Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
Follow the Fleet (1936)
- Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- Astaire & Rogers musical that marked a career peak for the pair after TOP HAT. Irving Berlin scores.
Fury (1936)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney
- Blunt statement against the mob–mentality with Spencer Tracy as an innocent man set upon by vicious locals intent on lynching with extreme…
Garden of Allah (1936)
- Dir. Richard Boleslawski
Feat. Marlene Dietrich
- Disaffected socialite Marlene Dietrich journeys to the Sahara looking for meaning in her life, and finds unexpected romance. Rather…
Gay Desperado, The (1936)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Nino Martini…
- A light comedy with operatic tenor Nino Martini playing a singer who works as a live entertainer in a movie theatre, and is kidnapped by a trigger…
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
- Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
- A showbiz epic centred round the life of vaudeville impressario Florence Ziegfeld, who rose to prominence after the 1893 Chicago World Fair and went…
Jacques Tati Shorts (1936)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
- Three rare short comedies for those that can't get enough of the French funnyman. Watch your Left! (1936), School for Postmen (1947), and Evening…
Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
- Dir. Monty Banks
Feat. George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton
- An endearing Formby is at his gormless best in this musical comedy, where he must find his aunt's inheritance sewn up in 12 chairs that have…
Klondike Annie (1936)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Mae West, Victor McLaglen
- Star–centric comedy based on the play by Mae West with the steamy starlet taking the lead role as a club entertainer dabbling in romantic…
Marihuana (1936)
- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Harlene Wood
- Perhaps second only to REEFER MADNESS in demonstrating the perils of dope with laughably straight–faced paranoia, this sees some unsuspecting…
Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine…
- Katharine Hepburn stars as Mary, Queen of Scots who, after languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth I's command, is offered a pardon if she will…