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Mr. Deeds Goes to TownMr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Recommended
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Archetypal screwball comedy stars Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds, a country hick who arrives in New York to collect a 20 million dollar inheritance, which…
OlympiaOlympia (Olympiad) (1936)
Dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Hitler confidant Leni Riefenstahl's legendary recording of the Berlin Olympics when German nationalism and Nazi pride was at fever pitch. A…
Osaka ElegyOsaka 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…
Pennies from Heaven (1936)
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby vehicle sees the showman protecting a little girl from the big bad school system.
Plainsman, ThePlainsman, The (1936)
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
A brash, implausible Western from grand master DeMille: Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur run amok in a spectacle that wildly bastardizes the Old West and…
Poor Little Rich GirlPoor 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 ManPopeye - 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…
Princess Comes Across, ThePrincess Comes Across, The (1936)
Dir. William K. Howard
Feat. Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglas Dumbrille
Carole Lombard, playing a Swedish princess on the sly, falls for Fred MacMurray on board an ocean liner. Romance–cum–murder mystery is…
Prisoner of Shark Island, ThePrisoner of Shark Island, The (1936) Recommended
Dir. John Ford
Feat. Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart
Gripping John Ford–directed prison yarn is based on the ordeal of Dr. Samuel Mudd, a famous victim of circumstance who unknowingly cared for…
Reefer MadnessReefer Madness (1936)
Dir. Louis Gasnier
Feat. Dave O'Brien
Hilarious anti–marijuana film from the 1930's that depicts the likes of – 'One puff of pot can lead your clean–cut teenagers down…

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