1934

Film Decades: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • 1860 – (Italy)
  • All of Me, starring Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March
  • Amok, directed by Fedor Ozep – (France)
  • Angèle, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Fernandel – (France)
  • Anne of Green Gables, starring Anne Shirley
  • Are We Civilized?, starring William Farnum
  • L’Atalante, directed by Jean Vigo, starring Michel Simon – (France)
  • Babes in Toyland, starring Laurel and Hardy
  • Babbit – directed by William Keighley, starring Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee and Claire Dodd
  • Baby Take a Bow, starring Shirley Temple
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton
  • The Battle, starring Merle Oberon, Charles Boyer and John Loder – (GB/France)
  • Belle of the Nineties – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Mae West and Johnny Mack Brown
  • Big Hearted Herbert – directed by William Keighley, starring Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee
  • The Big Road (Dalu), directed by Sun Yu – (China)
  • The Big Shakedown, starring Bette Davis and Charles Farrell
  • The Black Cat – directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
  • Bolero, starring George Raft and Carole Lombard
  • Boots! Boots!, starring George Formby – (GB – first film by Blakeley’s Productions)
  • Born to Be Bad – starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Jackie Kelk
  • Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple
  • Broadway Bill – directed by Frank Capra, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
  • Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, starring Ronald Colman
  • The Captain Hates the Sea – starring Victor McLaglen and John Gilbert in his last film role
  • Carolina, starring Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore
  • The Case of the Howling Dog, starring Warren William (as Perry Mason)
  • The Cat and the Fiddle, starring Ramón Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald
  • The Cat’s-Paw, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Chained – starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
  • Chapayev – winner of National Board of Review “Best Foreign Film” Award in 1935 – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Charlie Chan in London, starring Warner Oland and Ray Milland
  • Charlie Chan’s Courage, starring Warner Oland
  • The Circus Clown, starring Joe E. Brown
  • City Limits
  • Cleopatra – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
  • Colonel Blood, starring Frank Cellier
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Robert Donat
  • Crime Without Passion, starring Claude Rains
  • Dames, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, starring Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler
  • David Harum starring Will Rogers
  • Dark Hazard, starring Edward G. Robinson
  • Death on the Diamond starring Robert Young
  • Death Takes a Holiday, starring Fredric March
  • The Dream Car – (Hungary)
  • Don’t Make Grandpa Angry (Nezlobte dědečka) – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Dr. Monica- directed by William Keighley, starring Kay Francis, Warren William and Jean Muir
  • Easy to Love – directed by William Keighley, starring Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, and Edward Everett Horton
  • Evelyn Prentice, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Evergreen, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews – (GB)
  • Everybody’s Woman (La signora di tutti), directed by Max Ophüls, starring Isa Miranda – (Italy)
  • Fashions of 1934, starring William Powell and Bette Davis
  • Ferdowsi, starring Abdolhossein Sepanta and Ardeshir Irani (Iran)
  • Frontier Marshal, starring George O’ Brien
  • Fog Over Frisco, starring Bette Davis
  • Forbidden Territory, starring Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire, Binnie Barnes – (GB)
  • Forsaking All Others – starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery
  • Four Frightened People – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Claudette Colbert
  • Gambling, starring George M. Cohan
  • Gambling Lady – directed by Archie Mayo, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea
  • The Gay Bride, starring Carole Lombard
  • The Gay Divorcee – starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • The Girl from Missouri, starring Jean Harlow
  • Girl o’ My Dreams, starring Mary Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent, Lon Chaney Jr., Sterling Holloway
  • The Goddess (Shen nu) – (China)
  • Grand Canary, starring Warner Baxter
  • Le Grand Jeu (The Great Game), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
  • Great Expectations, starring Henry Hull and Jane Wyatt
  • Here Comes the Navy, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien
  • Here is My Heart, starring Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle
  • Hide-Out, starring Robert Montgomery and Margaret Sullavan
  • Hollywood Party, starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante and Lupe Velez
  • The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Loretta Young
  • I’ve Got Your Number, starring Joan Blondell and Pat O’Brien
  • Imitation of Life – starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
  • The Iron Duke, starring George Arliss
  • It Happened One Night – directed by Frank Capra, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert – winner of 5 Academy Awards
  • It’s a Gift, starring W.C. Fields
  • Jane Eyre, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive
  • Jew Suss, starring Conrad Veidt
  • Jimmy the Gent, starring James Cagney and Bette Davis
  • Jolly Fellows (Vesyolye rebyata) – the first Russian musical
  • Journal of a Crime – directed by William Keighley, and starring Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, and Claire Dodd
  • Juárez y Maximiliano (Juarez and Maximilian) – (Mexico)
  • Judge Priest, starring Will Rogers
  • The Key, starring William Powell and Edna Best
  • Kansas City Princess – directed by William Keighley, starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell
  • Kid Millions, starring Eddie Cantor
  • Kiss and Make-Up – starring Cary Grant, Helen Mack
