1932 Movies

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a working piano from junk, then plays and sings the title song. Various discarded items join in with song or dance.

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town…

College co-eds struggle with the moral, societal and human aspects of romance.

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued…

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect’s daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately…

Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while…

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor…

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A…

A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.

Orville “Gabby” Denton is an alcoholic drifter with a chronic gambling problem. Despite his flaws he is beloved by his family. Gabby’s brother-in-law Beef gets Gabby work as a mechanic…

Gracie Fields’ second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the…

Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the baby’s impending…

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for…

Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. He discovers his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion, and during the…

The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .

A cowboy on the run from the law gets mixed up with a crooked horse race scheme.

A woman travels to a French penal colony in Indo China to be with her fiancée, the commander. She arrives to find that he is now an alcoholic.

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On a special train, Betty’s show troupe rehearses: Betty sings, Bimbo juggles, and Koko does a soft-shoe. The train itself also does tricks.

Betty’s campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.

Bimbo visits a south sea isle, where he meets a dusky maiden who does a hot hula and looks a lot like Betty. Also a stereotyped headhunter tribe… The Royal…

Everyone loves the wheat cakes served by short-order cook Betty, but they have a drawback. With Bimbo and Koko, no bee is involved.

Koko takes Betty to the museum, where she’s locked in overnight and forced to sing at the skeletons’ dance.

Betty’s home is for sale; so is the whole planet Earth. The Moon auctions Earth to the highest bidder, Saturn, who takes away the planet’s gravity.

In their traveling medicine show, Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell Jippo (“Flattens Feet! Makes Young Men Old!”) which has weird effects on their customers.

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Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. When he makes a killing on the horses he meets Shirley…

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A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life.

A border smuggling gang is using a dag with a fake fur blanket to deliver the loot. When the Sheriff sends Jack Marlin after them and he gets killed, his…

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family…

Heiress Carol Owen learns to fly from aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard who begins neglecting his work as their affair progresses. Things get complicated when she learns her father died penniless…

A sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news: they’re rescued by a pirate ship…