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 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
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
7.8/10
Director: Jack Conway
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Colman, Reginald Owen
An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges... Read more
The Crusades (1935)
6.7/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: C Aubrey Smith, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, Loretta Young
The Crusades was certainly DeMille's own version of history and because of this, bore little resemblance to historic fact. This caused the critics to... 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
The Devil is a Woman (1935)
7.6/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Bruce Cabot, Cary Grant, Cesar Romero, Gary Cooper, Herbert Marshall, Lionel Atw...
"The Devil is a Woman" (1935). Cesar Romero, Lionel Atwill also star. In order to nab a rich husband, French golddigger Dietrich fakes an illness at a... 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
David Copperfield (1935)
7.5/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, W C Fields, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbo...
Director Cukor assembled a fine cast to portray the assortment of characters that populate Charles Dickens' epic novel, the original title of which wa... Read more