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Subgenre Sampler
My Man Godfrey (1935)
- Dir. Gregory La Cava
Feat. Carole Lombard, William Powell, Gail Patrick… - Breathlessly nit–witty comedy from the screwball era with society dame Carole Lombard plucking William Powell out of skid–row for a…
Night at the Opera, A (1935)
- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx… - A Marx brothers extravaganza with the three sibling buffoons in top form as they wreak havoc on an opera company. As good as they get.
No Limit (1935)- Dir. Monty Banks
Feat. George Formby, Florence Desmond, Howard Douglas - The template for all the Ealing Studio comedies to follow, this follows 'George' (Formby), a chimney sweep with dreams of winning the Isle Of Man TT…
Petrified Forest, The (1935)- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Genevieve Tobin… - Featuring probably Bogart's first classic role, this adaptation of the Robert Sherwood play is set in a remote diner in Arizona where a fugitive…
Phantom Empire, The (1935)- Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
- Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
Roberta (1935)- Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers… - An unsuccessful American Football player inherits his Aunt's Parisian fashion house. One of the weaker Rogers/Astaire efforts.
Sanders Of The River (1935)- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson - Fascinatingly skewed epic set in a colonial protectorate in West Africa, where the British Commissioner (Banks) tries to cultivate 'civilized'…
Scrooge (1935)- Dir. Henry Edwards
Feat. Donald Calthrop, Sir Seymour Hicks - First screen adaptation of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' in which a mean old miser is shown the ghosts of Christmas past, present and…
She (1935)- Dir. Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden
Feat. Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack… - Influential, special effects laden fantasy from KING KONG producer Merian C. Cooper about a beguiling, 500–year–old woman as ruler of a…
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant - Katharine Hepburn looks smashing as a boy in this cross–dressing flop that was reappraised in the 1960s as a lost classic, with a unique style…
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