List of incomplete or partially lost films
Year Film Director Cast Notes
1930 Bright Lights Michael Curtiz Dorothy Mackaill No Technicolor print of this Vitaphone musical has survived
1930 The Cat Creeps Rupert Julian Helen Twelvetrees A short segment of this sound remake of The Cat and the Canary ( 1927 ) is included in the short film Boo ! ( 1932 ) , the only footage known to exist
1930 General Crack Alan Crosland John Barrymore The silent version of this film exists . The Vitaphone discs for the sound version survive , but matching film elements are lost
1930 Good News Nick Grinde Bessie Love The final reel in Technicolor is lost
1930 Isle of Escape Howard Bretherton Monte Blue , Betty Compson , Myrna Loy The barest of fragments survive
1930 Der Mann , der seinen Mörder sucht Robert Siodmak Heinz Rühmann , Lien Deyers , Hermann Speelmans , Friedrich Holländer Originally 98 minutes long , only a 52-minute version released in 1933 as Jim , der Mann mit der Narbe remains
1930 The Rogue Song Lionel Barrymore Lawrence Tibbett The soundtrack , two reels and several clips survive
1930 Chasing Rainbows Charles Reisner Bessie Love Black-and-white portion of the film is extant ; color sequences in the middle and end of the film are lost
1931 Annabelle 's Affairs Alfred L. Werker Jeanette MacDonald The last of Jeanette MacDonald 's films for Fox , only one reel is known to survive
1931 Fanny Foley Herself Edna May Oliver All-color film photographed in Technicolor . The University of California , Los Angeles Library 's Film & Television Archive has a color 35 mm trailer
1931 The Ghost Train Walter Forde Jack Hulbert Cicely Courtneidge Ann Todd Cyril Raymond Partially recovered ( five reels , two reels of the soundtrack ) as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films
1931 The Runaround William James Craft Mary Brian Originally released as a musical as Waiting for the Bride or Waiting at the Church in Technicolor , it was re-released under the new title with the musical parts cut . Only an incomplete , black-and-white copy of the cut version seems to have survived
1932 Condemned to Death Walter Forde Arthur Wontner , Gillian Lind , Gordon Harker , Cyril Raymond A cut version dubbed in French was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to search for lost films
1932 The Horror Bud Pollard Leslie King , Nyreda Montez Originally released at 70 minutes , this was re-cut to less than 40 minutes in the 1940s under the title of John the Drunkard . Only the latter version survives , at the Library of Congress
1932 Horse Feathers Norman Z. McLeod Marx Brothers The only existing prints of this film are missing several minutes , due to both censorship and damage
1932 Veiled Aristocrats Oscar Micheaux Lorenzo Tucker All that remains is the trailer and fragments of two reels
1932 Walking Down Broadway Erich von Stroheim James Dunn , Boots Mallory , ZaSu Pitts Withheld from release and re-edited as Hello , Sister ! , the original version remains lost
1932 Say It With Music Jack Payne and his Orchestra A trailer exists
1933 Deluge Felix E. Feist Sidney Blackmer For many years , Deluge was thought to be a lost film , but a print dubbed in Italian was found in a film archive in Italy in the late 1980s . Before the discovery , the only part of the film known to have survived was the impressive footage of the tidal wave destroying New York City , which was used in the Republic Pictures serials Dick Tracy vs. Crime , Inc. ( 1941 ) and King of the Rocket Men ( 1949 ) . In 2016 , a 35mm nitrate dupe negative with the English soundtrack was discovered . A 2K scan restoration was made by Lobster Films , and this restoration was picked up for a limited theatrical re-release by Kino Repertory , and a home media release by Kino Lorber Studio Classics in February 2017
1933 My Lips Betray John Boles The sixth reel is assumed to be lost
Sound films -- 1930s
The following is a list of notable films that are incomplete or partially lost. For films for which no footage (including trailers) is known to have survived, see List of lost films. Films that were never completed in the first place do not qualify.