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Subgenre Sampler

 
Man Who Knew Too Much, TheMan 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…
ManiacManiac (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 SoldiersMarch of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes In Toyland) (1934) Recommended
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, TheMerry Widow, The (1934) Recommended
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 BondageOf 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…
Our Daily BreadOur Daily Bread (1934)
Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper
Another fascinating sociological drama from director King Vidor about a struggling couple during the Great Depression who move to the country and…
Scarlet Empress, TheScarlet Empress, The (1934) Recommended
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe
Outrageously ornate telling of the rise of Russia's Catherine the Great. Marlene Dietrich plays the Empress, with her great director/collaborator at…
Scarlet Pimpernel, TheScarlet Pimpernel, The (1934) Recommended
Dir. Harold Young
Feat. Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Merle Oberon
Leslie Howard leads a double–life as an aristocratic fop by day and swashbuckling hero by night in the dark days of the French Revolution.…
Thin Man, TheThin Man, The (1934) Recommended
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy
Taken from Dashiell Hammett's novel, this near–perfect comedy–thriller virtually invented the genre, with William Powell and Myrna Loy as…
Twentieth CenturyTwentieth Century (1934) Recommended
Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
Cracking good comedy staged aboard a luxury express–train, where egomaniac theatre producer John Barrymore attempts to win back…

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