Drama Movies of 1936
Romeo and Juliet
Director George Cukor and producer Irving G. Thalberg's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, a lavish production of Shakespeare's tale about two ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
San Francisco
The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Bullets or Ballots
Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Mary of Scotland
Maxwell Anderson's blank-verse play Mary of Scotland was adapted for the screen by Dudley Nichols and directed with a surprising paucity of verve by John Ford. Katharine Hepburn, ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
The Petrified Forest
Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason Maple (Porter Hall). Alan finds himself an object of fascination for Jason's starry-eyed daughter, ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Camille
Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy. Here, Garbo ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Dodsworth
In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel, ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Stowaway
Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young). Through a series of unbelievable ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Captain January
Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Fury
Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leaves her boyfriend, Joe Wilson (Tracy), behind in ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Come and Get It
Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the top, Arnold loses out on a chance for lasting happiness by spurning earthy dance hall ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Little Lord Fauntleroy
David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of bringing the "classics" to the ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
The Old Corral
A typical Gene Autry everything-but-the-kitchen-sink musical Western, The Old Corral featured the spectacle of Autry getting robbed ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Winterset
Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Great Guy
After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Pennies from Heaven
In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In jail on a trumped-up charge, Crosby meets a condemned prisoner, and promises the ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Postal Inspector
A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a prominent nightclub owner. The owner is guilty and only stole the mail so he could get the ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Rembrandt
Lightning steadfastly refused to strike twice for the director/actor team of Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton. Though the pair had scored ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
I Conquer the Sea
Dennis Morgan, still billed as Stanley Morner, essays his first leading role in the Halperin Brothers' I Conquer the Sea. The star is cast as Tommy, a harpooner on a whaling ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Murder in the Red Barn
Dear old Tod Slaughter serves up another chop-licking melodrama ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
The Cocaine Fiends
Often compared to Reefer Madness, this low-budget exploitation melodrama features Lois January as ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
The Healer
A pre-stardom Mickey Rooney earned top billing when this minor medical drama was re-released in 1939 as Little Pal (Rooney by then having become the nation's top ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
The Lion Man
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Lad and the Lion, which had been filmed previously in 1917, this ersatz-Tarzan melodrama shifts the scene from Darkest Africa to the Arabian Desert. The treacherous Sheik ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Marihuana
This companion to Reefer Madness is an early anti-weed faux documentary which chronicles one girl's descent into crime and prostitution, the result of her marijuana dependency. It was originally released as Marijuana - The ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Reefer Madness
This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of comically bad cinema due to its dated, ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
Shadow of Chinatown [Serial]
Notorious Hollywood tightwad Sam Katzman's first serial, Shadow of Chinatown stars Bela Lugosi as Victor Poten, a Eurasian with a destructive hatred of both whites and Asians hired by ... [ Drama movie - 1936 ]
