tangled up in tar. Mickey sends a beehive…

The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.

It’s Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman. In prison, Stan’s loose tooth keeps getting him in trouble,…

Two former WWI aces from opposite sides,Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies…

Tony Blair, a producer of Broadway plays, is murdered on a California-bound passenger liner, and a series of events leads to an assumption that Claire Norvelle has committed the killing….

After a quarrell at their 25th wedding aniversery, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but…

Mickey’s friends throw him a surprise birthday party at Minnie’s house. The chef brings out the cake (with 2 candles); Mickey manages to blow all the cake onto the chef’s…

On their way to the train station with their wives for a vacation in Atlantic City, Stanley and Oliver get a phone call from a fellow lodge member who tells…

A lonely husband, whose wife has been away, hires a look-a-like impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. His wife…

Bosko is a soda jerk (in more ways than one), happily whistling as he makes ice cream sodas. Bosko serves a mouse such a big soda that the only way…

The Hardys, hoping to avoid having the Laurels drop in and spoil their quiet evening, pretend not to be home when the couple inevitably call. But their subterfuge is discovered,…

After the success of “Little Caesar,” “Public Enemy” and “Scarface,” here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He’s aided by his…

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

A Connecticut Yankee is a 1931 American film adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. It was directed by David Butler to a script…

Christmas; Mickey and Minnie are singing carols. Someone drops a basket on the doorstep that has what seems like hundreds of kittens; they quickly overrun the house. Mickey dresses as…

A remake in Spanish of the Laurel and Hardy short Chickens Come Home (1931) , expanded into a feature by adding scenes of a magician and a regurgitator performing.

Nan, a racketeer’s daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan’s prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money…

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father’s endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later…