Movies 1931 Page 31

A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.

A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

Caught by Archduke Max in an embarrassing situation with Marie-Charlote, Captain Rudi is forced into marriage. Yet he approaches actress Josefine,...

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three,...

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.

Former soldier Maurice Tabret returns home unhurt to marry his wife, Stella. Shortly after, he is paralyzed from the waist down in a tragic airplane...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.

Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards...

A wife uses the pretext, that her American husband refuses to kiss her on the lips, to divorce him. Later after she is remarried he tries in vain to...

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

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...

Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.

A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.

Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted from the more simply...

Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic locales as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides...

Karl Dane's restaurant patron and George K. Arthur's waiter drunkenly trade places.

Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a...

A sound remake of "Mickey's Eleven", in which the gang play yet another game of football against Stinky Davis.

Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.

There is a sensational jewel robbery at the home of one of the leaders of the Boston Back Bay aristocracy, and a Count d'Alencourt is arrested on the...

All the Dutch Van Beuren animals wearing clogs and making.... swiss cheese?!

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

A Texas Ranger who loves a dance hall girl must bring her in when she is charged with murder.

High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars...

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...

In Hell's Valley, Texas Ranger Captain Wally kills Jose Valdez, leading Jose's brothers, Carlos and Manuel, to seek revenge at the Flores ranch....

Mickey takes Pluto fishing in a boat on a lake, but they aren't too successful. The fish mock them, and even steal the bait can. Finally, the game...

A lost submarine discovers a secret island where dinosaurs still live. The film, 20 minutes long, was scrapped by RKO. Approximately 4 minutes...

During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.

Tracing the course of the river Dart, from its source on Dartmoor to Dartmouth. Made in 1931 by the pupils and teachers of Altrincham County High...