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"
Shanghai Express (1932)
7.4/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Anna May Wong, Clive Brook, Marlene Dietrich, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette
This exotic Marlene Dietrich classic is set aboard Peking Railroad's great train, inhabited by a host of fascinating characters: Shanghai Lily (Dietri... Read more
Grand Hotel ( Blu-ray ) (1932)
7.6/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Welcome to Grand Hotel - a beautiful Berlin establishment filled with palatial splendor and whose occupants include Greta Garbo as a fading ballerina,... Read more
Scarface (1932)
7.8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Paul Muni, George Raft, Ann Dvorak, Boris Karloff
One of the earliest and most powerful gangster films ever made, courtesy of producer Howard Hughes, director Howard Hawks and co-writer Ben Hecht. Pau... Read more
The Old Dark House (1932)
7.3/10
Director: James Whale
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
This was one of the most literate and visually striking horror films of the thirties. A classic mix of thrills, scares and laughs from 'Frankenstein'... Read more
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
8.1/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Glenda Farrell, Preston Foster, Paul Muni, Helen Vinson
Mervyn LeRoy's searing adaptation of Robert E. Burns' autobiography stars Paul Muni as a drifter unfairly sentenced to 10 years' hard labour on a Geor... Read more
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
6.5/10
Director: Frank Borzage
Starring: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
The first Hemingway novel to reach the screen, nominated for four Oscars, with riveting performances by Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper as the sweet Engli... Read more
Grand Hotel (1932)
7.6/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Welcome to Grand Hotel - a beautiful Berlin establishment filled with palatial splendor and whose occupants include Greta Garbo as a fading ballerina,... Read more
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
7.3/10
Director: Ernest B Schoedsack
Starring: Irving Pichel, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
Schoedsack and Pichel's adaptation of the famous 1924 short story by Richard Connell that was filmed on the same jungle sets as 'King Kong'. On a dens... Read more
Rain (1932)
6.9/10
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan
W Somerset Maugham's story of Sadie Thompson, who became a classic of stage, screen and literature, with a brilliant performance from Joan Crawford as... Read more
The Vanishing Legion (1931)
7.1/10
Director: Ford Beebe, B Reeves Eason
Starring: Harry Carey
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of... Read more