48 Pesetas De Taxi (1930) - Director: Fernando Delgado

A Daughter of the Congo (1930) - Oscar Micheaux (Dir) - Cast: Kathleen Noisette (Lupelta) - Loretta Tucker - Clarence Reed - Lupelta, a mulatto girl who was stolen as a baby and brought up by an African tribe, is betrothed to the powerful chief Lodango. As she travels with her maid to Lodango's village, she stops to bathe and is captured by Arab slave hunters. Meanwhile, Captain Paul Dale of the African-American 10th United States Cavalry, assisted by First Lieutenant Ronald Brown, operates a constabulary in the small republic of Liberia, where Lupelta's tribe lives. During a reconnaissance mission, they encounter the slave hunters, rescue Lupelta and imprison the men responsible for her capture. Dale and Brown then take Lupelta to a mission school, where she excels remarkably, despite her tendency to return to some of her wild native ways. Through her industry, beauty, and intelligence, Lupelta soon becomes one of the most popular girls in Monrovia.

Abraham Lincoln (1930) Abraham Lincoln - Silent film master D.W. Griffith's first talkie works as a companion piece to his classic BIRTH OF A NATION, providing a detailed biographical sketch of the 16th president. We see his birth in a log cabin, the tragic death of his first love, Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel), his debates with Douglas, his accepting of the presidency, the terrible toll of the Civil War, and finally the tragic assassination at Ford?s Theater. Griffith shows his usual meticulous attention to period detail, and the framing of the various vignettes has the feel of historical photographs come to life. Walter Huston is excellent in the title role, with a portrayal that subtly evolves from laconic, wizened rascal to noble elder statesman. This is a fascinating, worthy film, and an interesting historical document in and of itself.

Africa Speaks (1930) - "From the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean the path of the story stretches--across the black throbbing heart of the untouched Congo. Weird customs, wild dances--age-old rituals of worship to the gods of fertility, of love--flame in the background, accenting the panorama of cruelty, sensuality, and amazing feats of heroism." (Studio pressbook.) The expedition, under explorer Paul L. Hoefler, centers around the region of Kiya Be. The customs and rites of the Wasara people are explained, particularly that of the women who insert large wooden discs in their lower lips, distorting themselves in order to avoid being enslaved by marauding Bedouin chiefs. With respect to the pygmies, it is noted that trial marriage has been perfected "to a state that would shock the sensitive and fascinate the modern mind." Natives are shown struggling with lions; women dance to a jazz phonograph record; and a swarm of locusts covers and devours the African jungle.

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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Lewis Milestone (Dir) - Paul Bäumer, a young German schoolboy, along with his friends, is inspired by his schoolmaster to "save the Fatherland" and joins the Kaiser's forces. Their illusions are soon dispelled, however, by the cruel realities of battle, relieved only by a brief romantic interlude with some French farm girls and the humorous interjections of Katz and Tjaden. When Paul, the only survivor of the group, returns home, he finds the professor still haranguing his young scholars to join the conflict; and when Paul denounces this attitude, he is proclaimed a coward by the youths. Tiring of the false impression of war at home, he returns to the front to instruct his new comrades in warfare. As the sole survivor of this group also, Paul reaches over the top of a trench to catch a butterfly and is killed by an enemy sniper. ... Quiet reigns on the front lines.

All quiet on the western front - Sin novedad en el frente (1930) - EE.UU D.: Lewis Milestone. I.: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray. Al estallar, en 1914, la Primera Guerra Mundial, un grupo de muchachos alemanes del último curso decide seguir los consejos de su profesor y abandona la escuela para alistarse en el ejército. A sus 18 años están llenos de ilusión y patriotismo, y sólo uno de ellos, llamado Paul Baumer (Lew Ayres), vacila por la decisión que han tomado. Su primer desencanto les llega durante la etapa de instrucción, cuando el cabo Himmelstoss (John Wray) les somete a continuos castigos y humillaciones. Posteriormente, ya en el campo de batalla, los nuevos reclutas son acogidos por el veterano Katczinsky (Louis Wolheim), que les enseña diferentes trucos para sobrevivir en el frente. Pero según van ganando experiencia bajo el fuego enemigo, también comienzan a comprender lo absurdo e inútil de la guerra y de unos ideales que les llevaron a enrolarse para salvar a Alemania. Poco a poco el agotamiento va haciendo mella en ellos y su desconcierto aumenta cuando ven morir a su lado a compañeros de colegio. Paul, además, deberá superar el trauma que supone matar por primera vez a un hombre cara a cara. Excelente película antibelicista, que adapta la novela homónima de Erich Maria Remarque, que según la crítica fue el alegato más importante y significativo escrito contra la guerra en el siglo XX. Lewis Milestone planeó la película como una enorme superproducción, se utilizaron hasta 35 decorados diferentes, se construyeron tres kilómetros de carretera para poder mover con mayor facilidad una nueva y gigantesca grúa diseñada especialmente para recoger la amplitud del campo de batalla, se utilizaron 10 toneladas de pólvora, 6 toneladas de dinamita y se provocó la explosión de 6.000 bombas. Lewis Milestone volvió a experimentar con el sonido, como anteriormente había hecho con Perfidia, su anterior obra y su primer filme sonoro.

Amos'n & Andy (1930) -

Amour Chante, L' (1930)

Ángeles del infierno (Hell's Angels) (1930)

Animal Crackers (1930) - Often considered their best, this second Marx Brothers movie revolves around a stolen painting and the sprawling estate of a wealthy dowager who soon finds Chico, Zeppo, Harpo, and, especially, Groucho turning her life upsidedown. Groucho croons his famous "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" and delivers many of his most famous quips in this film based on a play by George S. Kaufman.

Another Fine Mess (1930) - Laurel and Hardy escape the police by ducking into a lavish Beverly Hills mansion and posing as its owners. Stan's father penned the sketch on which this film was based, though it's the slapstick set-pieces, and a hilarious turn by Stan Laurel disguised as the maid, that make this one of the best Laurel and Hardy efforts.

