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Ann Vickers (1933) on 6 october 1933
, 1h16Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, Edna May Oliver, Sam Hardy
Rating61%
After a military officer (Bruce Cabot) gets Ann Vickers (Irene Dunne) pregnant and leaves her, her baby dies during birth. Feeling stunned, Ann devotes herself to social work, taking a job in a women's prison. However, when she tries to improve the conditions there, she loses her job. She instead writes a book about the harsh realities of the prison and begins a romance with a married judge, Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston). This helps her career but frustrates her wish for a family.
Gigolettes of Paris (1933) on 5 october 1933
, 1h4Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Madge Bellamy, Gilbert Roland, Natalie Moorhead, Theodore von Eltz, Henry Kolker, Molly O'Day
Rating56%
Ann Vickers (1933) on 6 october 1933
, 1h16Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Bruce Cabot, Conrad Nagel, Edna May Oliver, Sam Hardy
Rating61%
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) on 7 october 1933
, 1h8Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Dorothy Wellman, Sterling Holloway, Arthur Hohl, Ann Hovey
Rating74%
Tommy Gordon (Edwin Phillips) tells his friend Eddie Smith (Frankie Darro) that he is going to drop out of high school to look for work to help support his struggling family. Eddie offers to speak to his father (Grant Mitchell) about getting him a job, only discover that his father has himself just lost his own. Eddie sells his beloved car and gives the money to his father, but when his father remains unemployed, the bills keep piling up, and the family is threatened with eviction. Eddie and Tommy decide to leave home to ease the burden on their families.
I'm No Angel (1933) on 6 october 1933
, 1h27Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Circus films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Gregory Ratoff, Ralf Harolde, Mae West, Kent Taylor
Rating68%
Tira (Mae West) shimmies and sings in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend, pickpocket "Slick" (Ralf Harolde), relieves her distracted audience of their valuables for Big Bill (Edward Arnold). One of the rich customers arranges a private rendezvous, during which Slick barges in and attempts to run a badger game on the customer. The customer doesn't buy it and threatens to call the cops and Slick whacks him over the head with a bottle. Mistakenly thinking he has killed the man, Slick flees, but is caught and jailed.
The Bowery (1933) on 7 october 1933
, 1h32Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton, Herman Bing
Rating67%
In the Gay Nineties, on New York's Bowery, saloon owner Chuck Connors (Beery), finds that his rival, Steve Brodie (Raft), has thrown a muskmelon at his window. The happy-go-lucky Brodie explains that he threw the melon on a dare. As Connors threatens to fight him, the two learn of a fire in neighboring Chinatown. Both men call upon their volunteer fire brigades, and wager $100 on which will be the first to throw water on the fire.
Busy Bodies (1933) on 7 october 1933
, 19minutesDirected by Lloyd French
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Tiny Sandford, Jack Hill, Jack Hill
Rating76%
Stan and Ollie arrive in high spirits for their new jobs at the sawmill (Laurel operates a phonograph installed in the car as a kind of primitive "radio"). After walking into planks of wood Stan traps Ollie's hands in a window frame. After freeing him they trick a shop worker (Charlie Hall) into smoking despite a "No Smoking" sign. Stan then tears a strip off Ollie's pants with a plane and in the resulting 'tit for tat' dips a paintbrush in glue and sticks it onto Ollie's chin. Finding it is not possible to pull it off he prepares like a barber and shaves it with a plane. Ollie then gets propelled through a ventilator duct and out of an attic vent port.
Night Flight (1933) on 6 october 1933
, 1h24Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy
Rating61%
In South America, the daunting mountains and dangerous weather have hampered the operations of Trans-Andean European Air Mail, a 1930s-era airline. Charged with delivering a serum to stem an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Rio de Janeiro, Auguste Pellerin (Robert Montgomery) conquers his fears, but is reprimanded by the airline's stern director, A. Riviére (John Barrymore) for coming in late.
The Power and the Glory (1933) on 6 october 1933
, 1h16Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson, Henry Kolker, J. Farrell MacDonald
Rating65%
After the funeral service for Tom Garner (Spencer Tracy), a powerful and much-hated railroad tycoon who committed suicide, his best friend Henry (Ralph Morgan) recalls Garner's life, his family problems, and his rise from track walker to president of the railroad.
A Preferred List (1933) on 6 october 1933
Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ken Murray, Dorothy Lee, Chick Chandler
Rating22%