1933

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)

• 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers
• Adorable, directed by William Dieterle, starring Janet Gaynor
• After Tonight, starring Constance Bennett
• Alice in Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry and virtually every Paramount star at the time
• Ann Vickers – starring Walter Huston and Irene Dunne
• Baby Face – directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent
• Beauty for Sale, starring Madge Evans and Alice Brady
• Bed of Roses, starring Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea
• A Bedtime Story, starring Maurice Chevalier
• Berkeley Square, starring Leslie Howard
• Bitter Sweet, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen – directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck, and featuring Nils Asther and Walter Connolly
• Blood Money, starring George Bancroft
• Bombshell, starring Jean Harlow
• The Bowery, starring Wallace Beery and George Raft
• Bureau of Missing Persons, starring Bette Davis and Pat O’Brien
• By Candlelight, directed by James Whale
• Cash, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Robert Donat – (GB)
• Cavalcade, starring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor and Herbert Mundin
• Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore and Bebe Daniels
• Convention City, starring Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell and Mary Astor
• Dancing Lady – starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• Daybreak (Tiānmíng) – (China)
• Deluge, starring Sidney Blackmer
• The Deserter – (U.S.S.R.)
• Design for Living – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins
• The Devil’s Brother, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Dick Turpin – directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Victor McLaglen (GB)
• Dinner at Eight – directed by George Cukor and featuring an all-star cast
• Doctor Bull, starring Will Rogers
• Don Quixote, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Feodor Chaliapin – (France/GB)
• Dora’s Dunking Doughnuts, starring Shirley Temple
• Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna), starring Kinuyo Tanaka, directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• Duck Soup – directed by Leo McCarey, starring the Marx Brothers
• The Eagle and the Hawk – starring Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard
• Ecstasy, starring Hedy Lamarr – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson
• Employees’ Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young
• Ever in My Heart – directed by Archie Mayo, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, and Ralph Bellamy
• Ex-Lady, starring Bette Davis
• Face in the Sky – directed by Harry Lachman, starring Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixon
• Fast Workers, starring John Gilbert and Mae Clarke
• The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii), directed by Richard Oswald – (Germany)
• Flying Down to Rio – starring Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond. Also starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first of 10 films together
• Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
• Friday the Thirteenth, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews – (GB)
• Gabriel Over the White House – directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Walter Huston, Produced by William Randolph Hearst
• Ganga Bruta, directed by Humberto Mauro, starring Durval Bellini and Déa Selva (Brazil)
• The Ghoul, starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger – (GB)
• The Ghost Camera, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Ida Lupino, John Mills – (GB)
• Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Patsy Kelly, Fifi D’Orsay, and Sterling Holloway
• Gold Diggers of 1933 – directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William
• The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn and John Gielgud – (GB)
• Goodbye Again, starring Joan Blondell and Warren William
• Hallelujah, I’m a Bum, starring Al Jolson
• Hard to Handle, starring James Cagney
• Heroes for Sale, starring Loretta Young and Richard Barthelmess
• His Doubles Life – directed by Arthur Hopkins, starring Roland Young, Lillian Gish
• Hold Your Man – starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
• The House on 56th Street, starring Kay Francis
• The House of Dora Green, directed by Henrik Galeen, starring Mady Christians – (Germany)
• The Hymn of Leuthen, directed by Carl Froelich – (Germany)
• I’m No Angel – starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West also wrote the story and screenplay.
• In the Wake of the Bounty – starring Errol Flynn – (Australia)
• International House – starring W.C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bela Lugosi
• The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role with Gloria Stuart
• It’s Great to Be Alive, directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Raul Roulien and Gloria Stuart
• Każdemu wolno kochać (Anybody Can Love), by Mieczysław Krawicz – (Poland)
• King Kong – starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
• King of the Jungle, starring Buster Crabbe
• Ladies They Talk About – directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot
• Lady for a Day – directed by Frank Capra, starring Warren William and May Robson
• Lady Killer, starring James Cagney
• Liebelei, directed by Max Ophüls – (Germany)
• Life Is a Dog (Život je pes), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
• Little Toys (Xiáo wǎnyì), directed by Sun Yu – (China)
• Little Women – directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett
• Looking Forward, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Lionel Barrymore
• Lot in Sodom, starring Friedrich Haak
• I Loved a Woman (1933) – starring Edward G, Robinson and Kay Francis
• Loyalties – starring Basil Rathbone – (GB)
• The Mad Game – directed by Irving Cummings, starring Spencer Tracy
• Man’s Castle – directed by Frank Borzage, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young
• The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney
• Men Must Fight, starring Diana Wynyard
• Midnight Club, starring George Raft and Clive Brook
• Midnight Mary, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Loretta Young
• The Midnight Patrol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Money for Speed, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring John Loder and Ida Lupino – (GB)
• The Monkey’s Paw, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Morning Glory – starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Mr. Skitch, starring Will Rogers
• Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
• Night of Terror – starring Bela Lugosi
• Okraina (The Outskirts) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Oliver Twist, starring Dickie Moore
• One Sunday Afternoon – starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray
• Only Yesterday, starring Margaret Sullavan
• Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, and Anita Louise
• Parachute Jumper, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, and Frank McHugh
• Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• Peg o’ My Heart, starring Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, and J. Farrell MacDonald
• Penthouse, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
• Perfect Understanding, starring Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier – (GB)
• Pick-Up, starring Sylvia Sydney and George Raft
• Picture Snatcher, starring James Cagney
• Pilgrimage – directed by John Ford
• The Power and the Glory – directed by William K. Brown, starring Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore
• The Private Life of Henry VIII, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
• The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
• Professional Sweetheart – starring Ginger Rogers
• Queen Christina, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
• Refugees – (Germany)
• Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart
• S.O.S Iceberg (S.O.S. Eisberg), starring Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)
• Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
• Secrets, starring Mary Pickford in her last film
• Shanghai Madness – directed by John G. Blystone, starring Spencer Tracy, Fay Wray
• She Done Him Wrong – starring Mae West and Cary Grant in his first notable film role
• She Had to Say Yes – directed by Bubsy Berkeley and George Amy, starring Loretta Young and Lyle Talbot
• The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
• Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• A Southern Maid, starring Bebe Daniels and Clifford Mollison – (GB)
• Spring Silkworms (Chung Can) – (China)
• State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres
• Storm at Daybreak – starring Walter Huston and Kay Francis
• The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue
• The Stranger’s Return, starring Miriam Hopkins and Lionel Barrymore
• A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen
• Supernatural – starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Otto Wernicke – (Germany)
• This Day and Age – Cecil B. Demille‘s now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy.
• This Is America the first full-length documentary feature film ever made
• This Week of Grace’ directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Gracie Fields – (Britain)
• Three-Cornered Moon – starring Claudette Colbert and Richard Arlen
• Three Little Pigs, an animated short
• Tillie and Gus, starring Alison Skipworth and W.C. Fields
• Today We Live – starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper
• Tonight Is Ours – starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
• Topaze, starring John Barrymore and Myrna Loy
• Torch Singer – starring Claudette Colbert
• Tugboat Annie, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
• Turn Back the Clock, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
• The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
• Viktor und Viktoria – (Germany)
• Voltaire, starring George Arliss
• When Ladies Meet, starring Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy
• The Wandering Jew, starring Conrad Veidt
• What! No Beer? – starring Buster Keaton
• The Whispering Shadow – starring Bela Lugosi
• Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips
• The Working Man, starring George Arliss and Bette Davis
• The World Changes – starring Mary Astor, Paul Muni
• You Made Me Love You starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd – (GB)
• Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite), directed by Jean Vigo – (France)