1936

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)

• 15 Maiden Lane, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero
• Accused, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Dolores del Río (GB)
• Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), starring Ashok Kumar (India)
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italy)
• After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch) (Mexico)
• The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss – starring Cary Grant – (GB)
• Anthony Adverse – starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
• Anything Goes, starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
• Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener – (Germany/Poland)
• Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet (France)
• Banjo on My Knee – directed by John Cromwell, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McRea
• Black Eyes directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
• Blood on Wolf Mountain (Lang shan die xue ji) – (China)
• The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• The Bold Caballero, starring Robert Livingston
• Born to Dance – starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart
• Broken Blossoms, starring Emlyn Williams and Dolly Haas
• Bullets or Ballots – directed by William Keighley, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, and Humphrey Bogart
• By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet (U.S.S.R.)
• Cain and Mabel – starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
• Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly) (Czechoslovakia)
• Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
• Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
• The Case Against Mrs. Ames, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
• Ceiling Zero – directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien
• César, directed by Marcel Pagnol (France)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade – directed Michael Curtiz – starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
• The Children of Captain Grant
• Circus (Tsirk) (U.S.S.R.)
• Collegiate, starring Frances Langford and Betty Grable
• Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea
• The Court Concert – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Mártha Eggerth, Johannes Heesters, & Kurt Meisel
• Craig’s Wife, starring Rosalind Russell
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir (France)
• Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler (GB)
• Daniel Boone, starring George O’Brien
• The Desert Island (Lang tao sha) (China)
• Desire – starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
• Devdas (India)
• The Devil-Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O’Sullivan
• Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
• Dodsworth – directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
• Dracula’s Daughter, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
• Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus (UK)
• East Meets West, starring George Arliss (UK)
• Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
• Everything Is Thunder, starring Constance Bennett (UK)
• The Final Chord – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lil Dagover, Willy Birgel, & Maria von Tasnady
• Follow the Fleet – starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner (UK)
• The Four Musketeers (Italy)
• Fury – starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
• The Garden of Allah – starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine
• The General Died at Dawn – starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
• General Spanky, starring Spanky McFarland
• Girl Friends (Podrugi) (U.S.S.R.)
• Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley’s 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
• God’s Country and the Women – directed by William Keighley, George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, Alan Hale, Sr. and Joe King
• Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
• The Gorgeous Hussy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor
• The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
• Green Pastures – directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson – adapted from the 1923 stage play
• Hearts Divided, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
• Hearts in Bondage, starring David Manners and Mae Clarke
• His Brother’s Wife – directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor
• Hopalong Cassidy Returns, starring William Boyd
• I’ll Give a Million (Darò un milione) – starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
• Intermezzo – starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman – (Sweden)
• The Invisible Ray – starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
• It Had to Happen, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
• It’s Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young (GB)
• The Jungle Princess, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
• Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) – (Germany)
• Laburnum Grove, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke (GB)
• The Last of the Mohicans – starring Randolph Scott
• The Last Outlaw, starring Harry Carey
• The Lawless Nineties – starring John Wayne
• Legion of Terror, starring Bruce Cabot
• Let’s Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) (Mexico)
• Libeled Lady – starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
• Limelight, starring Anna Neagle (GB)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith
• Lloyd’s of London, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power
• Love Before Breakfast, starring Carole Lombard and Preston Foster
• Love in Exile, starring Helen Vinson and Clive Brook (GB)
• Love on the Run – starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
• The Man Who Changed His Mind, starring Boris Karloff (GB)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson (GB)
• Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux (France)
• Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison (GB)
• A Message to Garcia – directed by George Marshall, starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles and Wallace Beery
• Militiaman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler) – (Germany)
• The Milky Way, starring Harold Lloyd
• Modern Times – written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard
• The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
• The Moon’s Our Home, starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
• My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
• Next Time We Love – starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland
• Night Mail, documentary (GB)
• The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
• Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
• Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy
• Palm Springs, starring Frances Langford and David Niven
• Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji) (Czechoslovakia)
• Pennies from Heaven, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans
• The Petrified Forest – starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
• The Plough and the Stars – directed by John Ford, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster
• Poppy, starring W.C. Fields
• The Plainsman – starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
• Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley
• The Prisoner of Shark Island – directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
• Private Number, starring Loretta Young and Robert Taylor
• Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
• Redes – directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
• Ramona, starring Don Ameche and Loretta Young
• Rebellion – starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
• Reefer Madness, (aka Tell Your Children), a cult exploitation film
• Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
• Road Gang, starring Donald Woods
• The Road to Glory – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March
• Romeo and Juliet – directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone
• Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• Sabotage – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
• San Francisco – starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
• Satan Met a Lady, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
• Secret Agent – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll (GB)
• Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
• Silly Billies, starring Al Jolson
• The Singing Kid – directed by William Keighley, starring Al Jolson, Sybil Jason, Beverly Roberts, Edward Everett Horton, Lyle Talbot and Allen Jenkins
• Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
• Small Town Girl – directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, James Stewart
• Sportszerelem (Hungary)
• Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas (GB)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
• Stowaway, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye
• Sutter’s Gold, starring Edward Arnold
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter (GB)
• Swing Time – starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Tarzan Escapes, starring Johnny Weissmuller
• The Texas Rangers – directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie
• Theodora Goes Wild, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
• These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea (adapted from Lillian Hellman play The Children’s Hour)
• Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke (GB)
• Thirteen Hours by Air, starring Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett
• Three Godfathers, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
• Till We Meet Again, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
• Too Many Parents, debut film for Frances Farmer
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, starring Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
• Tudor Rose, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills (GB)
• Under Your Spell – directed by Otto Preminger
• The Walking Dead – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff
• Where There’s a Will, starring Will Hay – (GB)
• Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper – (GB)
• Wife vs. Secretary – starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy
• Windbag the Sailor, starring Will Hay (GB)
• A Woman Rebels – starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall
• Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon (Poland/U.S.)