1931 Movies

The college aerial club is at the airfield to inaugurate a new glider. Alabam gets a lot of teasing for being a "land lizard," never wanting to fly. M...

A boy dog walks down the train tracks singing "I Ain't Got Nobody," with a train coming. He looks at a photo of his girlfriend, and she razzes him. He...

The concept of machine-made knit was known as early as the 1850s, but it was only during the 1920s that the quality of the material had improved. When...

Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the tri...

A young women causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of brasilian traffickers.

Remember when Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music says "Every time God closes a door, He opens a window?" Well, this is basically the same philosophy...

This silent film opens with shots of a hand distributing charity from a silver plate to a waiting crowd and tells of the good king of Magadh's fight w...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit works in a laundry shop in Chinatown in this one. It's a late synchronized sound cartoon: no talking or singing, but lots of m...

Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible. There, he discovers the belle, named Pearl, has a husband. Never mind such an insign...

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he...

Grock must return to the scene once more. Half-movie, half-documentary, this film memorably records Grock's showmanship.

Al Shean performs a solo version of the classic vaudeville song "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean".

An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.

An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acqu...

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

The First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to...

A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one needs a permit to commit suicide, so off the man...

Due to a revolution fueled by Fedor Karew, the queen of Gregoria abdicates and travels incognito to Paris with her cousin Vicky. She becomes a cabaret...

Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1932) is a classic English pastoral, with impressionistic views of the English countryside as it expounds the v...