Martial arts films of the 1930s

46 films: 41 boxing films, 3 jidaigeki (period dramas), 2 samurai films.

1930

• Love in the Ring (1930) – Reinhold Schünzel

1931

• Bobby Gets Going (1931) – Harry Piel
• Iron Man (1931) – Tod Browning
• The Champ (1931) – King Vidor

1932

• Battling Bosko (1932) – Hugh Harman
• They Never Come Back (1932) – Fred C. Newmeyer
• Winner Take All (1932) – Roy Del Ruth

1933

• King for a Night (1933) – Kurt Neumann
• Money Talks (1933) – Norman Lee
• The Big Chance (1933) – Albert Herman
• The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) – Archie Mayo
• The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) – W. S. Van Dyke

1934

• Palooka (1934) – Benjamin Stoloff
• Punch Drunks (1934) – Lou Breslow
• The Personality Kid (1934) – Alan Crosland

1935

• Aerograd (1935) – Oleksandr Dovzhenko
• Knockout (1935) – Karel Lamač
• The Irish in Us (1935) – Lloyd Bacon
• The Million Ryo Pot (1935) – Sadao Yamanaka

1936

• Akanishi Kakita (1936) – Mansaku Itami
• Cain and Mabel (1936) – Lloyd Bacon
• Conflict (1936) – David Howard
• Excuse My Glove (1936) – Redd Davis
• Orphan of the Wilderness (1936) – Ken G. Hall
• The Milky Way (1936) – Leo McCarey
• Toby Tortoise Returns (1936) – Wilfred Jackson
• Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936) – Gordon Wiles

1937

• Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) – Maclean Rogers
• Flying Fists (1937) – Robert F. Hill
• Keep Fit (1937) – Anthony Kimmins
• Kid Galahad (1937) – Michael Curtiz
• The Kings of Sport (1937) – Pierre Colombier
• When's Your Birthday? (1937) – Harry Beaumont

1938

• Count Me Out (1938) – Ben Hardaway
• Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) – David Howard
• Little Orphan Annie (1938) – Ben Holmes
• Porky & Daffy (1938) – Bob Clampett
• Spirit of Youth (1938) – Harry L. Fraser
• The Abe Clan (1938) – Hisatora Kumagai
• The Crowd Roars (1938) – Richard Thorpe
• The Giant (1938) – Mansaku Itami
• The Kid Comes Back (1938) – B. Reeves Eason

1939

• Golden Boy (1939) – Rouben Mamoulian
• I, His Father (1939) – Mario Bonnard
• Keep Punching (1939) – John Clein
• There Ain't No Justice (1939) – Pen Tennyson

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