•A24: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls593030349/ •Briarcliff Entertainment: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls593605880/ •Columbia Pictures: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls597125747/ •First National Pictures: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls566680323/ •Film Booking Offices of America (FBO): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595446126/ •Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls597013399/ •Neon: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls593793950/ •RKO Radio Pictures: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595631992/ •Twentieth-Century Studios: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls597551124/ •United Artists: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595449740/ •Universal Pictures: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls593605888/ •Warner Bros.: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595928212/

Irene Dunne and Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)

My attempt at a comprehensive list of feature-length and short sound films produced in America between 1930 and July 1934 (plus others included on pre-code.com, and Wikipedia's and Letterboxd's Pre-Code film lists).

Top Directors and All of their Movies Part II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Paramount_Pictures_films_(1930%E2%80%931939)

List of Paramount Pictures films (1930–1939)

Randolph Scott's presence in Westerns was as steady as a mountain and just as tough. He even looked like a statue carved from granite or aged wood. 

Moral and fair yet dynamic and unflinching - his on screen persona was one of the safest pairs of hands in the genre. 

Some say John Wayne, others - Clint Eastwood, but for me - Randolph Scott was the best and most watchable Western movie star of them all.

List of best films from 1928 to 1939 of USA. Excluding films with mixed, negative or panned reception. Excluding silent films between 1928 to 1929 including those believed to be lost. 

Helene Costello and Cullen Landis in Lights of New York (1928)

Gary Cooper and Mary Brian in The Virginian (1929)

Can there even be a thing like 'nearly good B-pictures'? At first I wasn't so sure either. But after years of watching B-movies, more often than not I stumbled across a B-picture which I wouldn't exactly consider to be a good (or even brillant) one. On the other hand it didn't reach the absolute bottoms of z-grade moviedom that connoisseurs of this kind of pictures are used to either. It was simply a movie which, in terms of B-pictures, was competently done, had all those ingredients we love so much in this kind of movies, yes, possibly it was even done bad for all the right reasons. But nevertheless, it didn't click with me, didn't offer that special something which makes B-pictures so enjoyable. What you can expect on this list are B-pictures which are not bad per se, they are more like near misses which can still offer plenty for the B-movie fan. Especially if you are a fan of a certain subgenre, actor or whatever. So have fun browsing through the nearly, but not quite, good B-pictures of the 1930s. 

If you're up to it, don't hesitate to leave a comment.

PS: The movies are sorted by year and not necessarily by my preference. This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.

George Arliss, Alice Joyce, and H.B. Warner in The Green Goddess (1930)

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