Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3554 Films to Rent
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…
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…
Rembrandt (1936)
- Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Charles Laughton
- Vignettes from the life of the great 17th century painter whose popularity sharply regressed after he painted 'The Nightwatchmen'. Charles Laughton…
Sabotage (1936)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder
- Suspenseful early Hitchcock, with a foreign saboteur terrorising London.
San Francisco (1936)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke, D.W. Griffith
Feat. Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
- Outstanding chronicle of old Frisco, climaxing with great FX earthquake. Stars Clark Gable, amid all star cast .
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.
Show Boat (1936)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger…
- A faithful adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein's 1920's stage musical covering four decades as an aspiring actor goes from working a Mississippi…