1931 Movies

Robert L. Ripley presents various oddities to members of the Believe-It-or-Not Club.

In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close collaboration with the compo...

A series of blackout gags organized around a lumber camp.

Commissioned by Philips, Europa Radio celebrates the company’s experimental PCJJ shortwave radio station in Eindhoven that went on air in 1927 and bro...

A smart young manicurist works in a hotel where she earns big money by tricking businessmen by persuading them to do certain deals where she has a com...

Devon fisherman loves girl but marries injured sister.

A demobilized Red Army soldier from Gogoturi encourages his fellow villagers to join the neighboring agricultural commune. Village representatives cla...

Alternate-language version of Le roi des aulnes (1931)

The adventures of a Yemenite immigrant in Tel Aviv.

An expanded, Spanish-language version of the two-reel comedy Thundering Tenors (1931).

'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)

During harsh winter, two sweethearts dream about moving to the city to look for an easier job, and get away from a poor rural life.

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang preparing...

Ripley shows an aged Japanese statesman, a strange fish with legs, the 'Rubaiyat' in a finger ring, how a house of cards is torn up, and a giant typew...

Animated short about a kid on monkey island.

A woman, who already has a lover, is forced to marry someone else. Tragedy then piles up when the husband has an affair, their baby dies and her forme...

This entry in the series criss-crosses America to find various curiosities. Among them are a church in Nebraska made of bales of hay; a duck with four...