1930s

Reviews of films released in the 1930s

The 13th Man (1937)

A Burglar to the Rescue (1931)

The Ace Of Spades (1935)

The Adventures of the Masked Phantom (1939)
A Face in the Fog (1936)

A Fire Has Been Arranged (1935)
Air Devils (1938)

Airport (1935)
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
Alibi Breaker (1937)

Alibi for Murder (1936)
A Man Betrayed (1936)
Amateur Crook (1937)
The Amazing Adventure (1937)

Another Fine Mess (1930)
Anything to Declare? (1938)
Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
A Shot In The Dark (1935)
A Shriek in the Night (1933)
A Star Is Born (1937)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
At Twelve Midnight (1933)
The Avenging Hand (1936)

A Woman is the Judge (1939)

Bad Boy (1939)
Bank Alarm (1937)

The Barber Shop (1933)
Bar-Z Bad Men (1937)

The Bat Whispers (1930)

Beau Ideal (1931)
Beast of Berlin (1939)
The Beast of Borneo (1934)
Beauty and the Barge (1937)
Before Midnight (1933)
Before Morning (1933)
Below the Deadline (1936)
The Benson Murder Case (1930)
The Big Chance (1933)
The Black Abbot (1934)
The Black Camel (1931)

The Black Doll (1938)
Blake of Scotland Yard (1937)
Block-Heads (1938)
The Body Vanished (1939)
The Bold Cavalier (1936)

Border Guns (1934)
Border Patrolman (1936)

Brats (1930)
Bubbling Over (1934)

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
Bulldog Edition (1936)

Bulldog Jack (1935)

Burn 'Em Up Barnes (Serial) (1934)

Busy Bodies (1933)
By Appointment Only (1933)

By Whose Hand? (1932)

Cafe Hostess (1939)

Calling Philo Vance (1939)

Call the Mesquiteers (1938)
Captured in Chinatown (1935)

Cavalry (1936)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)

Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)

Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)

Charlie Chan in London (1934)

Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)

Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)

Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)

Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)

Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)

The Cheyenne Tornado (1935)

Child Bride (1938)

Cipher Bureau (1938)

Circumstantial Evidence (1935)

The Circus Show-Up (1932)
City in Darkness (1939)
Confidential (1935)
Corruption (1933)
The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935)

Cowboy Holiday (1934)

Crack-Up (1936)
Crashing Through Danger (1936)

The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
The Crooked Circle (1932)

The Crosby Case (1934)
Cross-Examination (1932)

The Crusader (1932)
Curtain at Eight (1933)
Cynara (1932)

Daily Beauty Rituals (1937)

Danger Ahead (1935)
Danger Flight (1939)
Danger Lights (1930)
Danger on the Air (1938)

Dangerous Paradise (1930)

Danger Trails (1935)

The Dark Hour (1936)

Dark Manhattan (1937)

Daughter of the Tong (1939)

The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Days of Jesse James (1939)

Dead End (1937)
Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Death from a Distance (1935)
The Death Kiss (1932)

Deluge (1933)
The Dentist (1932)
The Devil Diamond (1937)
The Devil to Pay! (1930)
The Devil Plays (1931)
Dick Tracy (Serial) (1937)
Dick Tracy's G-Men (Serial) (1939)
Discarded Lovers (1932)
Disorder in the Court (1936)
Doped Youth (1936)

Down to the Sea (1936)
Dracula (1931)
The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

The Dude Ranger (1934)

Escape by Night (1937)

Espionage (1937)
Exile Express (1939)
Extravagance (1930)

False Pretenses (1935)

The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

The Fighting Gentleman (1932)
Fire Over England (1937)

Flaming Frontiers (Serial) (1938)
Flash Gordon (Serial) (1936)

Frontier Scout (1938)
Fugitive Road (1934)
Fury Below (1936)

Gang Bullets (1938)

Gang Smashers (1938)
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
The Gay Nighties (1933)
The Ghost Camera (1933)
The Ghost Walks (1934)
The Ghoul (1933)

Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)

The Gold Racket (1937)

The Golf Specialist (1930)

