Pack Up Your Troubles: Some American Films from 1932 (Volume 1)

The year 1932 was a critical point in American history. The Great Depression was in full swing, and the clock was running down on the final year of a presidential administration that had long since exhausted its supply of ineffectual remedies to the financial crisis that was even now slouching its way toward absolute rock bottom.

Meanwhile, the country's mood had reached its emotional and psychological nadir. With no coherent alternative offering hope of redemption, there existed the palpab...