List of Universal Pictures films (1930–1939)
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- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsJoseph SchildkrautBarbara KentEdward G. RobinsonJust after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsKen MaynardGladys McConnellOtis HarlanA cowboy joins a Wild West show, where he has to ride a horse called "Mankiller."
- DirectorRenaud HoffmanStarsJean HersholtKathryn CrawfordLeRoy MasonYoung Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsHoot GibsonLouise LorraineFrancis FordBoy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsGlenn TryonHelen WrightOtis HarlanThree sailors go searching for a girl who swindled one of them out of half his pay.
- 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.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsMary NolanJohnny Mack BrownRobert EllisCoast Guardsman has affair with lighthouse keeper's wife.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsGeorge SidneyCharles MurrayVera GordonThe Cohens and the Kellys travel to Scotland to buy plaid in the hopes that a prince will start a new fashion trend.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsKen MaynardNora LaneJim FarleyOutlaws attempt to drive Colonel Lee (Charles Clary) off his ranch to prevent him from entering horses in the cross-country races. Martin Brierson (James Farley), the outlaw leader, tries to buy Lee's ranch but he refuses to sell. Farley's brother Pete (Paul Hurst) sets fire to Lee's barn, injuring his horses. Ranch foreman "Lucky" Larkin Ken Maynard) suspects Brierson as the man behind Lee's trouble and he decides to ride Lee's pet colt Tarzan (Tarzan) in the big race. Brierson makes an unsuccessful attempt to have Tarzan disqualified, but Larkin rides Tarzan to victory. He than captures Pete and forces a confession out of him and both Brierson brothers are arrested. Larkin then marries Emmy Lou Parkinson (Nora Lane), a homesteader's daughter.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsHoot GibsonMargaret QuimbyWilliam McCallEd King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning empty handed, and before the other hands arrive, Ed is surprised to find Ming Toy return with the men.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonPál FejösStarsLaura La PlanteJohn BolesSam De GrasseA captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
- 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.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsKen MaynardTarzanDorothy DwanAfter being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. Dave becomes Marshal but when Bowie, the man that shot Dawson appears, he exposes Dave as an imposter. Dave is then in trouble when Edwards incites the mob to lynch him.
- DirectorJohn Murray AndersonWalter LantzStarsPaul WhitemanJohn BolesLaura La PlanteAmerican Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsHoot GibsonFrank ClarkSally EilersCowboy fights to keep his ranch after oil is discovered on it.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsKen MaynardOtis HarlanKathryn CrawfordA man returns to a small town in Kentucky to find his father's killers.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsJohn WrayBetty CompsonJohn HarronA reporter is assigned to do a story on a notorious racketeer.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsReginald DennyMerna KennedyOtis HarlanA couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsLane ChandlerLouise LorraineAl FergusonA railroad needs to cross the land belonging to a young woman. Her crooked guardian tries to cheat her so he can get the right-of-way.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsHoot GibsonSally EilersRobert HomansOut to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's sheep ranch. The sheep men are greatly outnumbered but Tim has some tricks planned that will even the odds.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsMary NolanWilliam JanneyRalf HaroldeA carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsKen MaynardDoris HillFrancis FordAfter El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the wedding of Anita and his son Don Jose. But Conchita is at the wedding and recognizes him putting his life in danger.
- DirectorErnst LaemmleStarsPauline StarkeBen LyonHallam CooleyA playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsReed HowesLotus ThompsonSheldon LewisTerry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Anita PageSally BlaneOn the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsKen MaynardDoris HillJoseph W. GirardJim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch owned by Martin Stavnow is in love with "Ronnie", the owner's daughter. Jim is unaware that Harvey, a young cowhand that Jim protects like a brother,also loves the girl, and the shy Jim asks Harvey to speak for him. The heart-broken Harvey joins the rustling gang led by "Red' Slade, who are plotting a raid on the Wind River's herd. Harvey is killed while Jim is trying to rescue him from the gang. The rustling attempt is stopped and Slade takes refuge in a wagon in which "Ronnie" is hiding. Jim and his horse Tarzan rescue her just before the wagon plunges over a cliff with Slade riding to his doom. Tarzan (the horse) is even smarter than usual in this one; he knows when and how to duck bullets.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsLupe VelezPaul CavanaghWilliam 'Stage' BoydBurr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsHoot GibsonHelen WrightRobert HomansBob Merril, looking for the killer of Buddy's father, has found the secret entrance to Pecos' hideout. There he captures Indian Joe who confesses that Marsdan was the killer, But while Bob is off riding in the rodeo his witness escapes.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsMary NolanEdward G. RobinsonOwen MooreFingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsConrad NagelRose HobartGenevieve TobinA wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsTim McCoyAllene RayEdmund CobbJack Manning (Tim McCoy) arrives in a midwestern town from Gold Creek in Califonia. He brings a message from Goerge Woods (Francis Ford) to his brother Tom Woods (Francis Ford), in a dual role, and niece Mary (Allene Ray, informing them he has struck gold and asking them to join him in California via a wagon train. Jack and Mary fall in love to the great displeasure of Rance Carter (Wilbur McGaugh) who has a yen for Mary himself. Jack and Mary not only have to be wary of Carter's crooked ways and machinations, but also of Indian uprisings, caused by Carter.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsLupe VelezLew AyresEdward G. RobinsonMing Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsHoot GibsonKathryn CrawfordDuke R. LeeA cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her.