Antics (1930) -

Applause (1930) - Rouben Mamoulian (Dir) - Cast: Helen Morgan (Kitty Darling) - Joan Peers - April Darling) - Fuller Mellish Jr. (Hitch Nelson) - - Burlesque queen Kitty Darling gives birth to a baby girl shortly after learning that her husband has been executed. A few years later, Kitty refuses the marriage proposal of her friend, comic joe King, because she dreams of "making it big" on Broadway, but takes Joe's suggestion to send her beloved April to a convent school. Years later, Kitty is an alcoholic who still dreams of Broadway. Her current lover, Hitch Nelson, is a two-timing gigolo who demands that Kitty send for the now seventeen year-old April when he learns that Kitty has been paying for the girl's education. April is disgusted by New York's seedy burlesque environment, but her love for Kitty makes her stay. When she meets Tony, a young sailor, they fall in love and want to marry, delighting Kitty but infuriating Hitch, who wants April to go on stage to support him now that Kitty is a has-been. Realizing that her career is over and Hitch has only been using her, Kitty sends April to Tony, then takes an overdose of sleeping pills. April returns to her mother after telling Tony that she won't marry him, then goes on stage when Kitty is too weak to perform. April is a success, but rushes offstage crying. Tony arrives, knowing that April didn't mean what she said earlier, and unaware that Kitty has just died, they decide to take her with them to Wisconsin.

Bar L Ranch (1930) -

Barcarole (1930) -

Bat Whispers (1930)

Beau Bandit (1930) - Lambert Hillyer (Dir) - Cast: Rod La Rocque (Montero) - Mitchell Lewis (Coloso) - Doris Kenyon (Helen Wardell) - - Montero, a killer, and his aide Coloso, a vicious deafmute, are pursued through the sand dunes of Arizona by "Bob Cat" Manners and his posse. Montero plans to rob the bank of skinflint Perkins but is sidetracked by singing teacher Helen Wardell; he learns that Perkins has marital designs on her and holds a $3,000 mortgage on the ranch of her fiancé, Howard. Perkins, recognizing Montero as a wanted man, offers him money to kill Howard, but Montero merely fakes the murder. Prepared for a doublecross, Montero takes the posse prisoners and collects the blood money from Perkins, who as justice of the peace is forced to marry Helen and Howard.

Below Zero ( 1930)

Big Trail - La piste des géants (1930) - Raoul Walsh

Billy the Kid (1930) -

Blood of a Poet (1930) - Jean Cocteau made his first foray into cinema with the haunting collagelike film BLOOD OF A POET. Financed by the philanthropical Vicomte de Noailles, who was also responsible for Luis Buñuel?s similarly avant-garde L?AGE D?OR, BLOOD OF A POET shimmers with energy and invention, inaugurating an style that Cocteau would rework in each of his future films. Borrowing the sexual undertones and dreamlike structure of his plays, novels and paintings, Cocteau presents a sequence of seemingly unrelated events, all depicting the philosophical and metaphysical struggles of the artist. A handsome and shirtless young poet navigates a universe filled with moving statues, mirrors of water, opium smoke, mysterious hotel rooms, and mutating hermaphrodites. Cocteau?s unique voice ties the episodic mediation together with various selections culled from his romantic surrealist poetry. Erotically tinged scenes of adolescent misbehavior taken from Cocteau?s novel (and future film) LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES mingle with theatrical tableaus, all permeated by a dreamlike tempo and voyeuristic aesthetic in the creation of what the filmmaker would call "a descent into oneself, a way of using the mechanism of the dream without sleeping, a crooked candle, often mysteriously blown out, carried about in the night of the human body."

Blue Angel (1930) - This Josef Von Sternberg film, based on Heinrich Mann's novel PROFESSOR UNRAT, made Marlene Dietrich a star and began a tumultuous relationship between star and director that spanned Sternberg's most creative period. The film stars Emil Jannings as Dr. Immanuel Rath, a provincial prep school teacher who becomes incensed when he learns his boys have become infatuated with Lola Lola (Dietrich), a cabaret singer. Heading to the Blue Angel, a nightclub, to catch his pupils, Rath instead becomes bewitched by the sensuous Lola himself, beginning an obsession that drives him to the depths of despair. Visionary, haunting, and emotionally unrelenting, THE BLUE ANGEL stands as Sternberg's crowning achievement. Filmed in both German and English simultaneously, the German version is considered superior to its English language counterpart.

Bob Steele (1930) -

Border Romance (1930) - Richard Thorpe (Dir) - Cast: Armida (Conchita Cortez) - Don Terry (Bob Hamlin) Marjorie "Babe" Kane (Nina) - - Bob Hamlin, his younger brother, Victor, and their helper, Slim, are engaged in horsetrading in the mountains of Mexico. They meet Buck Adams, a prospective buyer; and at a tavern, Vic antagonizes a big Mexican by trying to dance with a girl and is forced to kill him when he draws a gun. Their horses are stolen, but they evade capture by the rurales . While giving chase to Buck, Bob encounters Conchita, whose beauty captivates him; but he courts Gloria, Buck's girl, in order to learn the whereabouts of the villain. He abducts the brokenhearted Conchita and takes her to a mountain hideout, where he convinces her of his innocence of the crime. He surrenders to the rurales , who take Buck's men prisoners, and collects the reward for having killed El Gallo, a notorious bandit.

Bosco (1930) -

Brats (1930) - Only the second Laurel and Hardy film in which just Laurel and Hardy appear. The first was Early to Bed (1928). Most creative short features, "Brats" has both comedians playing a dual role. Stanley and Oliver are baby-sitting for little Stanley and Little Oliver, played by themselves, with very imaginative use of over-sized props and settings. The adults try to play checkers and play pool, not always without comic difficulties, while meanwhile the children get into one problem after another, requiring occasional correction from the adults. This short feature has a lot of creative material, clever settings, good cross-cutting, and several very good laughs.

