Title: Cavalcade
Year: 1933
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor
Director: Frank Lloyd
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Is It Any Good?: Drab, it’s just drab. A film like this which was pegged as “The Picture of the...
Title: Grand Hotel
Year: 1932
Starring: John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Greta Grabo
Director: Edmund Goulding
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Is It Any Good?: Not too shabby. While some of the dialogue seems overly melodramatic, and it looses some steam...
Title: Cimarron
Year: 1931
Starring: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Is It Any Good?: No, no it isn’t. Not only does Cimarron blow its the whole load within the first 15...
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Year: 1929/30
Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
Director: Lewis Milestone
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Is It Any Good?: Great. It’s an early war epic. Its anti-war sentiment is masked rather well,...
Under the lens takes a deep look at films by focusing in on one or two particular areas of the picture that helped to define it for better or for worse. Spoilers will be included...
Title: The Broadway Melody
Year: 1928
Starring: Charles King, Anita King, Bessie Love
Director: Harry Beaumont
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Is It Any Good?: It’s less than good. It doesn’t hold up nearly the way Wings does despite...
