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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…
Vanishing Shadow, TheVanishing Shadow, The (1934)
Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince
12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
42nd Street42nd Street (1933) Recommended
Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
The definitive backstage musical, centered around a chorus girl's shot at stardom when the leading lady twists her ankle. Busby Berkeley wrote the…
A Shriek in the NightA Shriek in the Night (1933)
Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark
A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Alice in WonderlandAlice in Wonderland (1933)
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Charlotte Henry, Edward Everett Horton, W.C. Fields
Extravagant early version of the Lewis Carroll classic was a box office bomb in its day, but age has been kind, and if Charlotte Henry is a little…
Betty Boop - The Ultimate CollectionBetty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939)
Dir. Max Fleisher
An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…

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