Drama Movies of 1935
Anna Karenina
This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character, the sheltered wife of Czarist official Rathbone. Intending to dissuade Rathbone's ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
David Copperfield
David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
G-Men
In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
A Tale of Two Cities
It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the MGM Studios, David O. Selznick producing. "It was the best of ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
The Little Colonel
Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The story begins in 1870, when unreconstructed Southerner Colonel Lloyd (Lionel ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Alice Adams
Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the "better people." Luck of luck, ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Curly Top
This adaptation of the oft-filmed Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs has been tailored to the talents of Shirley Temple. The orphaned daughter of vaudeville entertainers, Elizabeth Blair (Temple) is the most precocious ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Annie Oakley
This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie. Coming down ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Becky Sharp
Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort in its own right. ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
The Informer
The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Sons of Steel
In this drama, two disparate brothers use radically different methods to raise their sons. The brothers co-own a successful steel mill, but that is about all they have in common. ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
The Headline Woman
This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking socialite named Myrna Van Buren. During a raid on a gambling joint, Myrna witnesses the murder of gambler Johnny Corinti ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
What Price Crime?
One of several poverty-row films which vanished from sight during the 1935-36 movie season, Beacon Productions did its best to stay afloat as long as possible with ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Convention Girl
Filmed on location in Atlantic City, Convention Girl is the story of Babe Laval (Rose Hobart), whose job it is to keep out-of-town conventioneers entertained during their visits to the New Jersey resort town. Though Babe has a tough veneer, ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Port of Lost Dreams
In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love with captain. They ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Scrooge
Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
The Fighting Pilot
A daredevil pilot saves the inventor of a new airplane from a gang of thieves in this stunt-oriented melodrama starring Richard Talmadge. When F.S. Reynolds (William Humphrey) refuses to sell his newest airplane, crooked ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Edward Eggleston's best-selling novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster was brought to the screen in 1935 by Monogram Pictures, which specialized in such bucolic entertainments. Norman Foster plays the title character, an ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Assassin of Youth
That deadly demon weed, marijuana, is the subject of this campy exploitation film from the mid-'30s. It is set in a small town and follows the exploits of a group of decadent ... [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
Life Returns
A scientist working on bringing asphyxiation victims back to life is stopped by gangsters. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1935 ]
