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Rembrandt (1936)
- Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Charles Laughton
- Vignettes from the life of the great 17th century painter whose popularity sharply regressed after he painted 'The Nightwatchmen'. Charles Laughton…
San Francisco (1936)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke, D.W. Griffith
Feat. Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
- Outstanding chronicle of old Frisco, climaxing with great FX earthquake. Stars Clark Gable, amid all star cast .
Swing Time (1936)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- A fine example of Fred and Ginger's magical screen partnership, their sixth together, weaving the music of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, into…
Dangerous + Hell's House (1935/32)
- Dir. Alfred Green, Howard Higgin
Feat. Bette Davis
- Bette Davis in two early roles – her lead performance as a star–turned–alcoholic in DANGEROUS fetching her the first of two Best…
Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
Barbary Coast (1935)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson…
- Set as far out west as a Western can go – San Fransisco, circa the 1850s gold–rush days. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are two…
Crime and Punishment (1935)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh
- Modest adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a criminology student turned murderer who becomes tortured with remorse.
David Copperfield (1935)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. W.C. Fields
- Top–line Hollywood–ization of the Dickens classic.
Informer, The (1935)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Victor McLaglen
- Stunning character study unfolds when an IRA leader is sold out by his dim–witted friend for reward money. Full–blooded acting by all was…
Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1935)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Rene Lefevre, Florelle , Jules Berry
- One of the dir.’s early classics. Rene Leferve rises to newsprint fame as the author of the serial “Arizona Jim” after his boss, a…