- DirectorRupert JulianJohn WillardStarsHelen TwelvetreesRaymond HackettNeil HamiltonDisappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsSlim SummervilleHarry LangdonBessie LoveTwo men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsConrad NagelGenevieve TobinMonroe OwsleyA wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairJohn M. StahlStarsBetty CompsonIan KeithMary DuncanA ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
- DirectorVin MooreStarsGeorge SidneyCharles MurrayVera GordonCohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsJohn BolesLupe VelezNance O'NeilCountry girl Katusha is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov who, years later, finds himself on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime to which he now realizes that his actions drove her. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
- DirectorTod BrowningKarl FreundStarsBela LugosiHelen ChandlerDavid MannersTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsKenneth HarlanEdna MurphyGayne WhitmanThe Secret Service sets out to break up a smuggling ring.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsTim McCoyMarion ShockleyBobby NelsonFireman Bob Darrow (Tim McCoy)invents an original chemical fire extinguisher, and his rival, Dan Mitchell (Gayne Whitman), for June Madison(Marion Shockley), also has his eyes on Bob's invention.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsConrad NagelSidney FoxBette DavisMarianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.
- DirectorVin MooreStarsElliott NugentBetty CompsonJean ArthurWhen a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsLew AyresRobert ArmstrongJean HarlowPrizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsMay RobsonJames HallLawrence GrayAn unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsJohn BolesGenevieve TobinLois WilsonBart is a clerk for a publishing company. He has written a novel. He and his wife Peggy have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred manages the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of Bart's beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy.
- DirectorMonta BellEdward L. CahnStarsLew AyresGenevieve TobinPurnell PrattYoung reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
- DirectorVin MooreStarsRobert ArmstrongJean ArthurJason Robards Sr.A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
- DirectorVin MooreStarsJoan BennettLew AyresSlim SummervilleComedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnGeorge MelfordStarsLeo CarrilloNoah BeeryMary BrianThe police use a gangster's son to get to him.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsRose HobartCharles BickfordGeorges RenaventWoman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsKenneth HarlanLucile BrowneWalter MillerThe daughter of a man who has discovered radium on an African island is befriended by two people whose real goal is to keep the discovery to themselves.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsMae ClarkeDouglass MontgomeryDoris LloydA prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsRegis ToomeySue CarolDorothy RevierCub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsLew AyresWilliam BakewellJ. Farrell MacDonaldStory of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
- DirectorCyril GardnerStarsRicardo CortezMae ClarkeNorman FosterIn order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsFrancis X. Bushman Jr.Alberta VaughnTom LondonThe manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris KarloffDr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsTom TylerLucile BrowneWilliam DesmondA western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.
- DirectorEdwin H. KnopfStarsSidney FoxFrances DeeAlan MowbrayA mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
- DirectorEdward LaemmleStarsLeo CarrilloJohnny Mack BrownDorothy BurgessA Texas Ranger who loves a dance hall girl must bring her in when she is charged with murder.
- DirectorRussell MackBert GlennonStarsLew AyresAnita LouiseHarry BeresfordA young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonDouglass MontgomeryHelen ChandlerIn a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsPaul LukasSidney FoxLewis StoneA womanizing singer falls for an old-fashioned Southern belle. The problem is, she already has a fiance.
- DirectorDuke WorneStarsDorothy RevierVirginia Brown FaireCharles MortonBattles between bootleggers and hijackers.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsSlim SummervilleZasu PittsCora Sue CollinsA wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeRay TaylorStarsJack LloydWallace GeoffreyMuriel AngelusA detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsBela LugosiSidney FoxLeon AmesA mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsWalter HustonHarry CareyRaymond HattonA lawman sets out to tame Tombstone, Arizona.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsLew AyresMae ClarkeUna MerkelA maid's dreams come true - except they are not quite what she expected.
