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RobertaRoberta (1935)
Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
An unsuccessful American Football player inherits his Aunt's Parisian fashion house. One of the weaker Rogers/Astaire efforts.
Tale of Two CitiesTale of Two Cities (1935) Recommended
Dir. Jack Conway
Feat. Ronald Colman
A model screen adaptation of a classic novel. Script and spectacle are in perfect accord to tell Charles Dickens' story of courage and honour in 18th…
Born to be BadBorn to be Bad (1934)
Dir. Lowell Sherman
Feat. Loretta Young, Cary Grant
A worthy though now–obscure melodrama from pre–Hays Code Hollywood, in which street–tramp Young tries to successively rob, extort…
L'AtalanteL'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.
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…
Baby FaceBaby Face (1933)
Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent
Pre–code Hollywood–era revenge drama that ruffled a few feathers in it's day, with Barbara Stanwyk playing a woman who decides to turn…
EcstasyEcstasy (1933)
Dir. Gustav Machety
Feat. Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr came to world attention in this 1932 film, playing a sexually–frustrated bride who goes on a fifteen minute nude romp in an alpine…
LiebeleiLiebelei (1933)
Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler
An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
Queen ChristinaQueen Christina (1933)
Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
Historical costume drama with Greta Garbo appropriately cast as the Swedish Queen.

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