Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3554 Films to Rent
Swing Time (1936)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- A fine example of Fred and Ginger's magical screen partnership, their sixth together, weaving the music of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, into…
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Benita Hume
- One of the best Weissmuller TARZAN sequels, has the jungleman kidnapped by hunters and taken back to England. Excitingly action–packed.
Texas Rangers, The (1936)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker…
- High–end, intricately plotted Western from King Vidor about three outlaws in a scheme to pose as Texas Rangers and gain the advantage in…
Things to Come (1936)
- Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman
- Mind–boggling visualisation of a 21st century utopia, with ant–like humans inhabiting monolithic structures on towering, ten–acre…
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (1936)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda
- This pioneering colour film is an engaging old–fashioned Western tale of loyalty, family and romance set against an age–old feud between…
Dangerous + Hell's House (1935/32)
- Dir. Alfred Green, Howard Higgin
Feat. Bette Davis
- Bette Davis in two early roles – her lead performance as a star–turned–alcoholic in DANGEROUS fetching her the first of two Best…
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…
Anna Karenina (1935)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone
- Leo Tolstoy's heroine is the ideal vehicle for Greta Garbo, luminous amid some of the more extravagant sets MGM ever lavished on a costume drama.
Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
Barbary Coast (1935)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson…
- Set as far out west as a Western can go – San Fransisco, circa the 1850s gold–rush days. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are two…