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Subgenre Sampler

 
Power of the PressPower of the Press (1943)
Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Went the Day Well?Went the Day Well? (1942) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Swamp WaterSwamp Water (1941)
Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
RebeccaRebecca (1940) Recommended
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Algiers Algiers (1938)
Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie
Remake of a PEPE LE MOKO, in which a dashing jewel thief who has been hiding out for two years in the mysterious, murky Casbah, falls madly in love…
Burning Crucible, TheBurning Crucible, The (Le Brasier Ardent) (1923)
Dir. Ivan Mosjoukine
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine
Melodrama styled as a semi–comic Kafkaesque nightmare. The film that inspired Jean Renoir to start directing.
RegenerationRegeneration (w/ Young Romance) (1915)
Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh, Rockliffe Fellowes
The debut feature of director Raoul Walsh is an early gangster film following the trajectory of a poor orphan who grows up to assume a powerful…

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