Breezy Bill (1930) - J. P. McGowan (Dir) - Cast: Bob Steele (Breezy Bill) Alfred Hewston (Henry Pennypincher) George Hewston (Gabe, his brother) - - Two bandits out to get their hands on Henry Pennypincher's stocks and bonds abduct the rancher when he refuses to reveal their location. Pennypincher's adopted son, Breezy Bill, is knocked unconscious for intervening, and he consequently is blamed for Pennypincher's disappearance. With the help of Pennypincher's nephew and niece and a flimsy disguise, Bob trails the bandits and rescues Pennypincher.

Burning Up (1930) - A. Edward Sutherland (Dir) - Cast: Richard Arlen (Lou Larrigan) - Mary Brian (Ruth Morgan) - Francis McDonald ("Bullet" McGhan) - Lou Larrigan, employed by Dave Gentry in automobile sales, is ambitious to become a race driver like his partner, "Bullet," who has been barred from the track for causing an accident. When Dave goes broke, he and Bullet accept an offer from "Windy" Wallace, a crooked promoter, to frame a race. Meanwhile, Lou is booked into various races, becomes successful, and wins the love of Ruth Morgan, daughter of the town banker. When Bullet wrecks his car attempting to break a record, a race is arranged between Lou and Bullet; and Windy gets a wealthy man to bet $25,000 on Lou. Learning of the plot, Lou confronts the villains and alarms them by predicting that he will win the race. Bullet deliberately tries to run him off the track, but Lou evades Bullet and in a thrilling finish wins the race.

Buster Keaton - Dough Boys (1930) -

Buster Keaton - Free and Easy (1930) - Edward Sedgwick (Dir) - Cast: Buster Keaton (Elmer Butts) - Anita Page (Elvira) - Trixie Friganza (Ma) - - Elmer Butts, the befuddled manager of Elvira, a Kansas beauty contest winner, is obliged to take her to Hollywood and get her a break in the movies. At a typical Grauman's Chinese premiere, they are confronted with screen celebrities. Later, Elmer crashes the studio gate, allowing a comic chase through sound stages where various players are working, including Lionel Barrymore, Karl Dane, and Dorothy Sebastian. Ultimately, he gets a job as an extra, causing various amusing complications. Elvira falls in love with Larry, a screen hero, while Elmer is awarded a studio contract and appears in the musical comedy finale, "Free and Easy."

Call of the Desert (1930) - J. P. McGowan (Dir) - Cast: Tom Tyler (Rex Carson)- Sheila Le Gay (Jean Walker) - Bud Osborne (Todd Walker) -
- "Story has to do with a chap who gives a villain and accomplice a lacing when they try to steal his father's [mine?] claim. Most of the action takes place out-doors and sets a fast pace." ( Film Daily, 18 May 1930, p13.)

Call of the West (1930) - Albert Ray (Dir) Cast: Dorothy Revier (Violet La Tour) - Matt Moore (Lon Dixon) - Katherine Clare Ward (Ma Dixon) - Enervated by the nightly round of social activities, Violet La Tour, a popular nightclub entertainer, is refused a New York booking by Maurice Kane, her persistent admirer, and her agent procures work for her in a road show. During a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, she collapses and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon, where his mother nurses her. A romance develops, and when Lon proposes to her, Violet accepts, but soon after the ceremony, he agrees to join a party of cowboys in a search for rustlers. Finding his departure unpardonable, Violet impulsively returns to New York and is welcomed with open arms by Kane. She resumes her old society life but resists Kane's attempts at love-making, and when Lon comes to the city to claim her, she gladly confirms her love for him.

Captain of the Guard (1930) - John S. Robertson (Dir) - Cast: Laura La Plante (Marie - Marnay) John Boles (Rouget de l'Isle) - Sam De Grasse (Bazin) - Marie Marnay, an innkeeper's daughter, refuses to marry Bazin, a secret agent in the service of the king, but when Bazin sends music master Rouget de l'Isle to give her singing lessons, she falls in love and pledges her troth to Rouget. Marie's father refuses to join the revolt against the king and is killed trying to save her from the advances of a soldier; as a result, she joins the revolutionists, giving up her claim to Rouget, who is in the service of the king, and becomes notorious as "The Torch." Using Rouget as bait, Bazin effects a reconciliation, then orders Marie arrested as well as her consort. Charmed by his voice, Marie Antoinette has Rouget released to sing his song "La Marseillaise" for the king; he then renounces the king and escapes Paris; and in Marseilles he organizes an army, marches on Paris, and is reunited with Marie at the outbreak of the Revolution.

Cartoonies Featuring Gabby (1930) - Gabby, the cantankerous star of "Gulliver's Travels," cavorts through "King for a Day," "The Funshine State," "It's a Hap-hap-happy Day," "Gobs of Fun," "All's Well," "Win, Place and Show boat" and "Two for the Zoo."

Cartoonies Featuring Little Lulu (1930) - See if Little Lulu can stop getting into mischief long enough to sing with you as you follow-the-bouncing-ball in these episodes: "The Dog Show Off," "Little Brown Jug," "Lulu at the Zoo," "The Big Drip," "I'm Just Curious," "A Car-Tune Portrait" and "Man's Pest Friend."

Caught Short (1930) -

Check and Double Check (1930) - When Amos and Andy spend a night in a haunted house during an initiation ritual for their lodge, they get into plenty of trouble--and solve a mystery. This is the only movie made by the infamous comedy team.

Children of Pleasure (1930) - Harry Beaumont (Dir) - Cast: Lawrence Gray (Danny Regan) - Wynne Gibson (Emma Gray) - Helen Johnson (Pat Thayer) - Danny Regan, an up-and-coming songwriter, becomes enamoured of Emma Gray, an heiress, but on the night before the wedding, he finds that Emma considers their marriage to be a trial experiment and plans to continue her affair with his understudy. Incensed, he disappears, and later his office coworker, Pat, who has been his constant friend, agrees to marry him. After a drinking spree, Danny awakens, believing that he is married to Pat. He soon discovers that Pat, thinking that he still was in love with Emma, did not go through with the ceremony. Having learned his lesson, he finds that Pat is the girl for him, after all.

