Subgenre Sampler
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- 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…
Olympia (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 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, 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 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…
Princess 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, The (1936)
- 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 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…