1935 Poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1935 (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 1935 lists will be Tuesday, Oct 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

I'll do swapsies with anyone that watches Peter Ibbetson...

seen and had feelings for

The Bride Of Frankenstein - Whale
Crime And Punishment -
The Girl In The Rumpr
Janitzio -
Mad Love -
Mark Of The Vampire - Browning
A Midsummer Night's Dream -
A Night At The Opera -
Peter Ibbetson
Sylvia Scarlett - Cukor
The Thirty-Nine Steps - Hitchcock



Watchlist of death

The Actress And The Poet - Naruse
Alice Adams -
Amphitryon - Schunzel
Anna Karenina - Clarence Brown
Becky Sharp - Mamoulian
Behold The Man - Duvivier
Bonne Chance - S. Guitry no subs?
The Bride Of Frankenstein - Whale
The Call Of The Wild - Wellman
Captain Blood - Curtiz
Casta Diva - Gallone
Crime And Punishment - von Sternberg
The Crusades - de Mille
David Copperfield - Cukor
Devdas - Pramathesh Barua no subs?
Dharmatma - V. Shantaram no subs?
Dhoop Chhaon no subs?
Divine - Ophuls
Frontier/Aerograd - Dovzhenko
Fukujuso -
G-Men - Keighley
Hands ACross The Table - Leisen
Happiness/Schaste - Medvedkin
The Informer - Ford
An Inn In Tokyo - Ozu
Jaymoti - Jyoti Prashad Agarwala
Krestyane/Peasants - Ermler Russian, no subs?
Loss Of Feeling/Jim Rippleis Robots - Andriyevsky
Mad Love -
Mark Of The Vampire - Browning
Mazurka - Willi Forst
Murderr In Harlem - Micheaux
The New Gulliver - Ptushko
A Night At The Opera -
Orizuro Ozen - Mizoguchi
Peter Ibbetson
Remember Last Night? - Whale
A Strict Young Man - Abram Room
The Thirty-Nine steps - Hitchcock
The Wedding Night - Vidor
Wife! Be Like A Rose - Naruse

[rischka]

top two virtually tied:

sazen tange and the pot worth a million ryo - yamanaka
an inn in tokyo - ozu
the 39 steps - hitch
steamboat round the bend - ford
ruggles of red gap - mccarey
bride of frankenstein - whale
top hat - sandrich
the good fairy - wyler
sylvia scarlett - cukor
captain blood - curtiz
a night at the opera - wood
carnival in flanders - feyder
happiness - medvedkin
the girl in the rumor - naruse
three sisters with maiden hearts - naruse
black sheep - dwan
the student of prague - robison
the scoundrel - hecht
mad love - freund
the black room - neill

open to suggestions. i might rewatch the sternberg/dietrich - first time i couldn't get past the fact he called her character concha

other stuff i've got lying around

i'll give a million
the informer
the mystery of edwin drood
the passing of the third floor back
three cornered hat
toni - renoir (i'll definitely watch this)
suburban cabaret

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Oh yes oh no, this is *so* my vibration, but school will be starting up. I will try valiantly to keep my watchlist realistic and my priorities straight, I will try !

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Recommendations:
— Darò un milione (Mario Camerini)
— The Face of Britain (Paul Rotha)
— Stop That Noise! (Betty Boop cartoon)
— Sylvia Scarlett (Cukor)
— The Tin Man (Patsy Kelly-Thelma Todd comedy)
— Bar 20 Rides Again (Hopalong Cassidy western on a Napoleonic theme!)
— Westward Ho! (well-made John Wayne B oater)

[sally]

Bless you lencho I can hear again

[rischka]

it's a labor day miracle! socialism is magic

[St. Gloede]

Seen 59 feature length films and 1 short from 1935. Not too ideal, but I can muster a mostly great, i.e. 7.5+ top 20. Would like to replace the bottom 3-5 though:

1. Schastye / Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin)

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935, William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)
3. Tôkyô no eiyû / A Hero of Tokyo (1935, Hiroshi Shimizu)
4. Remous / Whirlpool (1935, Edmond T. Gréville)
5. La kermesse héroïque / Carnival in Flanders (1935, Jacques Feyder)
6. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935, Henry Hathaway)
7. Mazurka (1935, Willi Forst)
8. The Informer (1935, John Ford)
9. The Good Fairy (1935, William Wyler)
10. Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)