The Great Air Mystery (Serial) (1935)
Great God Gold (1935)

Great Guy (1936)

The Great Hotel Murder (1935)
Grief Street (1931)

Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937)

Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)

Harlem is Heaven (1932)

Harlem on the Prairie (1937)
The Headline Woman (1935)
Held for Ransom (1938)
Hell Harbor (1930) 

Helpmates (1932)

Heroes for Sale (1933)
Heroes in Blue (1939)

Hideout in the Alps (1936)
Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)

Homicide Bureau (1939)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Hong Kong Nights (1935)
Hook, Line & Sinker (1930)

The Honor of the Press (1932)

Hoop-La (1933)

House of Danger (1934)

House of Mystery (1931)
House of Mystery (1934)
The House of Rothschild (1934)
The House of Secrets (1936)

How to Undress in Front of Your Husband (1937)
The Human Monster (1939)

I am a Criminal (1938)
I Can't Escape (1934)

I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

Illegal (1932)
I'll Name the Murderer (1936)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)

Indiscreet (1931)

In Old Santa Fe (1934)

Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
International Crime (1938)
The Invisible Killer (1939)
It Couldn't Have Happened (1936)

Jim Hanvey - Detective (1937)
Juggernaut (1936)

The Jury's Secret (1938)

Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Keystone Hotel (1935)
The King Murder (1932)
King of the Newsboys (1938)
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Klondike (1932)
Knee Deep in Music (1933)

The Lady in the Morgue (1938)

Lady Luck (1936)

La Grande Illusion (1937)
The Last Journey (1936)

The Last of the Clintons (1935)
The Law of 45's (1935)
Law of the Underworld (1938)

The League of Frightened Men (1937)
The Legion of Missing Men (1937)
Life Returns (1935)

Lightning Range (1933)

The Live Wire (1935)

London by Night (1937)

The Lone Defender (Serial) (1930)

The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938)
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Look Out Mr Moto (1938)
The Lost City (Serial) (1935)
Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Love Bound (1932)
Lucky Terror (1936)

The Mandarin Mystery (1936)

Mandrake, the Magician (Serial) (1939)

Manhattan Tower (1932)
Maniac (1934)

The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
The Man Outside (1933)
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)

Man With 100 Faces (1938)
The Marines Come Thru (1938)
Mariners of the Sky (1936)

Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
Midnight Phantom (1935)

The Midnight Warning (1932)

Missing Girls (1936)
Money Means Nothing (1934)
The Monster Walks (1932)
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
The Moonstone (1934)

Morocco (1930)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Motive for Revenge (1935) 

Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)

Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)

Mr Wong, Detective (1938)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
Murder at the Baskervilles (1937)
Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
Murder at Midnight (1931)
Murder by Television (1935)

Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)

Murder in the Clouds (1934)
The Murder in the Museum (1934)

Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Murder is News (1937)

Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
Murder on the Campus (1933)

Murder with Pictures (1936)

The Music Box (1932)
Music Hall (1934)

Mutiny in the Big House (1939)

The Mysterious Miss X (1939)

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)

Mystery House (1938)
Mystery Liner (1934)

The Mystery Man (1935)
The Mystery of Mr Wong (1939)

The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (1937)
The Mystery Squadron (Serial) (1933)
The Mystery Train (1931)

Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

Nancy Steele is Missing! (1937)
Night Alarm (1934)

Night of Terror (1933)
Night Work (1930)

The Ninth Guest (1934)
Non-Stop New York (1937)
North of Arizona (1935)

Officer 13 (1932)
The Oklahoma Cyclone (1930)

The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Oliver the Eighth (1934)

Once in a New Moon (1935)
One Frightened Night (1935)
The Outer Gate (1937)

Panama Patrol (1939)

Panic on the Air (1936)
Paradise Express (1937)
Paradise Island (1930)

Party Girl (1930)
Passenger to London (1937)
The Pay-Off (1930)
Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

The Perils of Pauline (Serial) (1933)
The Phantom (1931)
The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
The Phantom Cowboy (1935)
The Phantom Creeps (Serial) (1939)

