OBPC #11: You Can’t Take It with You, 1938
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) You Can’t Take It with You (1938): Dir. Frank Capra. Written by: Robert Riskin. Based upon the play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. […]
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OBPC #10: The Life of Emile Zola, 1937
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) The Life of Emile Zola (1937): Dir. William Dieterle. Written by: Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, and Geza Herczeg, from a story by Herald and Herczeg. Based upon the […]
OBPC #9: The Great Ziegfeld, 1936
Rating: 1½ stars (out of 4) The Great Ziegfeld (1936): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard. Written by: William Anthony McGuire. Starring: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Frank Morgan, and Fannie Brice. Unrated. Running time: 176 […]
OBPC #8: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935): Dir. Frank Lloyd. Written by: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, and Carey Wilson. Based upon the novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and […]
OBPC #7: It Happened One Night, 1934
Rating: 3½ stars (out of 4) It Happened One Night (1934): Dir. Frank Capra. Written by: Robert Riskin. Based upon the short story “Night Bus” by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter […]
OBPC #6: Cavalcade, 1933
Rating: 1½ stars (out of 4) Cavalcade (1933): Dir. Frank Lloyd. Written by: Reginald Berkeley, with continuity by Sonya Levien. Based upon the play of the same name by Noël Coward. Starring: Diana Wynard, Clive […]
OBPC #5: Grand Hotel, 1932
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) Grand Hotel (1932): Dir. Edmund Goulding. Written by: William A. Drake and Béla Balázs. Based upon the play of the same name by William A. Drake, adapted from the […]
OBPC #4: Cimarron, 1931
Rating: 2 stars (out of 4) Cimarron (1931): Dir. Wesley Ruggles. Written by: Howard Estabrook, with additional contributions by Louis Sarecky. Based upon the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. Starring: Richard Dix, […]
OBPC #3: All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): Dir. Lewis Milestone. Written by: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, and Del Andrews. Based upon the novel of the same name by Erich […]
OBPC #2: The Broadway Melody, 1929
Rating: 1½ stars (out of 4) The Broadway Melody (1929): Dir. Harry Beaumont. Written by: Norman Houston and James Gleason, from a story by Edmund Goulding. Lyrics by Arthur Freed. Music by Nacio Herb Brown. Continuity […]