Classic Drama
Classic Drama is where you will find most of those great films you either grew up with or have heard of but never got round to seeing. Generally dramatic productions made between 1928 and 1965 fill this section. "Silents" and contempory "Drama" (post 1965) can be found under their respective headings..
Right: Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd gaze into one another's eyes in "Ben Hur"
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, John Carradine, Harry Carey
Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) is arrested for being an accomplice to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.) when he unknowingly ai... Read more
The Humphrey Bogart Collection of Films: Across the Pacific / All Through the Night / Bullets or Ballots / Dark Passage (1936)
Director: Delmer Daves, John Huston, Vincent Sherman, William Keighley
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Lauren Bacall,...
Humphrey Bogart Box Set. 'Across the Pacific' (1942) - When disgraced American military officer Rick Leland (Bogart) boards a Japanese ship, he is app... Read more
Rembrandt (1936)
7.2/10
Director: Alexander Korda
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton
The depiction of the famous Dutch painter and his struggle to maintain his artistic integrity is related with respectful restraint and attention to fa... Read more
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Desire (1936)
7.3/10
Director: Frank Borzage
Starring: Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, William Frawley, Joh...
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France, but g... Read more
Mary of Scotland (1936)
6.4/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Fredric March, John Carradine, Katharine Hepburn
This tragic story deals with the short-lived reign of Mary Stuart. Surrounded by scheming Lords including her own brother, James Stuart, Mary seeks th... Read more
Une Partie de Campagne ( A Day in the Country ) (1936)
7.8/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux
A short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French... Read more
Screen Legends: Starring Bing Crosby (1936)
5.6/10
Director: Leo McCarey, Mark Sandrich, Norman Z McLeod, Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, Fred Asta...
A collection of four Bing Crosby classics. "Pennies From Heaven" (1936) - Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way through this charming... Read more
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