Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Our 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, The (1934)
- 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, The (1934)
- 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, The (1934)
- 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 Century (1934)
- 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, 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 Street (1933)
- 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…