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1930s Action Movies

Public list by WPS with 89 movies or TV shows/series

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Suicide Squad(1935)

NR
| 56min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper publicity which goes to his head. His sweetheart, Mary O'Connor, and fire-department friends begin to shun him as they think he is just a publicity hound. But a daring rescue of Mary and her younger brother, Mickey, from a blazing inferno shows him to be more than just a publicity-chaser and, now, a real hero to all.

Directed by Raymond K. Johnson

Sabotage(1939)

NR
| 1h 6min | Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....

Directed by Harold Young - With Arleen Whelan

Homicide Bureau(1939)

58min | Drama, Action, Crime

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.

Directed by Charles C. Coleman - With Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Moroni Olsen, Eddie Fetherston, Gene Morgan, ...

The Silver Streak(1934)

NR
| 1h 25min | Drama, Action
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.

Oklahoma Terror(1939)

57min | Western
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Cartwright's racket is to sell a ranch and then have Mason and his men drive the ranchers away so he can resell it. If they want their money back he gives it to them and then has them killed. Jack arrives and learns that Mason and his men are the culprits but that they have a boss. He suspects Cartwright and sets trap to expose him.

State Police(1938)

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Directed by John Rawlins

Emergency Call(1933)

1h 10min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

The Escape(1939)

NR
| 1h 3min | Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.

Forbidden Valley(1938)

1h 8min | Western

In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.

Directed by Wyndham Gittens

White Fang(1936)

NR
| 1h 10min | Adventure, Action, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

Directed by David Butler - With Michael Whalen

The Seas Beneath(1931)

NR
| 1h 30min | Action, Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.

In Spite of Danger(1935)

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer
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Human Cargo(1936)

NR
| 1h 6min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.

Alpine Antics(1936)

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Prologue: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a little like Disney's Pete). The bad guy sabotages the other contestants in various ways, takes short cuts, etc. But Beans manages to tie up the bad guy in his own trip line. A duck riding a dachshund knocks the bad guy out for a while; he and Beans trade places a few more times before Beans wins the race, just barely.

Directed by Jack King

Mystery Plane(1939)

NR
| 1h | Crime, Adventure
4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.

Directed by George Waggner

Forged Passport(1939)

1h 3min | Crime, Action, Comedy

Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.

Calling All Marines(1939)

1h 6min | Action, Drama

Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.

Directed by John H. Auer - With Don "Red" Barry

When Lightning Strikes(1934)

55min | Action, Adventure

Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.

She Loved a Fireman(1937)

NR
| 58min | Drama, Action
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

Les mutinés de l'Elseneur(1936)

1h 30min | Adventure

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.

Directed by Pierre Chenal - With Jean Murat

Speed Wings(1934)

NR
| 1h 1min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.

Directed by Otto Brower - With Tim McCoy

The Storm(1938)

1h 18min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

Sea Devils(1937)

1h 28min | Action
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.

Scarlet Pages(1930)

NR
| 1h 6min | Action, Romance / Love, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.

Pursuit(1935)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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The Girl from Mandalay(1936)

NR
| 1h 8min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.

Directed by Howard Bretherton - With Conrad Nagel

Pirates of the Skies(1939)

1h 5min | Drama

Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.

Directed by Joseph A. McDonough

Southern Carrier(1937)

1h 31min | Adventure
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.

Rose of the Rancho(1936)

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.

Directed by Marion Gering - With John Boles

Born to Be Wild(1938)

NR
| 1h 6min | Action, Drama

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.

Directed by Joseph Kane - With Ralph Byrd
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