Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
- Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
- Charles Laughton (as Capt. Bligh) and Clark Gable spar memorably in this, the classic version. Winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1935.
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…
Naughty Marietta (1935)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy
- The first vehicle for onscreen singing duo Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy – both hugely popular in their day – is a rehash of an…
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…