- DirectorPhil WhitmanStarsFay WrayLeon AmesMontagu LoveA woman is forced to stowaway on a freighter in order to avoid going to jail as a mistaken street walker.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsNorman FosterJune ClydeZasu Pitts
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsGeorge SidneyCharles MurrayJune ClydeThe Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsJames FlavinLucile BrowneWheeler OakmanA pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsCharles BickfordRose HobartPat O'BrienA man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
- DirectorVin MooreStarsSlim SummervilleLouise FazendaFrank AlbertsonA young man is mistaken for his boss.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsTom MixClaudia DellZasu PittsBrant frames Destry and has men testify against him. Found guilty he vows to return. Back from prison he goes after the man that framed him. When the Sheriff is shot before he can talk, Destry chases down the killer and learning Brant is the man, heads out to get him.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsTom MixLois WilsonFred KohlerBill Joyce(Willard Roberston) has struck gold in the desert, and Tom Rigby(Tom Mix)rides into Red Dog to convince his deserting cowhands not to go wildly prospecting for gold.Joyce is celebrating in the saloon as Tom discovers his little girl Betty(Edith Fellows), completly forgotten, waiting outside for her father. Tom send Joyce out to his daughter, while "Doc" Larribe(Forrest Stanley), Red Dog's shady medico,and Lew Grant(Fred Kohler) contemplate ways to take Joyce's fortune away from him. Joyce is later shot in the back, and Tom sends for Larribe.Joyce gives Larribe the location map of his mine and begs him to summon his sister Helen(Lois Wilson) from back east and turn it over to her for Betty.Larribe agrees and winks knowingly to Grant as Joyce dies. Tom steps up and takes the map from Larribe, tears it into three pieces and gives one to each of the men and keeps the third for himself. Tom tends to Betty until her aunt arrives, but when he innocently takes her into the saloon to buy her a bottle of soda water, Helen is enraged and takes the third portion of the map from Tom. But Tom demands that Larribe and Grant go to the desert with him and locate the mine first for Helen and Betty.Helen, still mad at Tom and not knowing he is interested only in securing the mine for she and Betty, insists on going along.They make two-thirds of the map journey and Tom, knowing the mine location from his piece of the map, burns it to keep it out of the hands of Laribee and Grant. A fight ensues during which the horses drawing the buckboard---loaded with all of the water and supplies---run away, leaving Tom, Helen,Larribee and Grant stranded in the desert.The situation is now dry, gritty and dire.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsLew AyresMae ClarkeBoris KarloffStory of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRobert ArmstrongRussell HoptonLila LeeA policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
- DirectorCyril GardnerKarl HartlLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerTala BirellAlbert ContiDuring World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsNoah Beery Jr.Julie BishopOnslow StevensEfforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsTom BrownMaureen O'SullivanJames GleasonA crooked jockey tries to reform.
- DirectorEdward LaemmleStarsTom MixLucille PowersWillard RobertsonThe Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the outlaw gang they are after. Robbing the stage ahead of the gang gets him in and he learns Keefe is the boss. When it's time for the big bank robbery Keefe puts Tom in charge but secretly tells a henchman to kill him during the holdup.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTom BrownSlim SummervilleRichard CromwellBoy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsTom MixMickey RooneyJames KirkwoodThe king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLew AyresMaureen O'SullivanLouis CalhernA gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsTom TylerNoah Beery Jr.Cecilia ParkerIn Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after ivory and by a tribe of hostile natives.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsTom MixTony the HorseMargaret LindsayLearning that Molly O'Rourke owns the entire town of Stillwell but the back taxes have not been paid, Ben Jones takes over. When Molly arrives and learns of the tax situation, Tom rides off to pay them. But Jones is on to Tom and sends his entire gang after him.
- DirectorRussell MackGeorge StevensStarsRichard ArlenAndy DevineGloria StuartThe story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsJack OakieSidney FoxAline MacMahonStory of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffMelvyn DouglasCharles LaughtonSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsTom MixJudith BarrieRaymond HattonGriffen and his two men have been caught after robbing a bank but the money has not been recovered. So the Chief sends his friend Tom to prison to become their friend and hopes he can learn where the loot is hidden.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsPat O'BrienRalph BellamyGloria StuartA group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsEric LindenSidney FoxTully MarshallCorrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsFrank AlbertsonErnie NeversCecilia ParkerA lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
- DirectorKarl FreundStarsBoris KarloffZita JohannDavid MannersA resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsTom MixWilliam FarnumRuth HallA ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter. After he and the girl's parents have a quarrel, he and the girl flee across the border into Mexico.