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Subgenre Sampler
Adventure in Sahara (1938)- Dir. D. Ross Lederman
Feat. C. Henry Gordon, Paul Kelly - Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. Following the death of his brother, Jim Wilson joins the French Foreign Legion and is stationed in Northern…
Algiers (1938)- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie… - Remake of a PEPE LE MOKO, in which a dashing jewel thief who has been hiding out for two years in the mysterious, murky Casbah, falls madly in love…
Bete Humaine, La (1938)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux… - Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty… - Prime British Hitchcock, tracks a brilliantly–plotted mystery of an old lady's disappearance on a trans–Europe train, with…
Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows) (1938)- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan - The forever anti–heroic Jean Gabin takes on an underworld of pimps and perverts in this gloomy French classic, a major influence on the film…
Dark Journey (1937)- Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Ursula Jeans… - British spy caper with Leigh as a French spy falling for a German double–agent.
Pepe Le Moko (1937)- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin - Jean Gabin plays a super–cool gangster who finds immunity in the Algierian Casbah. Marvellously romantic, this classic of the French golden age…
You Only Live Once (1937)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney - An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Young and Innocent (1937)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont - A young girl aids a fugitive on the run, who she believes is innocent. Hitch adds some clever twists to his reworking of THE 39 STEPS.
After the Thin Man (1936)- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart… - That great American screen coupling, William Powell and Myrna Loy, forgo their New Year's celebrations to wittily dissect another murder mystery. A…
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