1936 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1936 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1936 lists will be Thursday, October 1st at approximately 5 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

My preliminary list:

Alla En El Rancho Grande -
Camille - Cukor
Celos -
Devil Doll - Browning
Dracula's Daughter
Follow The Fleet -
Fury - Lang
The Garden Of Allah-
Modern Times - Chaplin
My Man Godfrey - La Cava
Redes - Fred Zinnemann, E. Gomez Muriel
Sabotage - Hitchcock
Secret Agent- Hitchcock
Vamonos Con Pancho Villa - de Fuentes
A Woman Rebels - Sanders

[greennui]

1. César (Marcel Pagnol)

My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Swing Time (George Stevens)
Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner)
Ceiling Zero (Howard Hawks)
Girls’ Club (Jacques Deval)
Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
Ferryman Maria (Frank Wisbar)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi),
The Only Son (Yasujirō Ozu)
Show Boat (James Whale)
Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich)
Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
La Fontaine d'Aréthuse (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
Il caso Valdemar (Ubaldo Magnaghi/Gianni Hoepli)
Intermezzo (Gustaf Molander)
Mayerling (Anatole Litvak)
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa (Fernando de Fuentes)
To Spring (Various)

[flip]

from what i've seen, not one of the deeper years from the 1930s, but i'm sure i've missed a lot:

Catherine the Last (Henry Koster)

Mr Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
Wife vs Secretary (Clarence Brown)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
These Three (William Wyler)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Milky Way (Leo McCarey)
Lloyd's of London (Henry King)
Three Smart Girls (Henry Koster)
Redes (Fred Zinnemann/Emilio Gomez Muriel)
I'd Give My Life (Edwin Marin)
Dancing Feet (Joseph Santley)
Murder at Glen Athol (Frank Strayer)

[pabs]

My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
Modern Times (Chaplin)



Watchlist/Watched for this poll

By the Bluest of Seas

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

YAY to '36.

Things I've liked that might need plugging and that haven't yet been named:
• Big Brown Eyes (Raoul Walsh) -- Mystery-comedy w/ Joan Bennett and Cary Grant, for fans of Me and My Gal grace notes.
• Bullets or Ballots (William Keighley) -- Great? No. But an interesting document of bringing Edward G. Robinson up to Code.
• Captain January (David Butler) -- Twentieth Century-Fox knows not to meddle with a winning formula: all you need to make a movie is Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, and a lighthouse.
• Cheer Up (Leo Mittler) -- Wonderful Quota Quickie musical comedy pick-me-up, starring Ida Lupino's dad.
• Glückskinder (Paul Martin) -- Haven't seen this in half a decade. It's a fluffy highly American-style (set in Chicago!) screwball/Capra newspaper comedy musical, made in the Nazi-era German film industry. For anyone who is interested in understanding the Nazi-era German film industry and its relationship to global film culture, I consider it essential and interesting viewing. But if someone just wants to not watch movies made in that context, that's totally fair.
• La Vie est à nous (Parti communiste français) -- And now for some good politics! Masterpiece of French communist party agitprop, made collectively, by a group including such well-knowns as Renoir, Becker, and Henri-Cartier Bresson. A strong #1 contender, though it's challenged by the first Deanna Durbin.
• The Princess Comes Across (William K. Howard) -- All aboard for Lubitschian touches! Delightful, sleek rom-com mystery on an ocean liner with Carole Lombard sending up Greta Garbo and Fred MacMurray as a sexy concertina-squeezer.
• Page Miss Glory (Tex Avery) -- Delightful, impeccably designed musical celebration of '30s modernization, Warners Cartoons style.
• Three Smart Girls (Henry Koster) -- Deanna's first feature, a perfect pick-me-up.

[sally]

Can't talk, watching movies!

Like flip said, 36 is a bit of a crummy year? I've only seen 30 or so, my worst year in ages (not counting the 1900's)

Prepare for me to be begging

[Umbugbene]

1. Modern Times (Chaplin)

2. Ferryman Maria (Wisbar)
3. Story of a Cheat (Guitry
4. Mr. Thank You (Shimizu)
5. Somewhere in Dreamland (Fleischer)
6. The Secret Agent (Hitchcock)
7. Glückskinder (Martin)
8. The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (Freleng)
9. The New Testament (Guitry)
10. Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
11. La belle équipe (Duvivier)
12. The Great Ziegfeld (Leonard)

[nrh]

does anyone have a good word for the sternberg? kind of want to see it for completist reasons but it doesn't look great...

curious about the 4 dwans, but it looks like only human cargo and high tension ("strangest plot for a screwball comedy ever" - jerry johnson) are available, not 15 maiden lane which looks pretty good.

[St. Gloede]

César (1936, Marcel Pagnol)

Gion no shimai / Sisters of the Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)
My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936Michael Curtiz)
Dodsworth (1936, William Wyler)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936, John Ford)
Arigatô-san / Mr. Thank You (1936, Hiroshi Shimizu)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936, Robert Z. Leonard)
Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
The Petrified Forest (1936, Archie Mayo)
Mon père avait raison / My Father Was Right (1936, Sacha Guitry)
Hitori musuko / The Only Son (1936, Yasujirô Ozu)
Les Bas-fonds / The Lower Depths (1936, Jean Renoir)
Mayerling (1936, Anatole Litvak)
Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
Redes (1936, Emilio Gómez Muriel & Fred Zinnemann)
Things to Come (1936, William Cameron Menzies)
La belle équipe / They Were Five (1936, Julien Duvivier)
The Devil-Doll (1936, Tod Browning)

[rischka]

how interesting that i just watched la belle equipe yesterday -- yet another duvivier ruined by misogynist stereotypes *sigh*

[karl]

That's funny, I think it's a purty excellent year. Tough call... between the two Mizoguchis... for number one.

