Bosko’s Fox Hunt is a 1931 American animated comedy short film. It is the sixteenth film in the Looney Tunes series featuring Bosko. It was released on November 28, 1931. It was directed by Hugh Harman,and the film score was composed by Frank Marsales. The cartoon’s plot is somewhat similar to that of the later Looney Tunes cartoons Porky’s Duck… Read more →
Little Caesar is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Glenda Farrell. The film tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime until he reaches its upper echelons. The storyline was adapted from the novel of the same… Read more →
The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O’Brien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The supporting cast includes Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore,… Read more →
Cimarron is a 1931 American pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. Released by RKO, it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Howard Estabrook and based on Edna Ferber’s 1930 novel Cimarron), and Best Production Design (by Max Rée). It is the first of four Westerns to… Read more →
The Bandmaster is a 1931 short film by Walter Lantz Productions, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. As with a few films from the series, the cartoon is in the public domain. A similarly titled short, also produced by Lantz in 1947, is still under copyright however. Buy a subscription to watch this movie and hundreds more: Ready to watch? Click… Read more →
Tom and Jerry, also known as Dick and Larry in Official Films cartoons, produced by Amadee Van Beuren, was a series of short cartoons released by RKO Radio Pictures between 1931 and 1933. Each cartoon placed them in a new situation or occupation; the pair sang, danced and used musical effects and gags. The characters are not related to MGM’s… Read more →
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is an American pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1931. It was one of Keaton’s early talking pictures, released in the aftermath of his silent career. The film was released in the United Kingdom as Romeo in Pyjamas. It is the remake of a 1920 film of the same name, based… Read more →
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! is a 1931 American animated comedy film. It is the third title in the Merrie Melodies series featuring Foxy. It was released as early as August 15, 1931. It is directed by Rudolf Ising. This is one of only three Merrie Melodies cartoons to star Foxy; the other two being Lady, Play Your Mandolin! and One… Read more →
Lady, Play Your Mandolin! is a 1931 American animated musical comedy film. It is the first film in the Merrie Melodies series, and stars Foxy, a character who appeared in three 1931 shorts. It was released as early as June 13, 1931. It was directed by Rudolf Ising. As was typically the case with the early entries in the Merrie… Read more →
Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land is a 1931 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on November 28, 1931, and stars Piggy. The minimal storyline centers on the plucky Piggy’s efforts to rescue his girlfriend and a doglike Uncle Tom from perilous predicaments and villains. The short’s use of the racial epithet… Read more →
