Irene Dunne and Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)

Corinne Calvet and John Carroll in Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959)

<SEE ALSO> •A24: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls593030349/ •Briarcliff Entertainment: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls593605880/ •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/ •Paramount Pictures: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595947047/ •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/

Josephine Adair and Alice Lake in More to Be Pitied Than Scorned (1922)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Columbia_Pictures_films_(1922%E2%80%931939)

List of Columbia Pictures films (1922–1939)

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)

Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty in $ (1971)

Columbia (May 1936 - emerged from Poverty Row to a major studios of Hollywood) Part 1-2

Grace Moore and Franchot Tone in The King Steps Out (1936)

Keith Larsen in Son of Belle Starr (1953)

Titles deliberately omitted from my American Musical Feature Films list. (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021062047/) Expanded to include TV movies, specials.

A few are tagged as Music/Musical (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?lists=ls021564702,ls025185363&sort=release_date,asc), but I've watched them and would not consider them either.

Around 360 titles are singing-cowboy westerns made between 1930-1960. I didn't want to watch those as part of my sequential viewing of musicals, so I put them aside.

The majority, 1385+ titles, have "release" year 1998+, and too few votes for me to believe they were released in theatres across the country.

Heather Angel and Norman Foster in Pilgrimage (1933)

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