City Girl (1930) - F. W. Murnau (Dir) - Cast: David Torrence (The Father) Edith Yorke (The Mother) Dawn O'Day (The Little Daughter) - Lem Tustine is the son of a Minnesota wheat farmer off for Chicago to sell his father's annual crop, and though caught in a falling market, he meets Kate, who is a waitress in the Windy City, and brings her home as his bride. His father, whose primary ties are to the land which he loves above all else, takes her for a fortune hunter and strongly resents her marriage to his son and belittles her character. Her repeated efforts to win his approval are unsuccessful. A hailstorm necessitates emergency night-harvesting of the crop, and in the confusion the foreman, Lem's brother, hurts his hand in a threshing machine. Coming to have his hand bandaged, he tries to force his attentions on Kate; and though she repulses him, the elder Tustine witnesses the struggle and informs Lem. The foreman threatens to pull out the workers unless Kate will leave with him; she agrees, thinking her marriage is a failure. Lem bests the foreman in a fight and is barely missed by his father's gunfire at the deserting workers. Realizing he has almost killed his son, Tustine relents, and Lem brings back his wife to a humbled and more tolerant father.

Concentratin' Kid (1930) -

Covered Wagon Trails - 1930 - J. P. McGowan (Dir) - Cast: Bob Custer ("Smoke" Sanderson)
Phyllis Bainbridge (Wanda Clayton) Perry Murdock (Chet Clayton) - "Smoke" Sanderson "is after a gang of smugglers operating at the border, and as deputy [sheriff?] he rides into all kinds of trouble and excitement before he finally lands the gang. Of course there is the girl whose brother is working with the gang." ( Film Daily, 18 May 1930, p12.)

Crazy That Way - 1930 - Hamilton MacFadden (Dir) - Cast: Kenneth MacKenna (Jack Gardner) - Joan Bennett (Ann Jordan) - Regis Toomey (Robert Metcalf) - Ann Jordan, who is engaged to Frank Oakes, is constantly pursued by young Robert Metcalf at the local country club--in fact, wherever she and her fiancé go--much to Frank's displeasure. When she at last becomes exasperated by their continuous wrangling, she begins to notice her father's friend, Jack Gardner, an engineer to whose charming presence she has hitherto remained oblivious. When the boys virtually wreck her garden, they find that she has fallen in love with Jack.

Crimen Secreto (1930) -

Dames Ahoy (1930) - William James Craft (Dir) - Cast: Glenn Tryon (Jimmy Chase) Helen Wright (Mabel McGuire) Otis Harlan (Bill Jones) - Three sailors--Jimmy, Bill, and Mac--on shore leave set out to find the blonde who tricked Bill into drawing half his pay from the Navy, claiming to be his wife. After several adventures in which they look for an identifying strawberry birthmark on the legs of many girls, Bill remembers that he met her a dancehall. There, Jimmy and his partner, Mabel, win first prize and, provided that they marry, a furnished bungalow; Jimmy decides to marry her and buy off Bill's wife, and Mabel agrees in order to get the bungalow. Afterwards, the young couple find themselves in love, and Jimmy, to the disgust of his friends, resolves not to reenlist; but Mabel succeeds in dominating the whole group.

Dangerous Paradise (1930) - William Wellman (Dir) - Cast: Nancy Carroll (Alma) Richard Arlen (Heyst) Warner Oland (Schomberg) - Alma, a member of Zangiacomo's all-female orchestra, playing at Schomberg's hotel in Sourabaya, is frightened by the men's advances; attracted by the kindness of Heyst, a hotel guest, she hides on his boat to escape her tormentors. Heyst, who has retreated to a remote island following an unhappy love affair, discovers her and grudgingly allows her to remain at his cabin. Meanwhile Zangiacomo and Schomberg fight over her, resulting in Zangiacomo's death; Schomberg is then held prisoner by Mr. Jones, Ricardo, and Pedro, three desperadoes, who convert the hotel into a gambling house. To divert them, Schomberg tells them of gold on the island; and after killing and robbing Schomberg, the men depart. In a desperate confrontation with Heyst, Pedro and Ricardo are killed and Alma is wounded; but Heyst is grateful for the awakening of courage and love.

Deep South (1930) -

Dixiana (1930) - A musical comedy with Wheeler and Woolsey helping a pretty circus performer land a wealthy southern man.

Double Cross Roads (1930) - Alfred L. Werker (Dir) - Cast: Robert Ames (David Harvey) - Lila Lee (Mary Carlyle) Edythe Chapman (Mrs. Carlyle) - David Harvey, an ex-convict, determines to go straight and retires to a country town where he meets and falls in love with Mary Carlyle. The mob attempts to induce him to participate in another robbery--of a wealthy woman in a nearby town--but he puts them off until he discovers that Mary is part of the gang; then, disillusioned, he goes through with it. Mary agrees provided that Happy Max lets David go, but she is doublecrossed. Another gang invades the house during a party and forces David to turn over the jewels, but he gives them paste imitations. The two gangs shoot it out from speeding automobiles, and ultimately the path to romance is cleared for the young couple.

Dough Boys (1930) -

Dumbbells in Ermine (1930) - John G. Adolfi (Dir) - Cast: Robert Armstrong (Jerry Malone) Barbara Kent (Faith Corey) Beryl Mercer (Grandma Corey)
- In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.

Earth (1930) - The story involves the people of a small Ukrainian farming village whose lives are changed when they decide to collectively purchase a tractor. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, the people struggle to make their dreams a reality. Silent film with orchestral score.