The Phantom Empire (Serial) (1935)

The Phantom Express (1932)
The Phantom Fiend (1932)

The Phantom Light (1935)

The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
Phantom Patrol (1936)
The Pharmacist (1933)
Picture Brides (1934)

Pilot X (1936)
Police Court (1932)
Police Patrol (1933)
The Port of Lost Dreams (1934)

Port of Missing Girls (1938)
Postal Inspector (1936)
The President's Mystery (1936)

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Prison Break (1938)

Prison Shadows (1936)

Q Planes (1939)

Raffles (1939)

The Rage of Paris (1938)

Range Riders (1934)
Reaching for the Moon (1930)

Rebellion (1936)
Red Haired Alibi (1932)
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937)
The Return of Chandu (Serial) (1934)
Religious Racketeers (1938)
Rhythm Racketeer (1937)
The Riverside Murder (1935)
The Road to Ruin (1934)

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)

Roaring Roads (1935)

Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)
The Rogues Tavern (1936)

Rome Express (1932)

Sabotage (1936)

The Savage Girl (1932)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Sea Racketeers (1937)
Secret Agent (1936)

The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)

Secret of the Blue Room (1933)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

Seven Sinners (1936)

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
The Shadow (1933)

The Shadow Laughs (1933)
The Shadow Strikes (1937)

She (1935)
Sky Patrol (1939)
Six-Shootin' Sheriff (1938)

Shadow of Chinatown (Serial) (1936)
Shadows of the Orient (1935)
Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)

The Skull Murder Mystery (1932)

The Sign of Four (1932)

The Silent Passenger (1935)

The Silent Witness (1932)
The Silver Trail (1937)
Sinful Cargo (1936)

Sing Sing Nights (1934)
Sinister Hands (1932)
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Sin Takes A Holiday (1930)

Slander House (1938)
Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Smart Blonde (1937)

Sons of the Desert (1933)

SOS Coast Guard (Serial) (1937)

The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)

Special Inspector (1938)

The Speckled Band (1931)

Speak Easily (1932)
Special Agent K-7 (1937)
The Sphinx (1933)

The Spider (1931)

Star of Midnight (1935)

Star Reporter (1939)
Stars on Parade (1936)

Stormy Trails (1936)

Strange People (1933)
Strangers of the Evening (1932)
Streamline Express (1935)

Sucker Money (1933)

Sued for Libel (1939)
Sunset Murder Case (1938)

Swiss Miss (1938)

Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Telephone Operator (1937)

Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
The Terror (1938)
Terror of the Plains (1934)

Towed in a Hole (1932)
Texas Terror (1935)

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)
Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)

Them Thar Hills (1934)

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

Things to Come (1936)
Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

The Thirteenth Chair (1937)

Thrill of Youth (1932)

Thru Traffic (1935)
Thunder in the Desert (1938)

Time Out for Murder (1938)

Tombstone Canyon (1932)
Tomorrow At Seven (1933) 

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932)
Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
Trapped by Television (1936)
Trouble Busters (1933)

The Trusted Outlaw (1937)

Twice Two (1933)

The Wall Street Mystery (1931)

Waterfront Lady (1935)
The Way of the West (1934)
Wayne Murder Case (1932)

West of the Divide (1934)
What Price Crime (1935)
When Thief Meets Thief (1937)

The Whispering Shadow (Serial) (1933)
White Zombie (1932)

Who Killed Gail Preston? (1938)
Windjammer (1937)

Wings Over Africa (1936)

The Witness Chair (1936)

The Witness Vanishes (1939)

The Woman Condemned (1934)

Woman Unafraid (1934)
The World Gone Mad (1933)
The Wrong Road (1937)

Undercover Agent (1939)

Undersea Kingdom (Serial) (1936)
Under the Big Top (1938)
Unfaithful (1931)
Uptown New York (1932)

The Vampire Bat (1933)

The Vanishing Shadow (Serial) (1934)

Yellowstone (1936)

Young and Innocent (1937)
Youth on Parole (1937)

Zorro's Fighting Legion (Serial) (1939)