List of Rediscovered Films - Sound Era - 1930s

1930s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes
1930	The Bat Whispers	Roland West		One of the first films shot in widescreen. A complete print was discovered and restored in the late 1990s.
1930	Bed and Breakfast	Walter Forde	Jane Baxter Richard Cooper Sari Maritza Alf Goddard	It was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films.
1930	Limite	Mário Peixoto		Experimental silent feature made in Brazil. The restored complete version had its U.S. premiere in Brooklyn, New York in November 2010.
1930	Mamba	Albert S. Rogell	Jean Hersholt Eleanor Boardman Ralph Forbes	Footage from the final reel (stored at the UCLA Film and Television Archive) and all the Vitaphone soundtrack discs for this Technicolor film were originally thought to be the only elements from the film to survive. A complete print of the film, running nine reels, and four soundtrack discs were discovered in Australia in 2009.
1930	Wara Wara	José Maria Velasco Maidana		The only known surviving Bolivian film of the silent era. Discovered in a La Paz basement in 1989, it required over a decade of restoration and was not released until 2010.
1931	Dick & Doof - Spuk um Mitternacht	James Parrott	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy	German version (spoken by Laurel and Hardy) of Laurel & Hardy's Berth Marks/The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case, found 2004 in Moscow's film archive.
1931	The Ghost Train	Walter Forde	Jack Hulbert Cicely Courtneidge Ann Todd Cyril Raymond	It was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films.
1931	Love and Duty	Bu Wancang	Ruan Lingyu	Silent film made in China, and rediscovered in Uruguay in the 1990s.
1931	The Smiling Lieutenant	Ernst Lubitsch		Rediscovered in Denmark in the 1980s.
1931	The Stolen Jools	William C. McGann	All-star cast	Made for a charity, film was discovered in the UK under its alternate title The Slippery Pearls.
1932	Condemned to Death	Walter Forde	Arthur Wontner Gillian Lind Gordon Harker Cyril Raymond	It was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films.
1932	Doctor X	Michael Curtiz	Lee Tracy Fay Wray	Technicolor version found in personal vault of Jack L. Warner.
1932	His Lordship	Michael Powell	Jerry Verno Janet McGrew
1932	The Most Dangerous Game	Irving Pichel Ernest B. Schoedsack	Fay Wray	A horror movie filmed on the same set as King Kong.
1932	The Old Dark House	James Whale	Boris Karloff Melvyn Douglas Gloria Stuart	Thought lost for decades, filmmaker Curtis Harrington discovered a print in the Universal Studios vault, which was restored by Eastman House.
1932	Rynox	Michael Powell	Stuart Rome John Longden	Found in the vaults of Pinewood Studios in 1990.
1933	Berkeley Square	Frank Lloyd	Leslie Howard Heather Angel Valerie Taylor	Rediscovered in the 1970s.
1933	The Ghoul	T. Hayes Hunter	Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger	A damaged, incomplete print was found in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, and was thought to be the only surviving copy until a nearly-pristine one was found in the archives of the British Film Institute.
1933	Hello Pop!	Jack Cummings	Ted Healy, The Three Stooges	Full Technicolor print found in Sydney, Australia in January 2013.
1933	Mystery of the Wax Museum	Michael Curtiz	Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray	Technicolor version found in personal vault of Jack L. Warner.
1933	Der Sieg des Glaubens	Leni Riefenstahl	Adolf Hitler	This 64-minute documentary was ordered destroyed by Hitler for showing Nazi party member Ernst Röhm, who had been murdered on Hitler's orders. A copy was found in Britain in the 1990s.
1933	The Power and the Glory	William K. Howard	Spencer Tracy	By 1971, the negative had deteriorated and only fragments were available. Was later restored.
1933	Ojo Okichi (Miss Okichi)	Kenji Mizoguchi	Isuz Yamada	This film did not actually appear in official filmographies of Mizoguchi until a print was discovered in the vaults of Shochiku studios in 2008.
1934	Of Human Bondage	John Cromwell	Leslie Howard, Bette Davis	The negative was discovered to have been destroyed in 1964 when actress Kim Novak requested a print. A copy was recovered several years later.
1935	Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht	Leni Riefenstahl	Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler	Thought to have been lost following World War II, an incomplete print running 28 minutes was discovered in the 1970s.
1936	Border Vengeance	Ray Heinz	Reb Russell, Mary Jane Carey, Kenneth MacDonald	Formerly listed on the Internet Movie Database as a lost film, a copy was made available as a free download circa 2004 as part of the collection of the Internet Archive.
1937	Slaves in Bondage	Elmer Clifton	Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley	Long listed on the Internet Movie Database as a lost film, it resurfaced on DVD in the mid-2000s.
1939	Le Jour Se Lève	Marcel Carné	Jean Gabin, Jules Berry & Arletty	When RKO acquired the distribution rights to Le Jour se lève in preparation for remaking it as The Long Night, they also sought to buy up and destroy all available prints of the original film. For a time, it was thought that the French film had been lost completely, but copies re-appeared in the 1950s and its classic status was re-established.
1939	Smith	Michael Powell	Ralph Richardson & Flora Robson	A short film made in 1939 to promote an ex-servicemen's charity. It got caught up in the start of World War II and wasn't shown publicly. It wasn't even mentioned by Powell in his autobiography. A copy was found in 2003 and it had its first public screening in the UK in 2004. 65 years after it was completed.
1939	Tevya	Maurice Schwartz	Maurice Schwartz Julius Adler	Long thought lost, a print was discovered and restored in 1978.

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