11. Les Misérables (1935, Richard Boleslawski)
12. Saakasu goningumi / Five Men in the Circus (1935, Mikio Naruse)
13. Toni (1935, Jean Renoir)
14. Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935, Sadao Yamanaka)
15. La Bandera / Escape from Yesterday (1935, Julien Duvivier)
16. The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
17. Captain Blood (1935, Michael Curtiz)
18. Mad Love (1935, Karl Freund)
19. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
20. Darò un milione / I'll Give a Million (1935, Mario Camerini)

(I may not vote for all in my final ballot regardless)

[greennui]

The only year in the 30's from which I haven't got a strong favourite!

1. The Steel Animal (Willy Zielke)
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka)
Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
The Cradles (Dimitri Kirsanoff)

[sally]

OK, will assemble a proper list when I get home, but the marsh croft sirk & amphitryon are delish.

And my current how-hots are Clive brook & Conrad veidt so that's tonite's dinner sorted.

[Umbugbene]

I haven't seen any masterpieces from this year, but a few films are worth seeing/studying:

1. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
2. A Night at the Opera (Wood/Goulding)
3. Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd)
4. The Devil Is a Woman (von Sterberg)
5. Dancing on the Moon (Fleischer)
6. A Tale of Two Cities (Conway)
7. Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
8. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Walker)

[rischka]

Loss Of Feeling/Jim Rippleis Robots - Andriyevsky

i've seen this and it's quite interesting. i enjoy films that show soviet view of america (or 'unnamed english speaking capitalist land')

i see greg's also seen it and liked it even more than i did that doesn't surprise me

Mazurka - Willi Forst

this is highly enjoyable too. in the end the plot twist was just a bit too much for me

peter ibbetson i also have mixed feelings about. it's a marvelous thing that doesn't totally work for me. it might be coop (tho he's beautiful ofc)

but i would recommend any and all of them. conway's 'a tale of two cities' marked the beginning of the association of one jacques tourneur and val lewton if i remember right. they were in charge of storming the bastille also i'll plug alice adams, an old favorite with a bad case of hollywood happy ending

la bandera by duvivier is a blast if you're liking the gabin french foreign legion genre. k i'll stop now

[flip]

The Good Fairy (William Wyler)

An Inn at Tokyo (Yasujiro Ozu)
Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford)
Waterfront Lady (Joseph Santley)
Aerograd (Alexander Dovzhenko)
The Informer (John Ford)
Symphony of Living (Frank Strayer)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
Burden of Life (Heinosuke Gosho)
Boys Will Be Boys (William Beaudine)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
What Price Crime? (Albert Herman)
Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen)

[liquidnature]

embarrassingly low amount of views for this year, but seen and liked:

Mazurka (Forst)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof / The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Sirk)
Gai dimanche! / Fun Sunday (Berr) (short)

[brian d]

in some order:
carnival in flanders (feyder)
sazen tange and the pot worth one million ryo (yamanaka)
happiness (medvedkin)
amphitryon (schünzel)
aerograd (dovzhenko)
rustic chivalry (rey)
janitzio (navarro)
la bandera (duvivier)
the 39 steps (hitchcock)
bride of frankenstein (whale)
hayseed romance (lamont)
les berceaux (kirsanoff)
listopad (vávra)
vibration of granada (val del omar)
the students of the rector (leitão de barros)

to see:
the youth of maxim (kozintsev/trauberg)
vidas rotas/broken lives (fernández ardavín) [if anyone can find it let me know please]

[kanafani]

Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)

Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford, 1935)
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Mikio Naruse, 1935)
Toni (Jean Renoir, 1935)
Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin, 1935)

The Girl in the Rumor (Mikio Naruse, 1935)
An Inn in Tokyo (Yasujirō Ozu, 1935)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks, 1935)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse, 1935)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
The Informer (John Ford, 1935)
The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, 1935)
The Scoundrel (Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, 1935)
The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
G Men (William Keighley, 1935)
Four Hours to Kill! (Mitchell Leisen, 1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
The Downfall of Osen (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1935)
Vibration of Granada (José Val del Omar, 1935)

[...]

