Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
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.
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