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Best Drama Films of 1935


Anna Karenina

This second filmization of ... the finest accomplishment of the felicitous 1930s alliance between star Greta Garbo, director Clarence Brown and cinematographer William Daniels. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

David Copperfield

David Copperfield was MGM's ... whole production, and this, as much as Selznick's sumptuous production values, is the key to David Copperfield's enormous success. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

G-Men

In G Men, Warner ... Brian's superfluous opening comments that seem hopelessly dated, while the film itself is as exciting and entertaining as ever. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

A Tale of Two Cities

It is a tale ... achieved the stature of the 1935 version and its excellent combination of star power, technical brilliance and great storytelling. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

The Little Colonel

Shirley Temple's first costume ... The Little Colonel, while Temple's famous stair-dance duet with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was worth the admission price in itself. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Alice Adams

Katharine Hepburn stars as ... well as one of the few Katharine Hepburn vehicles of the 1930s to score a hit with the public. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Curly Top

This adaptation of the ... and Jane Darwell as the orphanage officials and by Arthur Treacher and Billy Gilbert as the hero's household servants. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Annie Oakley

This highly fictionalized biopic ... of the writers of Annie Oakley, collaborated with his sister Dorothy on the libretto of Annie Get Your Gun). [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Becky Sharp

Now famous as the ... which updated the story to the 20th century and cast dumb-blonde specialist Joyce Compton in the role of Becky. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

The Informer

The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's ... be completed. The film was remade in 1968, relocated to the black ghetto of Los Angeles and retitled Uptight!. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Sons of Steel

In this drama, two ... and stages a strike against the mill. Then he learns his father's status and begins trying to make peace. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

The Headline Woman

This typically lightning-paced Mascot ... does receive billing in his last important screen assignment before a leg amputation forced him to retire from films. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

What Price Crime?

One of several poverty-row ... flower girl in Chaplin's City Lights). Despite its urban setting, much of What Price Crime was economically filmed out-of-doors. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Convention Girl

Filmed on location in ... convention girl who nearly loses her virtue, and comedian Shemp Howard in a "straight" role as a petty thief. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Port of Lost Dreams

In this drama, a ... send her to prison anyway. This leads the captain to commit a crime so he can be near her. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Scrooge

Starring Seymour Hicks as ... Hicks co-wrote the screenplay to this film, which is a thoroughly entertaining and effective retelling of a familiar story [ best drama films - 1935 ]

The Fighting Pilot

A daredevil pilot saves ... with death, the villains are finally captured and Hal wins the hand of the inventor's grateful daughter (Gertrude Messinger). [ best drama films - 1935 ]

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Edward Eggleston's best-selling novel ... Hoosier Schoolmaster was one of the last productions from the "old" Monogram outfit before its absorption by Republic Pictures. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Assassin of Youth

That deadly demon weed, ... fountaineer and befriends one particularly troubled young girl and also helps her escape the horrors of her terrifying addiction. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Life Returns

A scientist working on ... asphyxiation victims back to life is stopped by gangsters. [ best drama films - 1935 ]

Dharmatma

V. Shantaram directs this ... actions. The poet eventually defends himself to an angry mob by reading the poems of Pradyananda Shastri of Kashi. [ best drama films - 1935 ]




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