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Have you seen All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?

Yes

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onMar 30, 2024

#movies #polls #all quiet on the western front #30s movies #old hollywood #lewis milestone #louis wolheim #lew ayres #john wray #requested #have you seen this movie poll

The Miracle Man (1932) Norman Z. McLeod

May 24th 2025

#the miracle man #1932 #norman z. mcleod #sylvia sidney #chester morris #ned sparks #john wray #hobart bosworth #lloyd hughes #robert coogan #frank darien #virginia bruce #irving pichel #florine mckinney #boris karloff #pre-code

Doctor X (1932)

"If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods."

"Necessity has no ethics, sir."

#doctor x #1932 #american cinema #pre code film #horror film #michael curtiz #robert tasker #earl baldwin #howard warren comstock #allen c. miller #lionel atwill #fay wray #lee tracy #preston foster #john wray #harry beresford #arthur edmund carewe #leila bennett #robert warwick #george rosener #willard robertson #solid good time pre code horror (and another off the Rocky Horror list; actually this could be the last i had to see?) (also contrary to #the lyrics of Science Fiction/Double Feature‚ at no point does the titular Dr build 'a creature') but yeah anywa #anyway*‚ this was one of a very few films made with a pioneering two tone technicolor process that was quickly abandoned in the face of #public apathy; once considered a lost film‚ that version was found in the 80s and is now happily available in a beautiful restoration and i #gotta say it looks absolutely phenomenal‚ full of deep‚ ominous greens and purples. the plot is some hokum about a string of murders #possibly involving the good Dr (an as always impeccable Atwill‚ at the beginning of his all too brief run as a star) and his rogues gallery #of weirdy scientific associates. it's par for the course for early horror cinema‚ complete with mildly exasperating comic foil hero (but by #far not the worst example of the type) and some rather risqué dialogue that absolutely wouldn't have got past the code a few years on #could have done with more focus on the horror and less on the funny business but so it goes and at least the laboratory stuff looks amazing

Safe in Hell (dir. William A. Wellman, 1931)

#safe in hell #william a. wellman #1931 #dorothy mackaill #ralph harolde #john wray #caps #classic film #classic actress #old hollywood #classic hollywood #pre-code #pre code film #pre-code film #pre code hollywood #criminals #sweat

ARE YOU LIVING THE LIFE THAT YOUR MAKER INTENDED? Does your life lack the flavor, the crackle, the intensity you've hoped for?Daily, we find ourselves bombarded by a thousand recommendations for extending the duration of our lives - exercise three times weekly! smoke in moderation! exchange sugar for saccharine! - but the truth is that time does not gain value by accruing. Time acquires value by being "spent," and spent freely. The longest life is not always the best one; in the marjority of cases, just the opposite. If you are, in fact, living the life that your maker intended - it may be time to seek another maker.

John Wray, The Lost Time Accidents