1932

Film Decades: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis
• The Age of Consent, directed by Gregory La Cava
• Air Mail – directed by John Ford
• American Madness – directed by Frank Capra, starring Walter Huston
• The Animal Kingdom, starring Leslie Howard, Ann Harding and Myrna Loy
• Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter (Anton Špelec, ostrostřelec), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
• As You Desire Me, starring Greta Garbo
• L’Atlantide, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Brigitte Helm – (Germany/France)
• Attorney for the Defense, starring Edmund Lowe and Evelyn Brent
• Back Street, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles
• The Bartered Bride (Die verkaufte Braut), directed by Max Ophüls – (Germany)
• The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford
• The Big Broadcast, starring Bing Crosby
• Big City Blues, starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell
• The Big Stampede – starring John Wayne
• A Bill of Divorcement – starring John Barrymore, Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut
• Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Río, Joel McCrea and Lon Chaney Jr.
• Das blaue Licht (The Blue Light), starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)
• A Blonde Dream, starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Willi Forst – (Germany)
• Blonde Venus – directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant
• Blondie of the Follies, directed by Edmund Goulding; starring Marion Davies, Billie Dove, and Robert Montgomery
• Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Michel Simon – (France)
• Broken Lullaby, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Lionel Barrymore
• Business and Pleasure, starring Will Rogers
• The Cabin in the Cotton – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Richard Barthelmess and Bette Davis
• Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow
• Chandu the Magician – starring Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi
• Charlie Chan’s Chance, starring Warner Oland and H. B. Warner
• Cruiser Emden, directed by Louis Ralph – (Germany)
• Dance Pretty Lady, directed by Anthony Asquith (Britain)
• Dancers in the Dark, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack Oakie
• The Dark Horse, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
• The Death Kiss – starring Bela Lugosi
• The Dentist, a W. C. Fields short produced by Mack Sennett
• Destry Rides Again, starring Tom Mix
• Devil and the Deep – starring Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant
• Disorderly Conduct – starring Spencer Tracy
• Downstairs, starring John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce and Hedda Hopper
• Emma, starring Marie Dressler
• F.P.1 (F.P.1 antwortet nicht) – (Germany)
• Faithless, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery
• Fanny, directed by Marc Allégret, starring Raimu – (France)
• A Farewell to Arms – directed by Frank Borzage, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
• Fast Life, starring William Haines and Madge Evans
• Flesh – directed by John Ford, starring Wallace Beery and Karen Morley
• Flowers and Trees, a Walt Disney animated short
• Forbidden – directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, and Ralph Bellamy
• Freaks, directed by Tod Browning
• Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle – (GB)
• Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
• Horse Feathers, starring the Marx Brothers with Thelma Todd
• Hotel Splendide, directed by Michael Powell – (GB)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Paul Muni
• I Was Born, But… (Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• If I Had a Million – an anthology comedy film with an all-star cast including W. C. Fields, May Robson, George Raft, Charles Laughton and Gary Cooper
• The Impatient Maiden, starring Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke
• Island of Lost Souls – starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen and Bela Lugosi – an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• Ivan – directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)
• Jack’s the Boy directed by Walter Forde, starring Jack Hulbert – (GB)
• Jewel Robbery, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
• The Kid from Spain – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Eddie Cantor
• Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? (To Whom Does the World Belong?) – (Germany)
• The Last Mile, starring Preston Foster
• The Last of the Mohicans, starring Harry Carey
• Law and Order, starring Walter Huston and Harry Carey
• Lord Camber’s Ladies – starring Gerald du Maurier, produced by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Local Bad Man, starring Hoot Gibson
• Love Me Tonight, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (as Jeanette Mac Donald)
• The Lucky Number, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Gordon Harker – (GB)
• Me and My Girl – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett
• The Man Who Played God (aka The Silent Voice), starring George Arliss and Bette Davis
• The Match King – directed by William Keighley and Howard Bretherton, starring Warren William and Lili Damita
• Merrily We Go to Hell, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney
• The Midshipmaid, starring Jessie Matthews – (GB)
• Million Dollar Legs, starring Jack Oakie and W. C. Fields
• The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks and Robert Armstrong, involving much of the same cast and crew of the following year’s King Kong.
• The Mouthpiece, starring Warren William
• Movie Crazy, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
• Mr. Robinson Crusoe, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff
• Murders in the Rue Morgue – starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox and Leon Ames
• Night After Night, starring George Raft and Mae West in her film debut
• Night at the Crossroads (La Nuit du carrefour), directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
• No Man Of Her Own – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
• Odds 777 – (Denmark)
• The Old Dark House, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Ernest Thesiger and Raymond Massey
• One Hour with You, starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
• One Way Passage, directed by Tay Garnett, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
• Pack Up Your Troubles, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• The Painted Woman – directed by John G. Blystone, starring Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon
• The Passionate Plumber, starring Buster Keaton
• Payment Deferred, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Sullivan
• The Phantom President – starring George M. Cohan and Claudette Colbert
• Polly of the Circus – directed by Alfred Santell, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
• The Purchase Price – William Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, and Lyle Talbot
• Rain – starring Joan Crawford and Walter Huston
• Rasputin and the Empress, starring John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
• Rasputin, Demon with Women, starring Conrad Veidt and Brigitte Horney – (Germany)
• Raid in St. Pauli (Raid in St. Pauli) – (Germany)
• Red Dust – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
• The Red-Haired Alibi, starring Merna Kennedy Theodore von Eltz Grant Withers and Shirley Temple
• Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow
• Rome Express, directed by Walter Forde, starring Conrad Veidt and Esther Ralston – (GB)
• Santa – (Mexico)
• Scarface – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft and Boris Karloff
• Scarlet Dawn, directed by William Dieterle, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Nancy Carroll
• Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
• She Wanted a Millionaire – directed by John G. Blystone, starring Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel
• Sherlock Holmes, starring Clive Brook
• Shopworn – directed by Nick Grinde, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Regis Toomey
• The Sign of the Cross – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
• The Sign of Four, starring Arthur Wontner
• Silver Dollar – starring Edward G. Robinson and Bebe Daniels
• A Simple Case (Prostoy sloochay) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Sky Devils – directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Spencer Tracy
• Smilin’ Through, starring Norma Shearer
• So Big – directed by William A. Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Society Girl – directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring James Dunn, Peggy Shannon, Spencer Tracy
• Speak Easily, starring Buster Keaton
• Spring Shower (Tavaszi zápor) – (Hungary/France)
• Tarzan the Ape Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan
• Taxi!, starring James Cagney and Loretta Young
• They Just Had to Get Married, starring Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts
• Thirteen Women, starring Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez and Myrna Loy
• Three Modern Women, directed by Bu Wancang, starring Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan – (China)
• Three on a Match, starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis
• Tiger Shark, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Trouble in Paradise, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall
• Two Seconds, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Unheimliche Geschichten – (Germany)
• The Undertaker (Funebrák), directed by Karel Lamač – (Czechoslovakia)
• Union Depot, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Blondell
• Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Germany/France)
• Virtue, starring Carole Lombard and Pat O’Brien
• Washington Merry-Go-Round, starring Lee Tracy
• What Price Hollywood? – directed by George Cukor, starring Constance Bennett
• What Scoundrels Men Are! (Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!) – starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
• White Zombie – starring Bela Lugosi
• Wooden Crosses (Les croix de bois), directed by Raymond Bernard – (France)
• Young America – directed by Frank Borzage, starring Spencer Tracy