  • The Lady Is Willing, starring Leslie Howard and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
  • The Last Round-Up – starring Randolph Scott
  • Lieutenant Kijé – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Liliom – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Charles Boyer – (France)
  • Limehouse Blues, starring George Raft and Jean Parker
  • Little Man, What Now?, starring Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery
  • The Little Minister – starring Katharine Hepburn and John Beal
  • Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple
  • A Lost Lady – directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, and Ricardo Cortez
  • The Lost Patrol – starring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff and Wallace Ford
  • The Lucky Texan – starring John Wayne
  • Madame Du Barry, starring Dolores del Río
  • Maniac, starring Horace B. Carpenter
  • The Man from Utah – starring John Wayne
  • Man of Aran (documentary), directed by Robert Flaherty – (GB)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre – (GB)
  • The Man with Two Faces, starring Edward G. Robinson
  • Managed Money, starring Shirley Temple
  • Mandalay, starring Kay Francis
  • Manhattan Melodrama – starring Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed) – directed by Billy Wilder
  • The Merry Widow (La veuve joyeuse), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald – (France/US)
  • Les Misérables, directed by Raymond Bernard, starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel – (France)
  • The Mighty Barnum, starring Wallace Beery
  • Murder at Monte Carlo – starring Errol Flynn – (GB)
  • The Mysterious Mr. Wong – starring Bela Lugosi
  • Now and Forever – starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
  • Now I’ll Tell – starring Spencer Tracy
  • Of Human Bondage, starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis
  • The Old Curiosity Shop, directed by Thomas Bentley – (GB)
  • The Old Fashioned Way, starring W.C. Fields
  • One More River, directed by James Whale
  • One Night of Love, starring Grace Moore
  • Operator 13 – starring Marion Davies and Gary Cooper
  • Our Daily Bread – directed by King Vidor, starring Karen Morley and Tom Keene
  • The Painted Veil, starring Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall
  • Pardon My Pups, a Shirley Temple short
  • Peck’s Bad Boy, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Cooper
  • Plunder of Peach and Plum (Taoli Jie) – (China)
  • The Private Life of Don Juan, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Merle Oberon – (GB)
  • The Pursuit of Happiness, directed by Alexander Hall
  • Radio Parade of 1935, starring Will Hay – (GB)
  • Red Ensign, starring Leslie Banks – (GB)
  • The Return of Bulldog Drummond, starring Ralph Richardson and Ann Todd – (GB)
  • The Return of Chandu – starring Bela Lugosi
  • The Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Fay Wray
  • Riptide, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
  • The Rise of Catherine the Great, starring Elisabeth Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. – (GB)
  • Road House, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Violet Loraine and Gordon Harker (GB)
  • Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (The King of the Champs-Élysées), starring Buster Keaton – (France)
  • Sadie McKee, starring Joan Crawford
  • The Scarlet Empress, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel, starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon – (GB)
  • The Secret Bride – directed by William Dieterle, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Warren William
  • Servants’ Entrance, starring Janet Gaynor
  • She Loves Me Not, starring Miriam Hopkins and Bing Crosby
  • Shirin and Farhad starring Roohangiz Saminejad. (Iran)
  • The Silver Streak, starring Charles Starrett
  • Sing as We Go, starring Gracie Fields and Stanley Holloway – (GB)
  • Six of a Kind – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland and W.C. Fields
  • Something Always Happens, directed by Michael Powell, starring, Ian Hunter, Nance O’Neil, Peter Gawthorne, Muriel George – (GB)
  • The Song of Ceylon, documentary directed by Basil Wright – (GB)
  • Song of the Fishermen (Yu guang qu) – (China)
  • Spitfire – starring Katharine Hepburn
  • The St. Louis Kid, starring James Cagney
  • Stand Up and Cheer! starring Warner Baxter and Madge Evans, featuring 5-year-old Shirley Temple.
  • A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukikusa monogatari), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
  • The Tars – (Netherlands)
  • Tarzan and His Mate, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan
  • The Thin Man, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Thirty-Day Princess – starring Sylvia Sydney and Cary Grant
  • Those Were the Days, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Will Hay and John Mills – (GB)
  • The Trail Beyond – starring John Wayne
  • Treasure Island, starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper
  • Twentieth Century – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard
  • Twenty Million Sweethearts – starring Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers
  • Unfinished Symphony, directed by Anthony Asquith (GB/Austria)
  • Viva Villa!, starring Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo and Fay Wray
  • Waltzes from Vienna – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Esmond Knight and Jessie Matthews – (GB)
  • We’re Not Dressing, starring Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard
  • We’re Rich Again, starring Edna May Oliver and Billie Burke
  • What Every Woman Knows, starring Helen Hayes
  • Whirlpool, starring Jack Holt and Jean Arthur
  • The White Parade, starring Loretta Young
  • A Wicked Woman, starring Mady Christians, Jean Parker and Charles Bickford
  • The Woman of the Port (La Mujer del Puerto) – (Mexico)
  • Wonder Bar, starring Al Jolson
  • Workers, Let’s Go (Hej rup!), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
  • You Can’t Buy Everything, starring May Robson and Jean Parker
  • You’re Telling Me!, starring W.C. Fields
  • Young and Beautiful
  • Zouzou, directed by Marc Allégret, starring Jean Gabin and Josephine Baker – (France)