🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, HELL'S ANGELS (1930) ✈️🔥

🎬 Howard Hughes’ massive aviation epic stunned audiences with spectacular aerial combat sequences, real stunt flying, and one of Jean Harlow’s breakout performances.

💥 Famous for its dangerous dogfights and extravagant production, the film became one of the most expensive movies of its era.

Watch the full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/hells-angels_1930

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Goodness!

Mae West in Night After Night, 1932

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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE DIVORCEE (1930) 💔

🎬 In this pivotal “equalizing” scene, Norma Shearer’s Jerry tells her unfaithful husband that she has taken a lover of her own, confronting Hollywood’s double standards head-on.

🏆 Shearer won the 3rd Academy Awards Best Actress Oscar for her fearless performance in this groundbreaking drama.

Watch the full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-divorcee_1930

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Wow. Musical / Comedy / Romance / Science Fiction. All at once.

To begin with, this seems like a transfer from a pretty good VHS tape. There are so many noise artifacts in the image I’m not sure if the dancers are fully naked or wearing outfits that are mostly tight.

The acting is similarly fuzzy. As is the story. This is set in the Far Distant Future Year of 1980! People have their marriages approved by the government, but our hero appeals the ruling. While waiting, he, his friend, and a man from 50 years ago become the first to fly to Mars.

There’s some excellent miniature and special effects work, though, some of which is almost as good as ❝Metropolis.❞

There’s a fun connection with ❝The She-Monster.❞ The ‘Scandinavian’ butler in that film is the ‘Comedic Lead’ in this film.

If you would like to see a film, this is one!

★★☆☆☆

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