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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Twentieth Century (1934)- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Barrymore, Carole Lombard - Cracking good comedy staged aboard a luxury express–train, where egomaniac theatre producer John Barrymore attempts to win back…
Vanishing Shadow, The (1934)- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince… - 12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
42nd Street (1933)- Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent - The definitive backstage musical, centered around a chorus girl's shot at stardom when the leading lady twists her ankle. Busby Berkeley wrote the…
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…
Alice in Wonderland (1933)- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Charlotte Henry, Edward Everett Horton, W.C. Fields… - Extravagant early version of the Lewis Carroll classic was a box office bomb in its day, but age has been kind, and if Charlotte Henry is a little…
Betty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939)- Dir. Max Fleisher
- An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933)- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck - Barbara Stanwyck plays an American missionary in Shanghai who comes to fall in love with her Chinese warlord abductor. Eloquent, sensual cinema with…
- Cry of the Bewitched / Vampire Bat, The (1933-1956)
- Dir. Frank Strayer, Alfredo Crevenna
Feat. Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas… - A double feature of low–rent but worthy horrors: The Vampire Bat (1933) Directed by Frank Strayer – An eerie suspenser in which a mad…
- Devil's Brother, The (1933)
- Dir. Hal Roach
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy - Laurel and Hardy become fearless highwaymen in 1700s Italy but meet their match in a notorious highwayman. Funny spoof of Auber's operetta.
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