El ángel azul (Der blau engel) (1930)

El Presidio (1930) -

El Último de los Vargas (1930) - Directed by David Howard - A cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife. George J. Lewis (as Jorge Lewis)
Luana Alcañiz
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Amadeo Alcañiz
Pablo Arenas
Juan de Landa
Nelly Fernández

Embarrassing Moments - 1930 - William James Craft (Dir) Cast: Reginald Denny (Thaddeus Cruikshank) Merna Kennedy (Marion Fuller) Otis Harlan (Adam Fuller) - Marion Fuller returns home after studying art in New York City and finds that her Aunt Prudence and her fiancé, Jasper Hickson, are suspicious of the influence of city life on her. Weary of her fiancé's attitude, she tells her family that she has engaged in a "trial marriage" in New York with Thaddeus Cruikshank, a name she remembers as the author of a book she has read. Her father wires Cruikshank, demanding that he come to Fullervale, and thinking that an imposter is using his name, Thaddeus obeys the summons; finding Marion to his liking, he is not disturbed when Fuller insists upon an immediate marriage. Complications ensue as the family tries to keep them apart until after the ceremony. Marion wilfully declines to marry him, but Thaddeus "compromises" her to such an extent that she consents.

Fair Warning (1930) -

Faith for Gold - 1930 - In the Burg household, Alice rejects a life of comfort and social splendor to join the life of the cloister, though her decision is bitterly resented by her brother, Joseph, an aspiring young pianist. Because she donates her part of the family fortune to the Church, he denounces her and forbids mention of the Church or religion in the home. Fifteen years later, having achieved fame and fortune, Joseph is apparently lost aboard a sinking ocean liner, and his wife (Emily?) at the insistence of their son, Johnny, turns to God for strength and guidance. Although Joseph does return safely, he remains adamantly against God and the Church in spite of the entreaties of Father Thomas, a friend of Johnny's. When Johnny is injured in a fall, Alice comes to nurse him, and Emily, in despair, asks for a divorce but is denied it by "the law of God and the Church." However, through Father Thomas' guidance, the couple are reconciled, and Joseph realizes his error in giving up "faith for gold."

Fast and Loose (1930) -
Miriam Hopkins .... Marion Lenox
Carole Lombard .... Alice O'Neil
Frank Morgan .... Bronson Lenox
Charles Starrett .... Henry Morgan
Henry Wadsworth .... Bertie Lenox
Winifred Harris .... Carrie Lenox

Feet First (1930) -

Harold Lloyd .... Harold Horne
Barbara Kent .... Barbara
Robert McWade .... John Quincy Tanner
Lillian Leighton .... Mrs. Tanner
Henry Hall .... Endicott

Forbidden Adventure (1930) -

Framed - 1930 - George Archainbaud (Dir) - Cast: Evelyn Brent (Rose Manning) - Regis Toomey (Jimmy McArthur [Carter]) - Ralf Harolde (Chuck Gaines) - Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur. Chuck hears of Jimmy's desire to marry Rose and orders Bing to put him on the spot. Meanwhile, Jimmy's father, hoping to put an end to the boy's folly, raids the club. Rose tries to warn Jimmy but is herself attacked by the jealous Chuck, who is shot and killed by Jimmy. Rose shields Jimmy, laying the slaying of Chuck to Bing Murdock; and McArthur, realizing that her love is genuine, brings the couple together.

Free and Easy - 1930 - Edward Sedgwick (Dir) - Cast: Buster Keaton (Elmer Butts) - Anita Page (Elvira) - Trixie Friganza (Ma) - - Elmer Butts, the befuddled manager of Elvira, a Kansas beauty contest winner, is obliged to take her to Hollywood and get her a break in the movies. At a typical Grauman's Chinese premiere, they are confronted with screen celebrities. Later, Elmer crashes the studio gate, allowing a comic chase through sound stages where various players are working, including Lionel Barrymore, Karl Dane, and Dorothy Sebastian. Ultimately, he gets a job as an extra, causing various amusing complications. Elvira falls in love with Larry, a screen hero, while Elmer is awarded a studio contract and appears in the musical comedy finale, "Free and Easy."

French Fried (1930) -

General Crack - 1930 - Alan Crosland (Dir) - Cast: John Barrymore (Duke of Kurland/Prince Christian/General Crack) Philippe De Lacy (Christian, as a boy) Lowell Sherman (Leopold II, Emperor of Austria) - The Duke of Kurland is holding a banquet for his officers and is bemoaning his lack of an heir to the Kurland sword when a ragged boy enters the hall and identifies himself as Christian, the duke's son by a Gypsy princess, now dead. Twenty years later, admired as General Crack, a soldier of fortune, Prince Christian is a powerful leader. When compelled by Leopold II of Austria to offer his services, Christian demands a high price in gold and the hand of the Archduchess Maria Luisa. En route, he encounters Fidelia, a spirited Gypsy dancer; and under the spell of Gypsy lore, he marries the girl and takes her to Vienna. Crack is astounded at Maria Luisa's beauty; and Leopold becomes infatuated with Fidelia at a court celebration. While Crack is away at war Leopold forces his attentions on the bride; the vengeful Gabor gives evidence against the emperor and is executed. Crack accepts Maria Luisa's offer to be elevated as Archduke of Kurland.

Girl of the Port - 1930 - Bert Glennon (Dir) - Cast: Sally O'Neil (Josie) - Reginald Sharland (Jim)
Mitchell Lewis (McEwen) - Josie, a showgirl stranded in Suva, Fiji, is befriended by Kalita, who gets her a job as barmaid in a local cabaret. There she meets Jim, an English war veteran, who has become an alcoholic and is haunted by a fear of fire as a result of his war experiences. Their attachment enrages McEwen, a wealthy halfcaste posing as white, and their quarreling results in a fight in which Jim leaves the impression of being a coward. Josie learns the truth about his war experiences, and under her care he begins to recover. McEwen, however, lures Jim away to Benga Island, where he plans to torture him, and Josie follows to be near Jim; McEwen forces Jim to emulate the natives in their fire-walking rite, and in so doing he loses his fear and soundly thrashes the villainous rival, winning the admiration of his bride-to-be.

