Young Desire

Young Desire 1930

5.00

A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.

1930

Mamba

Mamba 1930

4.50

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.

1930

Mammy

Mammy 1930

5.80

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another (Lowell Sherman). Sherman is shot onstage as part of a comedy bit, and it is assumed that Jolson is guilty of putting the bullet in the gun.

1930

Hello Sister

Hello Sister 1930

1.00

Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.

1930

Island of Perils

Island of Perils 1930

1

Documentary about life and struggle of the people on the lonely island of Stora Dimun in the Faroe Islands.

1930

Schoolmates

Schoolmates 1930

1

Judy (Ann Christy), dresses as a boy in order to attend the ceremony where "Cudgie" (Sumner Getchell) is being inducted into a fraternity at the college. The sign over the door at the fraternity has been moved, to fool her, to a building where, unknown to the frat boys, a notorious criminal is hiding.

1930

Añoranzas

Añoranzas 1930

6.00

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Añoranzas", vals written and composed by José María Aguilar.

1930

Jungle Jazz

Jungle Jazz 1930

3.00

In this early synchronized sound cartoon from the Van Beuren cartoon factory, a dog and cat encounter huge, strange and terrifying creatures in the jungle. They seek refuge in a missionary hits, where they play an organ, which causes the animals to dance. They are captured by cannibals, but escape and lead the jungle animals in song.

1930

Bock Beer Fest

Bock Beer Fest 1930

1

Underwear manufacturer Livius Heintze is a vehement anti-alcoholic and thus is very much against the marriage of his daughter Hedwig to the brewery owner Raumert. Heintze's second, illegitimate daughter Emmi also wants to give her father a heart attack by marrying the hops merchant Seidl.

1930

The Squeaker

The Squeaker 1930

1

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

1930

Hell's Angels

Hell's Angels 1930

6.50

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

1930

L'Âge d'or

L'Âge d'or 1930

6.80

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

1930

Forty Winks

Forty Winks 1930

8.00

There's no real plot here: just a string of gags on the theme of sleep, or trying to get to sleep. First, Felix and a quartet of feline Felix clones are yowling while a man is trying to sleep; then Felix encounters various obstacles in his own attempts to tryst with Morpheus.

1930

Love's Carnival

Love's Carnival 1930

5.50

Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His fiancée is said to have been unfaithful during his 4-week absence on official business. The fabricated rumors allege an affair between Traute and Oberleutnant Grobitzsch.

1930

Naughty Husbands

Naughty Husbands 1930

1

'Convict dreams he runs marriage agency and tries to supply wife for man already married.' (British Film Catalogue)

1930

Brats

Brats 1930

6.80

Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

1930