30's Recommendations

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Yeah i've seen The Public Enemy too, forgot about that since i watched that a while ago and i watched the other four in one week. I quite liked that but i think i was a bit burnt out on Cagney gangster films when i watched it as i had just watched Angels With Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties and Dead End before it. I'd have it above Dead End and below the other two personally. Angels With Dirty Faces is incredibly dark and depressing too,

The old man in GD33 was Guy Kibbee who was pretty big in the 30s. You saw him in Captain Blood too, as well as his being in all the big WB musicals of the early 30s and a few Capras.

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OMG! I just took it as i had never seen him in anything else that's nuts that i saw him in that a few days earlier and didn't realize. I've definitely got so many people mixed up during this decade, especially actresses. I think 30's films followed in-styles rigorously coz in all the films in the early 30's the women have that shortish kind of bobcut thing then later in the decade, long often tied up hair is constant. I have no idea if those were the styles at the time but that's something i've noticed about Hollywood women in the 30's films i've watched and it feels like there was some consultant for the studios reporting on the latest trends. Although Hollywood of course set many of the fashion trends then in a larger way than now so who knows what i'm even talking about.

It's rather hit-or-miss. I know it isn't a popular Hitchcock film, but I did enjoy it.

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My favourite 30s films are:
TRouble in Paradise (1932). SO funny, with everyone in it absolutely perfect.
la Kermesse Heroique (1935). period comedy set in Flanders, so funny.
the goose and the Gander (1935). everyone turns out to be an imposter.
FIrst A Girl (1935). A girl pretending to be a boy pretending to be a girl.
GOod Morning, Boys! (1937). WIll Hay as a very dodgy schoolmaster.
ASk A Policeman (1939). WIll Hay as a policeman creating chaos with Graham Moffat and Moore Marriott.

Come and Get It

I'm a big fan of Doctor X. Very stylish with fun mad scientists.
Svengali is really good, but not really horror-ish as advertised.
I think Son of Frankenstein is fun and underrated too, if you like the weird expressionistic sets. It has my favorite Lugosi performance.
The Invisible Ray is pretty good too; also w/ Karloff and Lugosi.

... and somewhat more well known, but I also love Vampyr and the '39 Hound of the Baskervilles.

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[Number Seventeen (1932)] Hitchcock referred to it as "a disaster". But he blamed his carelessness-- that he had not stepped back to look at the entirety of the movie. The film had been assigned to him by British International, as opposed to one he would have chosen himself. Reportedly it did have a pretty good chase scene for the day, mostly accomplished with miniatures. The film ran about an hour. I'm not sure I ever saw it.


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I thought it was awful, the worst I’ve seen from him

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Here's my 30s watchlist. I obviously won't manage to watch 'em all, but I have doubts whether any of them will make my list.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Not as highly regarded as atleast 3 of their 30s films, but I definitely recommend not skipping this one if you're going through the Marx Bros filmography

I'm going to be getting a filmstruck account to watch some of the Criterion releases from the 1930s, any recs?

Definitely going to start with Modern Times and Boudu Saved from Drowning

The Mascot

I don't have a specific recommendation, but if you like 30s comedy trying checking some movies from the other big names in comedy.

The Story of a Cheat

If you liked Wes Anderson's, The Grand Budapest Hotel, check it out.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles