Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3628 Films to Buy & Rent
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 Married Her Boss (1935)
- Dir. Gregory La Cava
Feat. Claudette Colbert
- Pleasant romantic comedy stars Claudette Colbert, who just may regret her marital decision.
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…
Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- Dir. Jack Conway
Feat. Ronald Colman
- A model screen adaptation of a classic novel. Script and spectacle are in perfect accord to tell Charles Dickens' story of courage and honour in 18th…