1931 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
Cimarron
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
City Lights
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
City Streets
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Dishonored
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Quick Millions
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he makes plans to kidnap her on her wedding day.
Rango
The frame story is narrated by a white father to his son. He explains that man’s closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as “man of the forest.” He then …
Surrender
French POW Dumaine is sequestered near the castle of a prideful Prussian nobleman, Count Reinmacher, who lives for the day that his four sons will march triumphantly into Paris. Axelle, the…
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple’s love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
The Front Page
An investigative reporter sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime when an accused murderer escapes hanging.
The Guardsman
A Vienna based acting couple make magic when they perform together on stage. Unknown to the theater going public and despite being married for only six months, that magic seems no longer to…