Milestone 1931
Film Releases During the Year
The films below were released in 1931, the year that the Christie organ was installed at the Neath Empire Cinema.
Notable Films released in 1931
- The 3 Penny Opera (Die 3 groschen-oper), starring Lotte Lenya
- À nous la liberté (Freedom for Us), directed by René Clair
- Alam Ara (The Light of the World), directed by Ardeshir Irani - the first Indian talkie
- Alice in Wonderland, the first sound version
- Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo
- Berlin-Alexanderplatz film of the novel by Alfred Döblin
- Blonde Crazy
- The Champ, starring Wallace Beery
- La Chienne (The Bitch), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Michel Simon
- Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
- City Lights, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
- City Streets, starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney
- The Criminal Code
- Dracula, directed by Tod Browning, starring Béla Lugosi and Dwight Frye
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
- Emil und die Detektive, starring Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack and Fritz Rasp
- Five Star Final
- Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive and Mae Clarke
- A Free Soul, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable
- The Front Page
- Girls About Town, starring Kay Francis and Joel McCrea
- Goldie, starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy
- I Take This Woman, starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
- Indiscreet, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon
- Industrial Britain, documentary filmed by Robert J. Flaherty
- Iron Man, starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow
- The Last Flight, starring Richard Barthelmess
- Kameradschaft (Comradeship), directed by G.W. Pabst
- Laugh and Get Rich, starring Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, and Dorothy Lee
- Little Caesar, starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- M, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre and Otto Wernicke
- Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Carl Froelich, starring Hertha Thiele
- The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
- Marius, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Raimu and Pierre Fresnay
- Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore
- Le million
- The Millionaire, starring George Arliss
- Monkey Business, starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
- Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ben Lyon
- Palmy Days, starring Eddie Cantor
- Pardon Us
- Platinum Blonde, starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
- Ten Cents a Dance, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez
- The Public Enemy, starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow
- Sally in Our Alley
- The Secret Six, starring Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet, starring Helen Hayes
- Smart Money, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney
- Smart Woman, starring Mary Astor and Edward Everett Horton
- The Smiling Lieutenant, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins
- The Stolen Jools, starring Gary Cooper, Laurel and Hardy, and Norma Shearer
- Street Scene, directed by King Vidor, starring Sylvia Sidney
- Svengali, starring John Barrymore
- Tabu, directed by F.W. Murnau
- This Modern Age, starring Joan Crawford
- Tokyo Chorus (Tokyo no korasu), directed by Yasujiro Ozu
- Tonight or Never, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Gloria Swanson and Melvyn Douglas
- Waterloo Bridge, directed by James Whale
