Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- Dir. Harry Lachman
Feat. Fay Wray, Richard Dix
- Not very good.
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
- Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter…
- Frankly, one of the most devastating movies ever made, this long neglected classic served as inspiration for Ozu's revered TOKYO STORY many years…
O.H.M.S (You're in the Army Now) (1937)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Mills, Wallace Ford, Anna Lee…
- Broad comedy with Ford as an American gangster who evades capture by joining the British army posing as a comedian.
Stella Dallas (1937)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles
- Definitive family melodrama in which Barbara Stanwyck compels as the social–climbing Stella, ultimately driven to painful self–knowledge…
Uncivilised (1937)
- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry
- Illogical Chauval epic with a white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, kidnapped by an Afghan slaver!
César (1936)
- Dir. Marcel Pagnol
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay…
- Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
Dodsworth (1936)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas…
- While on a European holiday, businessman Walter Huston's marriage reaches crisis point. A mature, highly–rated studio pic with especially…
Fury (1936)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney
- Blunt statement against the mob–mentality with Spencer Tracy as an innocent man set upon by vicious locals intent on lynching with extreme…
Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine…
- Katharine Hepburn stars as Mary, Queen of Scots who, after languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth I's command, is offered a pardon if she will…
Osaka Elegy (1936)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura
- A counterpart to Mizoguchi's other 1936 film SISTERS OF THE GION, featuring some of the same cast and crew and again focusing on the hardships faced…