Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1931

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1931
January 9 Little Caesar (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
January 17 Other Men’s Women (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
January 24 The Great Meadow (Limited) MGM  
 
January 30 City Lights (Exclusive) United Artists $18,165
 
January 31 Captain Applejack (Limited) Warner Bros.  
February 1931
February 1 Fighting Caravans (Wide)  
 
February 7 Dance, Fools, Dance (Limited)  
 
February 8 Millie (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
February 9 Cimarron (Limited)  
 
February 14 Dracula (Limited) Universal  
 
February 19 Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie (Limited) Self Distributed  
 
February 22 Kept Husbands (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
March 1931
March 15 Ingagi (Wide) $4,000,000
The Man in Search of His Murderer (Limited)  
April 1931
April 4 The Front Page (Wide)  
Dishonored (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
The Stolen Jools (Limited)  
 
April 11 The Finger Points (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 23 The Public Enemy (Limited) Warner Bros.  
May 1931
May 14 My Past (Limited) Warner Bros.  
July 1931
July 11 Smart Money (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
July 18 Chances (Limited) Warner Bros.  
August 1931
August 1 Tabu (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
August 7 Huckleberry Finn (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
August 8 Night Nurse (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
August 29 This Modern Age (Limited) MGM  
September 1931
September 5 Street Scene (Limited)  
 
September 12 Alexander Hamilton (Limited) Warner Bros.  
I Like Your Nerve (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
September 30 The Road to Singapore (Limited) Warner Bros.  
October 1931
October 22 One Way Passage (Limited)  
November 1931
November 14 Flying High (Wide)  
 
November 21 Frankenstein (Wide) $12,000,000
Possessed (Limited) MGM  
December 1931
December 12 Safe in Hell (Limited)  
 
December 26 Mata Hari (Wide) MGM $900,000