DISCS ARE PLAYABLE UK/EUROPE/AUSTRALASIA, R2/R4. ALL-REGIONS PLAYER REQUIRED ELSEWHERE
Another Language - 1933
Stella and Victor meet in Europe, fall deeply in love, and marry soon thereafter. Then they sail back to the States to meet Victor's awful family
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Louise Closser Hale
August Week End - 1936
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Valerie Hobson, Paul Harvey G.P.Huntley, Betty Compson, Frank Melton, Edgar Norton
Berkeley Square - 1933
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne, Colin Keith-Johnston
Bought! - 1931
Quality: 5/10 (good audio, poor dark print)
Stars: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, Richard Bennett, Dorothy Peterson, Ray Milland
Comet Over Broadway - 1938
The story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes with her obsessive ambition
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
Danger Ahead - 1935
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Lawrence Gray, Sheila Bromley, Fuzzy Knight, Bryant Washburn
Daughter Of Shanghai - 1937
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe
Easy Living - 1937
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
Ebb Tide - 1937
Quality: 5/10 (poor/very little technicolor left!)
Stars: Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland
Finishing School - 1934
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers
Five and Ten - 1931
Quality: 8.5/10 occasional logo
Stars: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett, Irene Rich
Fog Over Frisco - 1934
The lifestyles of two half-sisters from a respected San Francisco family diverge as one of them falls in with a criminal gang
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Asta
Footlight Parade - 1933
Chester Kent struggles against all odds to produce spectacular live prologues for movie houses
Quality: 9/10
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Fugitive In The Sky - 1936
A reporter tried to get the scoop when he spots a Detective on a plane he's flying on, who ison the trail of a killer
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Jean Muir, Warren Hull, Gordon Oliver
The Gay Divorcee - 1934
An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets a dashing performer
Quality: 8.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Girl In Danger - 1934
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster
Quality: 7.5/10, some sync issues, logo onscreen
Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl
Girl Loves Boy - 1937
The playboy son of a well-to-do family falls for the daughter of an impoverished widow, much to his Father's displeasure
Quality: 8.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhof, Dorothy Peterson
Girls About Town - 1931
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Kay Francis, Liliyan Tashman. Joel McCrea
Gold Diggers Of 1933
Superb, fun, sexy pre-code Hollywood musical hijinks from 1933
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Warren William, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Gold Diggers Of 1935
Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
The Green Goddess - 1930
An airplane carrying Major Crespin, his wife Lucille and Dr. Trahern, crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh where Rajah holds them prisoner as his brothers are about to be executed by the Brits
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce
Holiday - 1930
Holiday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family
Quality: rotten print, barely watchable, theaudio is very good (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Hedda Hopper, William Holden, Robert Ames
The House Of Secrets - 1936
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments
Quality: 7.5/10, US
Stars: Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison
The House On 56th Street - 1933
During WWI, Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress to London Fiske, marries her beau Monte Van Tyle. They move into their new home and start a family, but Monte he is called up and is killed in action. Then her past comes back to haunt her
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
I Am A Thief - 1934
A collection of shady characters try to get their hands on a priceless diamond necklace whilst travelling onboard the Orient Express
Quality: 9/10 (plays R2/4)
Stars: Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
I Am Suzanne - 1933
Tony Malatini is a puppeteer in Paris at Theatre des Marionettes but with failing attendance. He checks out a competitor and is mesmerised by their fantastic dancer Suzanne, who is pulling the crowds
Quality: 6/10, tinted print (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Lilian Harvey, Gene Raymond, Leslie Banks
The Idle Rich - 1929
Class comedy in which millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary and marries her and ends up at odds with her family
Quality: 8.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Conrad Nagel, Bessie Love, Leila Hyams
If You Could Only Cook - 1935
An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler
Quality: 8.5/10, logo
Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
The Invisible Menace - 1938
An army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven
Island Of Lost Men - 1939
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Eric Blore
It's Love I'm After - 1937
An actor of the stage finds himself pursued by a lovestruck fan while trying to patch up a tempestuous relationship with his actress lover
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
Just Imagine - 1930
US produced futuristic Sci-Fi drama
