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Subgenre Sampler
Sabotage (1936)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder - Suspenseful early Hitchcock, with a foreign saboteur terrorising London.
Secret Agent, The (1936)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud - Peter Lorre plays a reluctant officer assigned to kill a WW2 spy. Good Hitchcock fare from his early career.
39 Steps, The (1935)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft - A ripping yarn about a innocent man embroiled in a spy conspiracy and is chased across Scotland. Set a sophisticated precedent for the spy/thriller…
Crime and Punishment (1935)- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh - Modest adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a criminology student turned murderer who becomes tortured with remorse.
Petrified Forest, The (1935)- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Genevieve Tobin… - Featuring probably Bogart's first classic role, this adaptation of the Robert Sherwood play is set in a remote diner in Arizona where a fugitive…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre - Peter Lorre stars in this original version as the villain who kidnaps an innocent man's child to ensure his silence. Budget limitations are overcome…
Thin Man, The (1934)- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy - Taken from Dashiell Hammett's novel, this near–perfect comedy–thriller virtually invented the genre, with William Powell and Myrna Loy as…
A Shriek in the Night (1933)- Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark… - A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Kennel Murder Case, The (1933)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. William Powell, Mary Astor - Stylish murder mystery from the pre code era with William Powell playing detective and Scottish Terrier owner Philo Vance, popularised in the novels…
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (1933)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge - Dir. Lang's brilliant sequel to the silent DR. MABUSE – THE GAMBLER, rethinking his vision of the evil controlling mastermind for the nascent…
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