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I give it a tie, with Footlight Parade one of the funniest and quickest of the early Thirties musicals.
The sets are outstanding and very impressive, the idea of a devastating world war starting in the late thirties seems like prophecy for a 1936 film, the dictator of "Everytown" is pure Mussolini and Raymond Massey is just charming, believable and ideally cast as "the hero".
She never married and at some point in her thirties had come home to recuperate.
Indeed, one can see parallels between this mystical, evil nationalist and a certain well known figure of the thirties( A German, not an Indian).
Also, the music is very original and very memorable, and I think superior to many musicals from the thirties through the sixties.
Splendid performances and thirties flavor make this the must see version of the classic novel.
Scripted by Charles Bennett, who had written for Hitchcock in the thirties and also later penned the excellent script for the classic British horror film Night of the Demon.
Apart from the usual stereotypes of the thirties, Eugene Pallette as the gruff police detective, Jack La Rue as the "swarthy" Italian and of course, James Lee as "The Chinese Cook", this film is THE great mystery of a murder in a locked room.
The thirties horror films that are best remembered are always the likes of Dracula and Frankenstein; and there's a very good reason for that, but there were a number of smaller but nevertheless excellent productions, and The Invisible Ray is certainly one of them.
As to the secondary casting, this movie (as one would expect from a movie made in the late thirties) has many an enjoyable character actor, but top kudos' to Andrew Jackson's right hand man Peavey.
The master did it great even before his thirties!
Her role is quite Thirties and contemporary for its time; the last of the flapper/Jazz Baby roles were being shown on screen and now, with the onset of female independence, women as professionals were being represented in film.
Each of the major studios cranked out jazzy one-reelers throughout the thirties and forties (with Universal taking the lead).
I'm glad that I'm in my thirties and not my twenties.
Both actors achieve a natural quality on screen rarely equaled in thirties films.
The back-story behind Warner Bros.' JEZEBEL -- itself widely regarded among critics and connoisseurs of the films of Bette Davis (and the late Thirties in general) as that of a consolation film given to Davis when the "hunt" for Scarlett O'Hara was in full swing -- is as long and convoluted as the tangled passions within the story shown on screen.
If men in their thirties and forties sporting Buster Brown haircuts and silver jumpsuits is your idea of a menacing brigade of androids, then this flick is for you.
A friend of mine who watched this film with me told me that he was unable to sleep for the rest of the night because of this film...and we're talking about a grown man in his late thirties!
Beautiful Budapest, end of the thirties.
It was obviously a swan song (she'd only make three more musicals in the later thirties) for her career and a typical "B" picture of the period.
On one of their outings, Amy meets a black man, Roland, who is a tour guide in his thirties, and they become romantically involved.
In the Depression era of the thirties this would probably have been regarded by most Americans as a good living wage, but it is not enough to keep Carolyn in the middle-class style to which she has become accustomed.
Before her marriage she worked as a model earning $50 per week, but Michael has old-fashioned views about married women working (old-fashioned by today's standards if not those of the thirties) and refuses to let her go out to work.
Tripp is a man in his thirties who still lives with his parents.
Everything seems so accurate, it is always a pleasure with movies depicting the thirties...
The difference between making the movie today, than back then, would be the lack of melodrama between the William and Damita character (heck! it was the era of the woman's picture) Formulaic stuff but good formula all the same with an unusually expensive look (good cinematography, tons of location shooting, great sets, lots of wide shots) for a WB thirties picture tells you this was probably an expected blockbuster in the year of 1932.
The best thing about it I think is the amazingly convincing portrayal of a character who ages from her early teens to her early thirties.
It plays with the facts as usual,Ruth Etting was well into her thirties before she went Hollywood.
I enjoy watching Cary Grant may a fool of himself, he will do what it takes to make a movie funny, but the star of this movie is Myrna Loy, she was in her forties, but she look like she was only in her thirties, and still sexy.
A great picture of the sleazy side of life in the thirties before the Hays commission took over.
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