List of the best David Landau movies: When the West Was Young(1932), Polly of the Circus(1932), As the Earth Turns(1934), Street Scene(1931), Horse Feathers(1932), She Done Him Wrong(1933), One Man's Journey(1933), The Nuisance(1933), Gabriel Over the White House(1933), It's Tough to Be Famous(1932), The Man With Two Faces(1934) ... ...
Western
1932
63 Minutes
Judson Holderness
Randolph Scott Sally Blane J. Farrell MacDonald David Landau Gordon Westcott Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Vince Barnett Susan Fleming Charles Stevens Fred Burns
surveyor rancher saloon owner ward son henchman gripping raw desert ranch saloon gambling house cabin american west land wars attempted murder horse thieves gambling abduction blackmail
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
Drama
USA
1932
69 Minutes
Beef
Marion Davies Clark Gable C. Aubrey Smith Raymond Hatton David Landau Maude Eburne
trapeze artist minister doctor bishop heckler uncle melodramatic witty uplifting circus church small town vermont house unlikely romance traveling performers religion marriage prejudice censorship
After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
Drama
USA
1934
73 Minutes
Mark
Jean Muir Donald Woods Edith Lowry William Janney David Landau Dorothy Peterson Dorothy Appleby Arthur Hohl
polish man immigrant farmer father young man sweetheart melodramatic passionate touching maine farmhouse rural community party barn family poverty farming romance immigrants city vs. country
Drama following the lives of an immigrant farm family in Maine.
Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Mr. Frank Maurrant
Sylvia Sidney William Collier Beulah Bondi Estelle Taylor Max Montor David Landau Matt McHugh Russell Hopton Greta Grandstedt Tom H. Manning Adele Watson
mother father daughter neighbor student bleak gritty new york city brownstone stoop poverty adultery aspirations gossip fall revenge transformation 1930s
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Comedy
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Jennings
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Thelma Todd David Landau Robert Greig Nat Pendleton
professor college president college student football player bootlegger marx brothers hilarious madcap college football field speakeasy college athletics education father/son relationship rivalry 1930s
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.
Comedy
USA
1933
66 Minutes
Dan Flynn
Mae West Cary Grant Owen Moore Gilbert Roland Noah Beery David Landau Rafaela Ottiano Dewey Robinson Rochelle Hudson Tammany Young Fuzzy Knight
singer convict femme fatale agent bar owner ex-boyfriend hedonistic confident cheeky bar prison mission crime love triangle seduction prostitution alcohol jealousy wretched excess temptation
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Drama
1933
72 Minutes
McGinnis
Lionel Barrymore May Robson Dorothy Jordan Joel McCrea Frances Dee David Landau James Bush Buster Phelps Oscar Apfel June Filmer Samuel S. Hinds
doctor widower son foster father husband daughter melodramatic moving new england small town rural community banquet hall medical profession car accident small-town life father/daughter relationship troubled marriage death of mother growing up sacrifice
A selfless doctor (Lionel Barrymore) dedicates his life to his patients and watches his son (Joel McCrea) follow in his footsteps.
Comedy
USA
1933
83 Minutes
Kelley
Lee Tracy Madge Evans Frank Morgan Charles Butterworth John Miljan Virginia Cherrill David Landau Greta Meyer Herman Bing Samuel S. Hinds Syd Saylor
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
John Bronson
Walter Huston Arthur Byron Karen Morley Franchot Tone Dickie Moore C. Henry Gordon David Landau Samuel S. Hinds William Pawley Jean Parker Claire DuBrey
president chief of staff secret police secretary of state lover gangster creative dark incredible white house washington, d.c. politics dictatorship crime visions divine intervention great depression transformation quest rise
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Drama
1932
79 Minutes
Chief Petty Officer Steve Stevens
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Mary Brian Walter Catlett Oscar Apfel Emma Dunn J. Carrol Naish David Landau Claire MacDowell Louise Beavers Ivan Linow Harold Minjir
naval officer personal assistant wife sailor reporter agent witty emotional amusing submarine parade new york city banquet hall party hero worship celebrity privacy media circus marital problems heroism
A Navy war hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) marries his girlfriend (Mary Brian) and tries to avoid publicity.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Sergeant William Curtis
Edward G. Robinson Mary Astor Louis Calhern Ricardo Cortez Mae Clarke John Eldredge Arthur Byron Henry O'Neill David Landau Emily Fitzroy Margaret Dale
A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.