Quality: 7/10
Stars: El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick
Jennie Gerhardt - 1933
A poor girl falls for a President and ends up pregnant. Her fortunes change and they plan to marry but fate brings tragedy
Quality: 6.5/10
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor
The Keyhole - 1933
Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. She marries a millionaire then Maurice turns up again, after money
Quality: 9/10, occasional logo
Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell
The Kennel Murder Case - 1933
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue
Quality: 7.5/10, logo (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
The Last Gentleman - 1934
'This is one of the best movies I have ever seen ! I know of no one else who has ever seen it, unfortunately, because it is rarely shown on TV. It is simply hilarious'
Quality: 7/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: George Arliss, Edna May Oliver, Janet Beecher
The Live Wire - 1935
A sailor finds an ancient vase on an uncharted island. He is later hired by archaeologists to lead them back to the island where they discover the temples of a lost civilisation
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Richard Talmadge, Alberta Vaughn, George Walsh
Lonely Wives - 1931
Romantic Pre-code comedy about a lonely husband who hires a look-a-like to take his place and fool his mother-in-law, while he plays around with a pretty coquette during his wife's absence
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante
Manhattan Tower - 1932
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Mary Brian, Irene Rich, James Hall, Hale Hamilton
The Most Dangerous Game - 1932
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
Old English - 1930
An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren
Quality: 6/10
Stars: George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, Harrington Reynolds Jones - 1941
Murder On A Honeymoon - 1935
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
Outcast Lady - 1934
A woman's trials and tribulations over a romance since childhood, protecting her husband's secret past, and the trouble it causes with her brother
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Mrs Patrick Campbell
Page Miss Glory - 1935
A country girl comes to New York City meets a photographer with big ideas. Lots of cons, complications, romance and wacky fun
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Patsy Kelly, Frank McHugh
On Borrowed Time - 1939
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of death with the help of a magical apple tree
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi
Penguin Pool Murder - 1932
Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a New York aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
Say It In French - 1938
In this farcical comedy, a couple with money woes arrange a financially motivated marriage between their golf-pro son and a wealthy heiress. Little do they know, their son has already been wed while playing a tournament in France
Quality: 6.5/10
Stars: Ray Milland, Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Mary Carlisle
The Plough And The Stars - 1936
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army
Quality: 5/10 (poor print/first few seconds missing)
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald
Rendezvous - 1935
Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes
Quality: 9/10
Stars: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
Sensation Hunters - 1933
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-classers on a south-bound ocean liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna, Juanita Hansen
Street Scene - 1931
A romantic drama set in a sweltering tenement street during high Summer
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
There's That Woman Again - 1938
A Detective working on a stolen jewellery case notices that his wife is getting strangely eager to get involved
Quality: 6-7/10
Stars: Melvin Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Margaret Lindsay
Street Of Chance - 1930
An interesting 1930's take on gambling addiction
Quality: 6.5/10
Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey, Betty Francisco
Virtue - 1932
A streetwise NY girl and a good-hearted cab driver meet when she stiffs him for the fare. They get together but things keep getting in their way, including money and murder
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Ward Bond, Shirley Grey, Mayo Methot
The Talk Of Hollywood - 1929
A film Producer tries to move into the big budget league with fairly disastrous results, in this typically racy pre-code musical comedy
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Nat Carr, Fay Marbe, Hope Sutherland
They Made Her A Spy - 1939
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to expose the culprits
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber
We're Rich Again - 1934
The wedding of their daughter brings many surprises, including a determined bill collector, a bad business venture, an elopement, and an unexpected windfall. They all add up to a barrel of one-liners and slapstick
Quality: 8/10, US
Stars: Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Marian Nixon
Windjammer - 1937
A gun-running, yachting high seas crime adventure
Quality: 8/10
Stars: George O'Brien, Constance Worth, William Hall, Brandon Evans
We Are Not Alone - 1939
A husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, WWII is in the air and anti-German sentiment is on the rise
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Paul Muni, Una O'Connor, Jane Bryan