Post by Swithin on Jun 14, 2023 2:41:58 GMT
1936 gave us so many great and famous films, as well as some enticing titles which I am not familiar with.
Among my favorite 1936 films:
Anthony Adverse -- This film has everything: sex, religion, aristocracy, grand opera, and Oscar's first supporting actress winner. Possibly my favorite movie of all time.
The Invisible Ray -- One of the great horror films, and perhaps the first about misuse of science. As Madame Rukh (Violent Kemble Cooper) says to her son Janos (Boris Karloff) at the end of the film: "My son, you have broken the first rule of science." Also with Bela Lugosi and Beulah Bondi.
Klondike Annie -- They said Mae West became tamer when the Code came in. This film is not tame! She's the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber), a Chinese nightclub owner. That opening number "I'm an Occidental Woman in an Oriental Mood for Love" is one of the steamiest songs on film, with Chan Lo and the Chinese men leering at her. The lyric "And I feel the thrill of China when I see a yellow Buddha moon above" doesn't refer to the orb in the sky!
The Prisoner of Shark Island -- An underrated John Ford gem, about Dr. Mudd.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine -- Mountain family feud between the Falins and the Tollivers. The first full-length outdoor Technicolor film. Beautiful, sad film, with a great cast, and perhaps Beulah Bondi's best speech:
"Sakes and sassafras! Thinking boils the pot over. It boils over and over and over if you ain't thinking.
Killing. All the time killing. They are planning it now. They done it yesterday, and the week before, and the year before that.
Ever since I was a little child they done it. Kill a Falin. Kill a Falin. That's all they could say.
Plowing, splitting reins. Filling the corn crib. Kill a Falin! And the echo comes back to us from over the hills.
Kill a Tolliver. Kill. Kill. Why?"
Among my favorite 1936 films:
Anthony Adverse -- This film has everything: sex, religion, aristocracy, grand opera, and Oscar's first supporting actress winner. Possibly my favorite movie of all time.
The Invisible Ray -- One of the great horror films, and perhaps the first about misuse of science. As Madame Rukh (Violent Kemble Cooper) says to her son Janos (Boris Karloff) at the end of the film: "My son, you have broken the first rule of science." Also with Bela Lugosi and Beulah Bondi.
Klondike Annie -- They said Mae West became tamer when the Code came in. This film is not tame! She's the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber), a Chinese nightclub owner. That opening number "I'm an Occidental Woman in an Oriental Mood for Love" is one of the steamiest songs on film, with Chan Lo and the Chinese men leering at her. The lyric "And I feel the thrill of China when I see a yellow Buddha moon above" doesn't refer to the orb in the sky!
The Prisoner of Shark Island -- An underrated John Ford gem, about Dr. Mudd.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine -- Mountain family feud between the Falins and the Tollivers. The first full-length outdoor Technicolor film. Beautiful, sad film, with a great cast, and perhaps Beulah Bondi's best speech:
"Sakes and sassafras! Thinking boils the pot over. It boils over and over and over if you ain't thinking.
Killing. All the time killing. They are planning it now. They done it yesterday, and the week before, and the year before that.
Ever since I was a little child they done it. Kill a Falin. Kill a Falin. That's all they could say.
Plowing, splitting reins. Filling the corn crib. Kill a Falin! And the echo comes back to us from over the hills.
Kill a Tolliver. Kill. Kill. Why?"