1935 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1935, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Top Hat
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
Country: United States of America
Outline: An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
Roberta
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Starring: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott
Country: United States of America
Outline: In Paris, a man clueless about fashion suddenly inherits his aunt's dress shop, while his bandleader friend reunites with his old flame.
China Seas
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Country: United States of America
Outline: When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship.
The Littlest Rebel
Directed by: David Butler
Starring: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley
Country: United States of America
Outline: Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the ...
The Crusades
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith
Country: United States of America
Outline: King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.
Bride of Frankenstein
Directed by: James Whale
Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Country: United States of America
Outline: Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
The 39 Steps
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Country: United States of America
Outline: A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Captain Blood
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Country: United States of America
Outline: After being wrongly convicted as a traitor, Peter Blood, an English physician, is sent to exile in the British colonies of the Caribbean, where he becomes a pirate.
Ruggles of Red Gap
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Starring: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zasu Pitts
Country: United States of America
Outline: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
The Good Fairy
Directed by: William Wyler
Starring: Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen
Outline: A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.
Gold Diggers of 1935
Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Starring: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady
Country: United States of America
Outline: Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
The Informer
Directed by: John Ford
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame
Country: United States of America
Outline: In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Mazurka
Directed by: Willi Forst
Starring: Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Ingeborg Theek, Franziska Kinz
Outline: A female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician.
Charlie Chan in Paris
Directed by: Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Starring: Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes
Outline: Hired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee helps him uncover the true culprits.
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Directed by: James Tinling
Starring: Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks
Outline: When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
Peter Ibbetson
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino
Country: United States of America
Outline: Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love ...
Show Them No Mercy!
Directed by: George Marshall
Starring: Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris
Outline: The title refers to the government's plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. When Hudson and Norris enter a country house to get out of the rain it turns out ...
The Little Colonel
Directed by: David Butler
Starring: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge
Country: United States of America
Outline: After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years ...
The Raven
Directed by: Lew Landers
Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware
Country: United States of America
Outline: A brilliant surgeon obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can't have her.
Anna Karenina
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Starring: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan
Country: United States of America
Outline: The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
Dangerous
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Starring: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth
Country: United States of America
Outline: An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.
The Gilded Lily
Directed by: Wesley Ruggles
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith
Outline: A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer, courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
Stranded
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Starring: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis, Donald Woods
Outline: Stranded is a 1935 American drama film starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Patricia Ellis. It was directed by Frank Borzage.
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