Drama
The denotative aspects of drama from Aristotle's "Poetics" include a story development with a beginning, middle and an end. In the more conventional sense, dramatic presentations include the portrayal of characters, settings, life situations and stories in the course of a theatrical performance. In theatre, drama usually takes on the scope of dealing with matters of a serious nature.
Drama is Alice's largest section and a treasure trove of great drama catering for every taste. The bulk of the "Drama" section (generally made since 1965 and include psychological dramas) is listed below, however you may also choose from the "Classic Drama" sub-section (generally made before 1965), in blue on left. Also helpful may be "Alices Playhouse", "True Stories" and "Shakespeare" features.
Right: Scene from Kubrick's beautifully mounted "Barry Lyndon"
Klondike Annie (1936)
6.7/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Mae West, Harold Huber
Mae West plays Rose Carlton, the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber), who's life takes a turn for the worse when she kills Chan and flees to the froz... Read more
The Amazing Adventure (1936)
7.6/10
Director: Alfred Zeisler
Starring: Cary Grant, Mary Brian
Based on the novel by E. Philips Oppenheim, Cary Grant stars as Ernest Bliss, an unhappy playboy who bets his cynical doctor he can live for a year on... Read more
Fury (1936)
7.9/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Walter Brennan
Fritz Lang's first American film after fleeing Nazi Germany is a perceptive indictment of the mob mentality when lynchings were still a grim fact of l... Read more
The Petrified Forest (1936)
7.6/10
Director: Archie Mayo
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
Adapted from Robert E Sherwood's Broadway hit, Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard reprise their respective stage roles as gangster, Duke and writer, Al... Read more
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
6.4/10
Director: Ernest B Schoedsack, Merian C Cooper
Starring: Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale
In the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity. Read more
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
7.3/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
Majestic in its scope, this rousing, superlative adventure details the camaraderie between British soldiers on the Northwest frontier of India. Gary C... Read more
Les Miserables (1935/1952 Versions) (1935)
7.4/10
Director: Lewis Milestone, Richard Boleslawski
Starring: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget,...
This collection includes two adaptations of Victor Hugo's acclaimed novel. First, Fredric March stars in director Richard Boleslawski's 1935 version a... Read more
She (1935)
6.6/10
Director: Irving Pichel, Lansing C Holden
Starring: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
A rollicking adaptation of H Rider Haggard's novel about a party of adventurers searching for a mystical element hidden in the Arctic that can provide... Read more
New Adventures of Tarzan: Volume 1 (1935)
5.4/10
Director: Edward Kull
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt
This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). Their goal: the "Green God... Read more
Captain Blood (1935)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Lionel Atwill, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn is the young physician, sentenced to slavery, who's rescued by Olivia de Havilland and begins a life of piracy on the high seas. Superb sw... Read more