Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Shall We Dance (1937)
- Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pretend to be married in this last notable musical of their partnership. Features the classic roller–skate…
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
- Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker…
- Capra–lite comedy set in Scotland with Harrison as a journalist falling for a local politicians daughter.
Three Stooges Collection, The (1937-1946)
- Feat. The Three Stooges
- A collection of approximately one sixth of the Three Stooges prolific output, encompassing 29 shorts and a feature–length outing, SWING PARADE…
Topper / Topper Returns (1937)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young…
- Once classic comedy concerns a deceased young couple (Grant and Bennett) who as ghosts haunt the dull life of a banker. Spawned several sequels…
Way Out West (1937)
- Dir. James W Horne
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
- One of Laurel and Hardy's best features, spreading their brand of chaos into the Old West.
After the Thin Man (1936)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart…
- That great American screen coupling, William Powell and Myrna Loy, forgo their New Year's celebrations to wittily dissect another murder mystery. A…
As You Like It (1936)
- Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sir Felix Aylmer…
- Early cinematic adaptation of the bard's comedy is stagey and very mannered, but boasts an exceptional cast with a young Olivier a stand out.
Chronological Donald, The (1936-1941)
- An excellent archive collection of all the early shorts starring Walt Disney's most successful cartoon character – Donald Duck. Includes an…
Desire (1936)
- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper
- Cooper and Dietrich make a spellbinding duo in this highly entertaining tale of an automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain who becomes…
Gay Desperado, The (1936)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Nino Martini…
- A light comedy with operatic tenor Nino Martini playing a singer who works as a live entertainer in a movie theatre, and is kidnapped by a trigger…