Guilty? - 1930 - George B. Seitz (Dir) - Cast: Virginia Valli (Carolyn) - John Holland (Bob Lee) - John St. Polis (Polk) - Senator Daniel Polk is sentenced to prison for bribery on circumstantial evidence, and as a result his daughter, Carolyn, is ostracized by the young set. Later, she attracts the attention of Bob Lee, son of the judge who convicted Polk, and they fall in love. Polk is released on parole, and Bob and Carolyn become engaged. Judge Lee, now a senator, and Polk quarrel bitterly over the engagement, and Lee threatens to report him unless Carolyn refuses to marry his son; she agrees to do so. Realizing the unhappiness he has caused his daughter, Polk commits suicide with an insecticide purchased by Bob for his daughter; and though the evidence is circumstantial, Bob is convicted on a murder charge. But Carolyn finds her father's confession in a Bible at the last minute and saves the boy from execution.

Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) - Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a pair of AWOL doughboys on the loose in Paris during World War I. Slapstick comedy with sound.

Hampa dorada (Little Caesar) (1930)

Harold Lloyd - Feet First (1930) -
Harold Lloyd .... Harold Horne
Barbara Kent .... Barbara
Robert McWade .... John Quincy Tanner
Lillian Leighton .... Mrs. Tanner
Henry Hall .... Endicott

Headin' North (1930)- Cast: Bob Steele

Hell's Angels (1930) - This James Whale/Howard Hughes WWI drama is renowned for its stunning air combat scenes, which required 137 pilots to shoot, and for being the most expensive film of its time, costing a staggering $3.8 million. Oxford students and brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon, James Hall) sign up to fight with the Royal Flying Corps. Trouble arises when Roy¿s girlfriend, Helen (Jean Harlow), takes a liking to Monte. Monte, cracking under the pressure of fighting, considers another kind of betrayal. The brothers must wrestle to overcome these troubles--or a key flying mission could be jeopardized.

Hell's Heroes - 1930 - William Wyler (Dir) - Cast: Charles Bickford (Bob Sangster) - Raymond Hatton ("Barbwire" [Tom] Gibbons) - Fred Kohler ("Wild Bill" Kearney) - While waiting in the small frontier town of New Jerusalem for his three partners, "Barbwire" Tom Gibbons, "Wild Bill" Kearney and José, bandit Bob Sangster goes into the cantina to see Carmelita, a dance hall girl who loves him, thereby incurring the jealousy of the town's sheriff. That same afternoon, Bob meets his partners and robs the New Jerusalem bank, during which the teller and José are killed. Bob, Bill and a wounded Barbwire escape, aided by a sandstorm that delays the town posse's pursuit. After losing their horses in the storm, and with their water supply nearly exhausted, the bandits come upon a wagon with a delirious woman inside. Thinking that he will rob and have his way with her, Bob first gives the woman water, then discovers that she is about to give birth. Because she is alone, as the woman dies, she asks the bandits to be the child's godfathers and take the baby to his father, Frank Edwards, who is the bank teller in New Jerusalem. Shamed when they realize that they have killed the baby's father, the three bandits bury the woman and decide to return to New Jerusalem as promised. At first they feel burdened by the baby, but quickly become attached to him. On the trail, when Barbwire can no longer go on, he insists that his friends leave him, then shoots himself. In the middle of the night, after the baby has finished the last of the canned milk from the wagon, Bill sneaks away from their campfire, leaving a note for the sleeping Bob that this is his "Xmas" gift because three cannot survive on the small amount of water they have left. At first angry with the baby when he wakes up and reads Bill's note, Bob realizes that he, too, has grown to love the child and determines to reach New Jerusalem. Hours later, after he gives the baby the last drops of water from his canteen, Bob wanders desperately through the desert until he finds a small water hole. As soon as he tastes the water, he knows there is something wrong with it, then sees a sign stating the water contains arsenic. Frantic and hallucinating, Bob realizes that the only possible way to save the baby is to drink as much of the poisoned water as possible and hope that he has enough strength to reach New Jerusalem. As Christmas services are being held, Bob staggers into town and is barely able to enter the church before collapsing and dying with the baby still in his arms. A kind woman from the congregation then cares for the baby.

Her Wedding Night (1930) -

Hide-Out - 1930 - Reginald Barker (Dir) - Cast: James Murray (Jimmy Dorgan/Morley Wallace) - Kathryn Crawford (Dorothy Evans) - Carl Stockdale (Dorgan) - - Morley Wallace, whose real name is Jimmy Dorgan, returns to Crane University in the South, after escaping from Detective Burke, who has arrested him for illegal liquor activities. Wallace, who is a college hero as a result of his prowess on the boat crew, barely escapes a police raid on a roadhouse, where he goes with co-ed Dorothy Evans; and he decides to repent of his past. The day before a boating race, Burke finds Wallace, and, as a test, threatens to arrest him unless he throws the race. Wallace agrees to the proposition; but finding that he cannot go through with the treachery, he takes a winning lead. Assured of his decision to reform, Burke leaves him free to marry Dorothy.

High School Girl (1930) - Trials of a teenage girl growing up in the 1930s. An excellent drama classic portraying sexual attitudes in the 30s.

Hold Everything - 1930 - Roy Del Ruth (Dir) - Cast: Joe E. Brown (Gink Schiner) - Winnie Lightner (Totts Breen) - Georges Carpentier (Georges La Verne) - - At a training camp preparing for a heavyweight championship bout are Georges La Verne with Pop O'Keefe, his manager; Nosey Bartlett, the camp cook; and Gink Schiner, a lazy, second-rate fighter who is to appear in a preliminary before the big fight. Although Georges is pursued by society girl Norine Lloyd, he is more interested in Sue Burke, his advisor and childhood playmate; Toots, Gink's sweetheart, is constantly concerned over Gink's flirting with pretty girls. Larkin, manager of champion Bob Morgan, comes to the camp and attempts to have the fight "fixed," but O'Keefe informs him Georges will do his best. The Kicker is delegated by Larkin to incapacitate Georges at a party with a knockout pill, but Gink switches his drink with Nosey's. To everyone's surprise, Gink wins his bout. Before his fight, Georges is accosted by Morgan, and he fares badly in the ring until, with a change of tactics, he knocks out Morgan and wins the title.

Hook, Line & Sinker (1930) - A pretty heiress restores an old hotel.

