As You Desire Me 1932  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper, Rafaela Ottiano, Albert Conti, Roland Varno, Warburton Gamble, William Ricciardi, Edmund Breese
Amnesiac Zara (Greta Garbo) is reunited with her husband (Melvyn Douglas) after her 10-year disappearance caused by violence during the Australian invasion. Despite her amnesia, she falls in love with him again.
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Bad Girl 1931  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, Frank Darien, Paul Fix, William Pawley, Edmund Breese, Sarah Padden, Irving Bacon, Louis Natheaux
A couple have had trouble making ends meet until a new baby arrives. Frank Borzage won an Academy Award as Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture.
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Cabin in the Cotton 1932 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Henry B. Walthall, Berton Churchill, Hardie Albright, Tully Marshall, Clarence Muse, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, David Landau, Russell Simpson
A rich landowner, Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess), befriends one of his sharecroppers and teaches her to read. Then he learns of evil deeds performed by BOTH sharecroppers and land owners and is forced to reckon with problems inherent in his economic class-system.
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 Duck Soup 1933  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Edmund Breese, Louis Calhern, Margaret Dumont, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Middleton, Edwin Maxwell, Raquel Torres, Verna Hillie, Leonid Kinskey, William Worthington, Eric Mayne
Wealthy Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) donates $20 million to Freedonia with the provision that it will make Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) its dictator. The deal is made, and Firefly immediately frustrates his cabinet and offends the neighboring country of Sylvania. War is inevitable, and Sylvania sends Chicolini (Chico Marx) and Pinky (Harpo Marx) to spy on Firefly and become members of his cabinet. Firefly declares war on Sylvania, and after more than a few double-crosses, Freedonia wins. This movie is silly, zany, crafty, and VERY entertaining.
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Fighting with Kit Carson 1933  N/R, 200 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Betsy King Ross, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr., Tully Marshall, Robert Warwick, Edmund Breese, Al Bridge, Lafe McKee, Edward Hearn, Jack Mower, Lane Chandler
In this 12-episode serial, Kit Carson (Johnny Mack Brown) leads a wagon train carrying government gold. The "Mystery Riders" plan on stealing the gold and finally succeed. Kit, with the help of the cavalry, sets out to retrieve the cargo.
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Girls Gone Wild 1929 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, William Russell, Roy D'Arcy, Leslie Fenton, Hedda Hopper, John Darrow, Edmund Breese, Fred MacMurray, Lumsden Hare
A wild young woman has a falling out with her boyfriend after his father arrests her for speeding. Later, the boyfriend saves the day and regains her love. The first movie for Fred MacMurray, who was an extra. Silent.
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The Hatchet Man 1932 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges, Leslie Fenton, J. Carrol Naish, Edmund Breese, Tully Marshall, Charles Middleton, Noel Madison, Blanche Friderici
Life during an earlier era in San Francisco's Chinatown is depicted in this story about love and ethnic conventions involving ritual executioner Wong Low Get (Edward G. Robinson) and his bride, Toya (Loretta Young).
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The Hurricane Express 1932 N/R, 225 min.
Genre: Action
Director: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer
Cast: Tully Marshall, Conway Tearle, John Wayne, Shirley Grey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Matthew Betz, James P. Burtis, Lloyd Whitlock, Joseph W. Girard, Edmund Breese, Al Bridge, Charles King
In this 12-episode serial, trains are being wrecked by "The Wrecker," a master of disguises. After pilot Larry's (John Wayne) father is killed in one of the wrecks, Larry is determined to find the culprit, despite the red herrings thrown up before him.
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Kismet 1930 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer, Montagu Love, Ford Sterling, Theodore von Eltz, John St. Polis, Edmund Breese, Blanche Friderici, Richard Carlyle, John Sheehan, Otto Hoffman, Noble Johnson
Baghdad beggar Haji (Otis Skinner) makes his way into the palace inner-circle where he romances Wazir Mansur's (Sidney Blackmer) "head wife" Zeleekha (Mary Duncan) while his daughter Marsinah (Loretta Young) falls in love with Caliph Abdallah (David Manners). Fate plays a big role in this captivating story.
