Lost Movies From 1930
US movies from 1930 (second year of the "pre-code" era of 1929-1934) which are listed as lost on IMDB. Many of these films have user ratings and reviews. The mere existence of reviews didn't cause a film to be excluded from this list. Some reviews could be from people who saw the film before it was lost. On the other hand, some reviews seem based not on actually having seen the movie, but on something the reviewer has read elsewhere, or that the reviewer does/doesn't like an actor/the director, doesn't like old movies, or whatever, and wants to chime in based on that. And frankly, some reviews I have read come across as fabrications ("I had an exclusive showing of this otherwise lost film in the home of a private collector").
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- DirectorBen F. WilsonStarsHal TaliaferroNeva GerberRobert WalkerA crazed scientist calling himself The Voice from the Sky broadcasts his voice all across the globe, and threatens to suspend all energy in the earth's atmosphere and turn day into night unless the world immediately destroys all arms and vehicles of warfare. U. S. Secret Service agent Jack Deering is sent to Arizona to investigate, where he meets the scientist's daughter Jean. The ten-episode battle then ensues between Deering, a spy for the Russian government, an agent from Scotland Yard, and a mysterious cloaked "Man from Nowhere," who pursue each other from Canada to California in the attempt to acquire the "secret of the air."
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsBernice ClaireAlexander GrayLucien LittlefieldA bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsDolores CostelloChester MorrisJack MulhallDrama of thwarted love and marriage.
- DirectorFrank O'ConnorStarsFrancis X. BushmanEthel ClaytonJoan WyndhamA retired circus clown, Herbert Rawlinson, finds love entering his life when he marries a member of the circus troupe, Ethel Clayton and the adoption of an orphaned circus girl, Joan Wyndham. Later his wife thinks he does not love her and she leaves him. He embarks on a quest to win her back.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsJames MurrayMerna KennedyEddie BordenWealthy playboy Sandy Benton falls for pretty but decidedly less wealthy neighbor Doris Lawrence. She rebuffs his attentions, but scheming golddigger Estelle has her own plans for Sandy. When Doris hears about Sandy's wild times with Estelle, she sets out to show him that she, too, can be a "modern" woman.
- DirectorRenaud HoffmanStarsJean HersholtKathryn CrawfordLeRoy MasonYoung Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
- DirectorRalph StaubStarsEddie LambertDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Joan CrawfordEddie Lambert leads the tour; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Crawford return from their honeymoon trip; Carl Laemmle, Jr. welcomes Paul Whiteman to Hollywood; Edward Everett shows off his menagerie; Eddie Quillan displays his saxophone skills; other players are glimpsed.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsHelen TwelvetreesFred ScottRichard CarleAn alcoholic minstrel has hit rock bottom while in a relationship with a no-good burlesque dancer, until he recuperates under the care of a kind maid. They get married and she joins the troupe, but the dancer tries to rope him back in.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJoseph WagstaffLola LaneSharon LynnPaul Adams, a singer, assumes the name of operatic tenor Paul Du Bonnet and sets out for a career in Hollywood. En route to the coast, he meets Marjorie Lorraine, who falls in love with him, and in Hollywood he occupies the mansion of the famous singer. By the time Du Bonnet arrives, Paul has successfully launched a film career, though he has lost Marjorie because Du Bonnet's wife is claiming him, sight unseen. All is resolved, however, when Du Bonnet discovers Paul to be his long-lost nephew.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsBillie DoveKenneth ThomsonGrant WithersThe Other Tomorrow is a lost 1930 American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The love-triangle drama, from a story by Octavus Roy Cohen, stars Billie Dove, Kenneth Thomson, and Grant Withers.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsOlive BordenLloyd HughesGeorge FawcettOlive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsSue CarolDixie LeeWalter CatlettKitty Collins and Flo Jenkins, a couple of jazz-age cuties with bobbed-hair and rolled-stockings, go in search of good-times and whoopee-making. The party they find also includes some out-of-town, butter-and-egg millionaires whose definition of whoopee is not the same as the one Kitty and Flo have. The wives of the millionaires also have a different-and-dim view on the matter.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsChester MorrisBetty CompsonAlec B. FrancisSergeant Gischa Patrotkin (Chester Morris), a simple-minded Russian soldier, escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp. He hides out for awhile with a peasant girl named Babka (Betty Compson), but finally his longing for his homeland overcomes him. Wearing the identity of a dead Russian spy he is soon recaptured by the Germans and sentenced to death. The German ruthlessness and disdain for justice is driven home when proof of his innocence of being the spy is brushed aside.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCyril ButcherAileen DespardA short sketch featuring winners of the 'Film Weekly' acting scholarship.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsDorothy MackaillSidney BlackmerJulanne JohnstonA lady novelist falls deeply in love.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJohn BolesVivienne SegalJoe E. BrownAs a wagon train treks west, two men, Lt. Singleton and a Stanton, a scout, are rivals for the attentions of the Colonels's daughter, Virginia. Stanton is held for murder after a fight with a bad guy named Davolo. He escapes jail and joins the train disguised as a minister. Virginia runs off with him and they start a saloon in San Fransisco. Guilt overcomes him and he leaves her, he rejoins the Army, afterward finding she forgives him.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsLois WilsonH.B. WarnerTheodore von EltzFifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by her husband's lawyer, Bedlow. At a dinner party given by Smith, a columnist, she announces that her husband has at last granted her freedom; but Owen McDonald, her childhood sweetheart, whom she still loves, is disappointed to learn that she is not asking for alimony or a settlement. When her young son Alan announces that his father has been murdered, he accuses his mother of trying to shield McDonald, whom he suspects of the crime. Fifi goes to Bedlow for aid, and learning that she no longer loves McDonald, he agrees to help, but he locks her in the apartment, then confesses his love for her and admits to the murder of her husband. Dr. Cummings and Alan come to her aid; returning to the drawing room, they find that Bedlow has leaped to his death. Fifi finds happiness at last with the doctor.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsJack MulhallSue CarolEl BrendelMarybelle Cobb, a plain and old-fashioned girl, is secretary to commercial illustrator Philip Homer, with whom she is secretly in love.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJoe E. BrownWinnie LightnerGeorges CarpentierA man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsJames GleasonJohnnie WalkerMarion ShillingA young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsLouise LorraineJack PerrinMonroe SalisburyOne of a group of Americans steals the Jade Box, which holds the secret of invisibility; a murderous Oriental cult wants it back and tracks them down.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsKenneth MacKennaJoan BennettRegis ToomeyYoung heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time at the country club, even interfering with tennis games. The two boys are constantly arguing, and Ann grows weary of them both, and after a knock down, drag out fight that destroys the Jordan garden, they realize she has fallen for an older man, Jack Gardner, an engineering friend of her father.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsJames MurrayKathryn CrawfordCarl StockdaleA bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student, and soon becomes the school's star athlete and most popular man on campus.
- DirectorWalter LangRoy William NeillStarsJoseph SchildkrautMyrna LoyPhilip SleemanCarlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires. He also aspires to become a world-acclaimed brilliant violinist and, to do so, he needs financial independence, such as can be gained by sleeping with pretty (or ugly) rich women, or women who have rich husbands. So he hangs out at the Argentina Cafe while Narita, whom he professes to love, pimps for him. But hanging out in one locale is not a good idea, as the husbands know where to find him. So does the fiery Narita in the event she realizes she is just being used.