Hunted Men - 1930 - J. P. McGowan (Dir) - Cast: Bob Steele - Jean Reno - Lew Meehan - - "The plot is just a variation on the villain and his gang trying to steal the gal's ranch, with the hero calling the turn at the proper moment." (from Film Daily, 25 May 1930).¡

Hurricane - 1930 - Ralph Ince (Dir) - Cast: Hobart Bosworth (Hurricane Martin) - Johnny Mack Brown (Dan) - Leila Hyams (Mary Stevens) - Captain Black and his band of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold in custody several sailors they have shanghaied, among them, Dan, a youth of good breeding. When Black observes the vessel of the feared Hurricane Martin approaching, he plots to get his men aboard that vessel, incite a mutiny, and seize the cargo. Hurricane's former wife, who deserted him 20 years earlier, her daughter, and a sailor are rescued from a lifeboat; and thirsting for revenge, Hurricane plans to marry the girl, Mary, to the pirate Captain Black, though the mother avows her own innocence with her dying breath. Dan, who has fallen in love with Mary, protects her from Black, but Hurricane downs the leader and quells the mutiny.

In Her Arms (1930) -

Isle of Escape - 1930 - Howard Bretherton (Dir) - Cast: Monte Blue (Dave Wade) - Myrna Loy (Moira) - Betty Compson (Stella) - : On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore near the hotel and reports having escaped from a nearby cannibal island. Stella has her servants, Manua and Loru, care for him, but Shane, to whom she is married but with whom she has never lived, orders him taken to his house, intent on stealing his gold. In a drunken orgy, Shane takes the gold, provoking a fight in which Stella aids Wade. When Ma Blackney dies and Stella recovers the gold, she suggests they go to another island and establish a trading business; but because of a misunderstanding, Stella is kidnaped by the natives and taken to the cannibal island. Disregarding their differences, Wade and Shane join forces and go to the island; Shane sacrifices himself to stall the cannibals while Stella and Wade flee to the sea.

IT'S HER WEDDING NIGHT (1930) -

Journey's End - 1930 - James Whale (Dir) - Cast: Colin Clive (Captain Stanhope) - Ian MacLaren (Lieutenant Osborne) - David Manners (2d Lieutenant Raleigh) - The action unfolds in the confined area of a dugout on the Western Front. Stanhope, a British Army officer, shattered by the strain of 3 years' fighting, turns to liquor to bolster his courage. Osborne, his righthand man and a philosophical schoolmaster, tries to reassure young Raleigh, fresh from school, to the satisfaction of Stanhope, whom the boy optimistically worships as a college hero. Although Stanhope, who loves Raleigh's sister, resents the boy's presence, he is crushed by the boy's spirit and loyalty in battle. He confesses his own fears to Hibbert, a coward who feigns illness to avoid fighting; Osborne and Raleigh are selected to lead a raiding party on the German trenches, and Osborne calms the boy by quoting from Alice in Wonderland and talking of home. Many men, including Osborne, die in the raid, and Stanhope drowns his grief in drink; a rift develops between him and the boy until Raleigh is mortally wounded. Friendless and grief-stricken, he goes to face another furious attack. ...

Juno and the Paycock (1930) -

King of Jazz (1930) -

L'Age D'Or (1930) - Luis Buñuel's second film is a surreal attack on bourgeios ideals that incited a riot when first released and still retains its power to shock. Buñuel began the film as a collaboration with Salvador Dali, but after a few days working together the two had a falling out and Buñuel made the film himself, incorporating many of Dali's ideas. Its narrative follows two nameless characters, a man and a woman, through a series of scenes connected by dreamlike logic as they try, unsuccessfully, to make love. One memorable sequence finds the couple writhing around on a cliff when a mob of socialites comes upon them and pries them apart. Frustrated, the man sees a yelping poodle and kicks it into the air. L'AGE D'OR is not only an attack on bourgeois life but also a doctrine that directs humanity to live as the surrealists believed they should: that is, by placing love before everything else in life, such as the church, status, and family. Funny, disturbing, and thoroughly bizarre, Buñuel's film is a purposefully blasphemous and corrosive work that attacks social institutions with such vigor and imagination that one cannot help but be entertained.

La canción de mi alma (Song o' my heart) (1930)

Ladies of Leisure - 1930 - Frank Capra (Dir) - Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Kay Arnold) - Ralph Graves (Jerry Strange) Lowell Sherman (Bill Standish) - Jeff Strong, the artistic son of a railroad magnate, walks out of his own party when he begins to feel alienated from the revelers. While driving along the waterfront, Jerry sees the bedraggled figure of a woman rowing a boat and stops to offer her a ride back to town. The woman, Kay Arnold, a call girl, tells Jerry that she has also escaped from a party and promptly falls asleep on his shoulder. As she sleeps, Jerry envisions her as the embodiment of his painting "Hope," and offers her a job as his model. The next day at his studio, Jerry begins to argue with Kay about her artificial and hardened appearance when his fiancée, Claire Collins, and his friend, Bill Standish, arrive. Bill finds Kay attractive just the way she is, and invites her to accompany him to Havana, but Kay has fallen in love with Jerry and begins to mold herself to please him. Soon frustrated by Jerry's constant criticisms, she lashes out at him, but later that evening she finally strikes the pose that he wants, and he paints into the night. When Kay collapses from exhaustion, Jerry insists that she sleep on his sofa, but the two spend a wakeful night of longing for each other. The next morning, Kay and Jerry are on the verge of declaring their love for each other when Mr. Strong appears and orders his son to stop seeing Kay. When Jerry refuses to follow his father's orders, Mr. Strong threatens to disown him. Disregarding his father's threat, Jerry decides to marry Kay and move to Arizona, but before they can leave, Mrs. Strong visits Kay and begs her to give Jerry up. Mrs. Strong's emotional plea touches Kay, and she agrees to forsake Jerry, then makes plans to go to Havana with Bill. As Kay leaves with Bill, her roommate, Dot Lamar, runs to tell Jerry that his mother has driven Kay away. Because the elevator man will not let her go up to Jerry's apartment unannounced, and cannot announce her because Jerry is on the phone, Dot must run up the twenty flights of stairs to his penthouse. By the time the overweight Dot arrives at Jerry's penthouse, Kay's ship has sailed, and Kay has decided to end her life by plunging into the icy water. After she jumps, however, she is rescued by a tugboat and awakens to find Jerry at her bedside.

