Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1845 Films to Buy & Rent
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
- Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart…
- One of the great Shirley Temple musicals, with the wee dynamo playing a runaway who is successfully recruited into a travelling vaudeville show, of…
Popeye - The Sailor Man (1936-1956)
- One of the longest–running cartoon sensations of all time, Popeye the Sailor Man burst into cinemas in 1933 in a BETTY BOOP cartoon and soon…
Little Colonel, The (1935)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple
- One of Shirley Temple's best vehicles is set in the Deep South, with young Shirl attempting to patch–up her grandparent's broken marriage.
Mickey Mouse in Living Color (1935-1995)
- The ultimate cartoon personification of Walt Disney's entertainment empire – Mickey Mouse – is presented in all his glory here, in two…
Scrooge (1935)
- Dir. Henry Edwards
Feat. Donald Calthrop, Sir Seymour Hicks
- First screen adaptation of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' in which a mean old miser is shown the ghosts of Christmas past, present and…
Anne of Green Gables (1934)
- Dir. Dawn O'Day
Feat. Dawn O'Day, Tom Brown, Sara Haden…
- Charming early adaptation of the classic L.M. Montgomery novel starring Dawn O'Day as Anne Shirley (Dawn legally changed her name to Anne Shirley…
Bright Eyes (1934)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell…
- Colourised version of an early Shirley Temple classic – with the recently orphaned cutie mixed up in an adoption battle. Features the song,…
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…
Alice 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…
Disney Fables - Volume 4 (1932-1935)
- Six classic short animations from Disney, mostly from their early years.
1. "The Tortoise and the Hare"
2. "The Pied Piper"
3. "The Golden…