Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3634 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
39 Steps, The (1935)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft
- A ripping yarn about a innocent man embroiled in a spy conspiracy and is chased across Scotland. Set a sophisticated precedent for the spy/thriller…
Anna Karenina (1935)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone
- Leo Tolstoy's heroine is the ideal vehicle for Greta Garbo, luminous amid some of the more extravagant sets MGM ever lavished on a costume drama.
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…
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
Captain Blood (1935)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn
- Condemned surgeon Errol Flynn escapes and becomes a Caribbean pirate. Low–budgeted action–packed swashbuckler catapulted its star into…
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.
Crusades, The (1935)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon
- Hollywood Heavyweight Cecil B. DeMille Directs this overblown spectacle that differs vastly from it's grisly historical origins.
David Copperfield (1935)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. W.C. Fields
- Top–line Hollywood–ization of the Dickens classic.