Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3628 Films to Buy & Rent
Dames (1934)
- Dir. Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Feat. Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, ZaSu Pitts…
- This blissful musical battle between stage–hopefuls and a disapproving decency group is often referred to by critics as the 'Gold Diggers of…
Gay Divorcee, The (1934)
- Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers received top–billing for the first time in this excellent revision of Cole Porter's Broadway musical. Songs…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 2 (The Cat's Paw, The Milky Way) (1934-1936)
- Dir. Sam Taylor, Leo McCarey
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Two classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes THE CAT'S PAW, with Lloyd entangled in local body politics; and THE MILKY WAY, in which the silent…
It Happened One Night (1934)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
- The first film to win all five major Oscars is the classic story of an East–end boy who goes about winning the heart and changing the snobbish…
L'Atalante (1934)
- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste
- A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre
- Peter Lorre stars in this original version as the villain who kidnaps an innocent man's child to ensure his silence. Budget limitations are overcome…
Maniac (1934)
- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods
- Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
March of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes In Toyland) (1934)
- Dir. Gus Meins, Charles R. Rogers
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
- Imaginative musical fantasia also makes the most of Laurel and Hardy's comic genius – as dim–witted toymakers whose mistaken order for…
Merry Widow, The (1934)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
- Out of cold–blooded patriotism to his homeland Marshovia, gadabout Maurice Chevalier attempts to seduce millionairess Jeanette MacDonald into…
Of Human Bondage (1934)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
- The film which propelled Bette Davis to stardom, with her vivid personification of a coy, but slutty Cockney waitress who becomes the object of…