Still on the road, so dunno if I'll see many nor any, but the desire's stronger than 2004 certainly. I never did finish the Pagnol trilogy, can't recall why. Who has a subtitled copy of the 1936 TOPAZE handy?

Osaka Elegy
Sisters of Gion
A Day in the Country
The Only Son
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Mr. Thank You
Sabotage
Allotria
Modern Times
By the Bluest of Seas
Fury
The Crime of M. Lange
The Prisoner of Shark Island
La Belle équipe
A Capricious Young Man
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Desire
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Redes
The Trail of Lonesome Pine

[flip]

Things I've liked that might need plugging and that haven't yet been named:
...
• Three Smart Girls (Henry Koster) -- Deanna's first feature, a perfect pick-me-up.

i named that, naturally

very interesting list btw!

[rischka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl2zL89Ib6Q

[---]

1. The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu, 1936)

Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa (Fernando de Fuentes, 1936)
Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)
Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936)
The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936)
"Wanted – A Master" (Arthur Ornitz/Gunther von Fritsch, 1936)

[brian d]

allá en el rancho grande (de fuentes)
vámanos con pancho villa (de fuentes)
mr thank you (shimizu)
by the bluest of seas (barnet)
modern times (chaplin)
the only son (ozu)
sisters of the gion (mizoguchi)
les bas-fonds (renoir)
redes (zinnemann; gómez muriel)
rose hobart (cornell)
carne de fieras (guerra)
amar jyoti (shantaram)
le retour à la vie (dulac)
houses of poverty (storck)
priest of darkness (yamanaka)
sant tukaram (damle; fattelal)
the prisoner of shark island (ford)

to watch:
jeune fille au jardin (kirsanoff)
the fountain of arethusa (kirsanoff)
may (zahradníček, burian)

[thoxans]

The STORY of a CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)

a day in the country (jean renoir)
fury (fritz lang)
mary of scotland (john ford)
my man godfrey (gregory la cava)
the prisoner of shark island (john ford)
robin hood of el dorado (william a. wellman)
show boat (james whale)
the walking dead (michael curtiz)

[rischka]

wait there's a hindi pirate film?? and it's on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vwX4W_Fqw

[nrh]

there was a whole spate of women doing stunts and action movies in 30s india! fearless nadia was probably the most famous, and her miss frontier mail is also from '36 and on youtube, what it lacks in technical skill it kind of makes up for in exuberance.

[sally]

right so my watch list is running at 72 films. probably not going to get to them all, but if people want to specify more screw-ball comedies that's okay with me (i have put a request in for glückskinder in the year poll watchlist thread, amongst others)

what i got so far:
showboat
mr thank you
let's make a dream
my father was right
the new testament
by the bluest of seas
the crime of monsieur lange
my man godfrey
the garden of allah (thanks greg for choosing this for a poll/game/something once)
samson - tourneur
ramona - king
allotria
jenny - carne
the substitute husband - vaala legal to watch link with subs https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... uva_118019
night mail
redes

also please point out the most most most technicolor movies

[greennui]

also please point out the most most most technicolor movies

Four technicolor films were released in 36 and you've seen two of them.

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-trail-o ... some-pine/
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-garden-of-allah/
https://letterboxd.com/film/ramona/
https://letterboxd.com/film/dancing-pirate/

[sally]

dancing pirate???? seems like only the b&w version is available also the clip i saw had unbelievably bad acting in so fine i'll watch lonesome pine

[Holymanm]

The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936)

The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu, 1936)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
Poppy (A. Edward Sutherland, 1936)
Sweet Dream (Ju-nam Yang, 1936)



Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)

[grabmymask]

1. Dracula’s Daughter

[greennui]

Not sure if I've ever seen Fred MacMurray or Sylvia Sidney in colour before.

[sally]

oooh oooh ooh i found another female director - mary field. BFI has loads of lovely little adverts and travel docs but i think you can only watch them in britain, right? mary's field seems to be nature docs but the british narration is so clipped i can barely understand what the bloke is saying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ijF1ucMps

and just cuz. because once britain was better than displaying the fucking flag of oswald moseleys fascist party in trafalgar square in fucking 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQDOjQGZuA

[ofrene]

Modern Times
Sabotage

can't recall By the Bluest of Seas at all(need rewatch)
A Day in a Country is 1946 according to IMDB (don't know why It changed...)

Is it necessary to watch Marius and Fanny before Cesar? I know that three is trilogy..

[Lencho of the Apes]

honorable mention

youtube

You linked us to the 1948 remake, that's not the 1936 version.

[rischka]

honorable mention

youtube

You linked us to the 1948 remake, that's not the 1936 version.

oops seduced by jorge negrete *fixed*

[greennui]

Is it necessary to watch Marius and Fanny before Cesar? I know that three is trilogy..

It probably could stand on it's own but it wouldn't hit as hard.