Spirit Week: Discarnation

SUPERNATURAL

1933

Directed by Victor Halperin

Written by Garnett Weston, Brian Marlow, and Harvey Thew

Spoilers: moderate

The Encyclopedia Brown: Those magnificent men in their flying machines

NIGHT FLIGHT

1933

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, John Monk Saunders, and Wells Root (based on the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Spoilers: moderate

The Encyclopedia Brown: How about a little Service?

LOOKING FORWARD

1933

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Bess Meredyth and H.M. Harwood (based on the play Service by Dodie Smith)

Spoilers: moderate

Busby Berkeley: Talking pictures? It's just a fad

FOOTLIGHT PARADE

1933

Directed by Lloyd Bacon

Written by Manuel Seff, James Seymour, Robert Lord, and Peter Milne

Spoiler alert: moderate

Busby Berkeley: Old Man Depression, you are through, you done us wrong

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

1933

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Written by Erwin S. Gelsey, James Seymour, Ben Markson, and David Boehm

Spoiler alert: moderate

Busby Berkeley: After three weeks, to me a leg is just something to stand on

42ND STREET

1933

Directed by Lloyd Bacon

Written by Rian James and James Seymour (based on the book by Brandon Ropes)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Chinese finger cuffs

DESIGN FOR LIVING

Daring, unconventional, and full of light and life, Design For Living might just be my favorite romantic comedy.

1933
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Ben Hecht ("based" on the play by Noel Coward)
With Miriam Hopkins (Gilda Farrel), Gary Cooper (George Curtis), Fredric March (Tom Chambers), and Edward Everett Horton (Max Plunkett)

Spoiler alert: severe