Laurel and Hardy - Another Fine Mess (1930) - Laurel and Hardy escape the police by ducking into a lavish Beverly Hills mansion and posing as its owners. Stan's father penned the sketch on which this film was based, though it's the slapstick set-pieces, and a hilarious turn by Stan Laurel disguised as the maid, that make this one of the best Laurel and Hardy efforts.

Laurel and Hardy - Antics (1930) -

Laurel and Hardy - Blotto (1930) - It's a laugh riot when the boys sneak away from their domineering wives, wangle their way into the ritzy Rainbow Club, and get blotto!

Laurel and Hardy - Night Owls (1930) - Laurel and Hardy perform a bogus robbery.

Laurel and Hardy - Stan "Helps" Ollie (1930) - Four classics: "County Hospital," "Me and My Pal," "Hog Wild," and "Helpmates." includes home movie footage and behind the scenes stills.

Laurel and Hardy - The Lam (1930) - A collection of shorts featuring "Scram!," "Another Fine Mess," "One Good Turn" and "Going Bye Bye!." in this quartet, Stan and Ollie try to flee their troubles, but trouble always seems to catch up to them.

Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1930) - Authentic footage directed by the Marquise de la Falaise of the "Dance of the Virgins" and other dances performed by Balinese dancers on the island of Bali.

Lilies of the Field (1930) - Alexander Korda (Dir) - Cast: Corinne Griffith (Mildred Harker) - Ralph Forbes (Ted Willing) John Loder (Walter Harker)
- Innocent Mildred Harker is framed by her husband, Walter, in a divorce suit and loses custody of her child. Disillusioned and heartbroken, she takes up residence in a cheap hotel and becomes a showgirl at the New York Winter Palace Roof, where she meets a group of gold-digging "lilies." Ted Willing, a wealthy man-about-town, becomes her devoted admirer, but she is suspicious of accepting his financial help even when he mentions the whereabouts of her daughter. Later, she discovers that the child has forgotten her, and she accedes to Willing's proposal. During a party, she learns of her child's death, and, grief-striken, she rushes into the streets; she is fined for disorderly conduct, but Willing comes to the police station and she finds comfort in his arms.

Little Caesar - Hampa dorada (1930) - EE.UU D.: Mervyn LeRoy. I.: Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr..
La película narra la trayectoria criminal de un hombre. Rico comenzó su vida ejecutando pequeños robos y terminó su existencia como jefe de la banda de mafiosos más importante de la ciudad. Este papel fue determinante en la carrera de Edward G. Robinson, papel al que estuvo encadenado hasta su muerte en 1973, tras haberse despedido del cine con "Cuando el destino nos alcance".

Lone Defender (1930) - Rin-tin-tin is the lone defender in this 12-chapter serial that follows the k-9 as he and an agent from the Department of Justice follow the trail of the infamous Cactus Kid. This notorious bandit has stolen a mine map from a group treasurers, but he is no match for the intelligence of our favorite dog.

Loose Ankles (1930) - Ted Wilde (Dir) - Cast: Loretta Young (Ann Harper) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Gil Hayden) Louise Fazenda (Aunt Sarah Harper)
- Ann Harper is bequeathed $1 million provided that she marry a man who meets the approval of her Aunts Sarah and Katherine. Ann and her cousin Betty advertise for a man willing to undergo a temporary marriage for a cash consideration; Gil Hayden answers the advertisement, meets Ann, and falls in love with her in the process. Linton, a mercenary member of Gil's gigolo quartette, attempts to interest the girl; and she allows him to take her to a cafe. There she meets Gil along with her aunts--escorted by his gigolo friends who have come to spy on Ann. But the aunts become intoxicated on punch; and when the cafe is raided, they are saved by the gigolos. When Ann and Gil announce their marriage, Aunts Sarah and Katherine are forced to consent, to allay the exposure of their scandalous intrigue.

Love Among the Millionaires (1930) -

Love in the Rough (1930) -

Mammy (1930) - Al Fuller joins up with a group of hoboes--Slats, Flat Feet, and Pig Eyes--entertaining them with his songs and good humor. As they go to sleep around an open fire, he recalls the circumstances that led him to his present plight: As the end man in the Meadow Merry Minstrels, he is in love with Nora, the owner's daughter, who has a weakness for Westy, also in the act. The show is constantly in desperate straits, and when Al tries hard to amuse the local sheriff, they are surprised to learn he wants to invest in and join the act. They become prosperous and Al is able to go home to see his mother. Hoping to help Nora, he avows his love for her, provoking Westy's jealousy. Tambo, who has been exposed cheating at cards, causes Westy to be wounded in the act by Al. He is arrested but escapes on a freight bound for home; eventually Tambo confesses to the deed, and Al is thus proven innocent. Al Jolson .... Al Fuller Lois Moran .... Nora Meadows Lowell Sherman .... Westy Louise Dresser .... Mother

Marijuana Girl (1930) -

Marruecos (Morocco) (1930)

Men Without Law (1930)

Messenger of the Blessed Virgin (1930) - - Dorothy Vernon, who has had a happy life in a peaceful village with her parents, and her Uncle John, a happy-go-lucky artist, is paralyzed as the result of a fall incurred during a storm. In consequence, grief and unhappiness come to the family. Uncle John, traveling abroad, hears of the miracles of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes. An old woman recounts the story of Bernadette, a peasant girl of the Pyrenees, who is inspired by a vision of the Immaculate Conception. Under the direction of Abbé Peyromal of Lourdes, the villagers build a chapel at the grotto where Bernadette intercedes with the Virgin for the accomplishment of miraculous cures. The uncle cables Dorothy's parents, and they bring her to Lourdes, where through faith and prayer she is cured.

Mickey Mouse (1930) -