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Lost in the Stratosphere 1934  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese, Lona Andre, Cactus Mack, Russ Clark, Matt McHugh, June Gittelson, Hattie McDaniel, Pauline Garon, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Military pilots Lt. Tom "Soapy" Cooper and Lt. Richard "Woody" Wood (William Cagney and Edward J. Nugent) are also pranksters–until one of their practical jokes misfires, and they find themselves in a weather balloon "lost in the stratosphere." (William Cagney is James Cagney's brother.)
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Madame Butterfly 1932 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marion Gering
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Sandor Kallay, Irving Pichel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Edmund Breese, Wallis Clark, Sheila Terry, Berton Churchill
In this film, Puccini's opera is the basis for the story, but there is no music. The movie follows the traditional storyline of Lieutenant Pinkerton's (Cary Grant) tragic love affair with Cho-Cho-San (Sylvia Sidney).
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 Mata Hari 1931 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C. Henry Gordon, Karen Morley, Alec B. Francis, Blanche Friderici, Edmund Breese, Helen Jerome Eddy, Frank Reicher, Sarah Padden
The infamous World War I spy, Mata Hari (Greta Garbo), uses her sexuality to get her hands on secret papers but is finally caught after falling in love with Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and allowing love, not the Nazis, to govern her actions.
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Millie 1931 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, Joan Blondell, John Halliday, James Hall, Anita Louise, Edmund Breese, Frank McHugh, Charlotte Walker, Charles Delaney, Harry Stubbs, Harvey Clark
Millie (Helen Twelvetrees) has been unlucky in love more than a few times over the years, but, unlike her gold digging friends Angie and Helen (Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman), Millie has made a living on her own. Now, one of her long-lost suitors, Jimmy (John Halliday), has returned and is pursuing Millie's 16-year-old daughter, Connie (Anita Louise). Millie warns Jimmy to stay away from Connie, he ignores her, and Millie shoots and kills him when she catches him seducing Connie. Millie is acquitted, however, after Connie testifies and tells what really happened the night Jimmy was killed.
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The Painted Desert 1931 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Higgin
Cast: William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum, J. Farrell MacDonald, Clark Gable, Charles Sellon, Edmund Breese, Al St. John, Wade Boteler, Jim Mason
This Western marks Clark Gable's talkie-film debut. The story involves a romantic triangle taking place in the midst of a family feud.
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Platinum Blonde 1931  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Louise Closser Hale, Donald Dilloway, Reginald Owen, Walter Catlett, Edmund Breese, Halliwell Hobbes, Claud Allister
When a newsman, Stew Smith (Robert Williams), marries the very wealthy Ann Schuyler (Jean Harlow), he finds that society life is not always to his liking and seeks solace from a female reporter, Gallagher (Loretta Young).
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Treasure Island 1934 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Lewis Stone, William V. Mong, Douglass Dumbrille, Charles "Chic" Sale, Charles McNaughton, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Breese, Olin Howland, Charles Irwin, Edward Pawley
In this good rendition of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic tale, South Seas adventures abound. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) has obtained a treasure map from former pirate Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) following his death. Jim tells Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce) about the map, and the three of them book passage on a ship to recover the treasure. But problems lie ahead because among the ship's crew are pirates, including Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), who are plotting to get their hands on Jim's treasure map.
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| 1. As You Desire Me (1932)
2. Bad Girl (1931)
3. Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
4. Duck Soup (1933)
5. Fighting with Kit Carson (1933)
6. Girls Gone Wild (1929)
7. The Hatchet Man (1932)
8. The Hurricane Express (1932)
9. Kismet (1930)
10. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
11. Madame Butterfly (1932)
12. Mata Hari (1931)
13. Millie (1931)
14. The Painted Desert (1931)
15. Platinum Blonde (1931)
16. Treasure Island (1934)
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