Another tough year eh? Okay, let's see what we've got to start.

Happiness
The Good Fairy
The Wedding Night
Top Hat
Mark of the Vampire
Captain Blood
Steamboat 'Round the Bend
Magnificent Obsession (The better one)
The Big Road

Mutiny on the Bounty
The 39 Steps
The Bride of Frankenstein
Peter Ibbetson
The Informer
Mad Love
David Copperfield
Wife Be Like a Rose
Tit for Tat
Bonnie Scotland
Les Miserables
Mickey's Garden
Transatlantic Tunnel
Thicker Than Water

Loss of Feeling
Thanks a Million
One Run Elmer
The Raven
Symphony in Black
Ruggles of Red Gap
Anna Karenina
Dangerous
Roberta
The Black Room
The Whole Town's Talking
Crime and Punishment
She
Annie Oakley
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
China Sea
Reckless
The Crusades
Remember Last Night?
Last Days of Pompeii
Dante's Inferno
The Gilded Lily
Man on the Flying Trapeze

Balloonland
The Cookie Carnival
The Golden Touch
The Spinach Overture
The Devil is a Woman
Night at the Opera
Werewolf of London
Toni
Alice Adams
'G' Men
The Gay Deception
A Midsummer's Night Dream
A Tale of Two Cities
The Girl from Tenth Avenue
Broadway Melody of 1936

[sally]

sirk's girl from the marsh croft is in shares...

[rischka]

sirk's girl from the marsh croft is in shares...

thank you sally !

Magnificent Obsession (The better one)

ha i'll have to find this too

[mesnalty]

PSA that Sun Yu's The Big Road is 1935 on IMDb, though it's 1934 in other places.

[karl]

Merlusse was my #1 for 1938 - and IMDb still lists it as 1938.

Excellent year for the Japanese - as most years of the '30s were - with Naruse especially on fire with FIVE movies for the year. Whoa! Mizoguchi made two of his best less seen pics (Downfall of Osen and Poppy) as well as his worst film (Oyuki the Virgin). 20 for now:

An Inn in Tokyo

The 39 Steps
The Downfall of Osen
Sazen Tange and the Pot
Happiness
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
The Girl in the Rumor
Poppy (Mizoguchi)
Wife, Be Like a Rose!
Toni
The Informer
Cigalon (Pagnol)
The Three-Cornered Hat (Camerini)
I'll Give a Million
Suburban Cabaret (Hochbaum)
A Hero of Tokyo
Black Fury (Curtiz)
The Actress and the Poet
Okoto and Sasuke (Shimazu)
Burden of Life

To see: Chenal's Crime and Punishment, the two Duviviers, the Ophuls, the Dovzhenko and a coupla other Soviets, the Chinese movies.

[ofrene]

like only 2 movies in this year - Sylvia Scarlett, The 39 Steps - and so many movies to catch..

~ watchlist ~

A Night at the Opera
A Tale of Two Cities
An Inn in Tokyo
Burden of Life
Captain Blood
Carnival in Flanders
Happiness
Mad Love
Ruggles of Red Gap
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Steamboat Round the Bend
The Bride of Frankenstein (Is it necessary to watch Frankenstein before this?)
The Downfall of Osen
The Girl in the Rumor
The Wedding Night
Toni
Top Hat

etc...

[rischka]

Merlusse was my #1 for 1938 - and IMDb still lists it as 1938.

that's why it seemed so familiar. it's '35 most everywhere else. i will cross it off my watchlist

The Bride of Frankenstein (Is it necessary to watch Frankenstein before this?)

i don't think so and it's better than frankenstein

[mesnalty]

The Shelleys and Lord Byron show up at the beginning to summarize the first movie for you, even!

[Curtis, baby]

1. "Balloon Land" (Ub Iwerks, 1935)

The Informer (John Ford, 1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)
Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935)
"Rainbow Canyons" (James A. FitzPatrick, 1935)

[...]

PSA that Sun Yu's The Big Road is 1935 on IMDb, though it's 1934 in other places.

Good to know. I'll add it to my list.

Magnificent Obsession (The better one)
ha i'll have to find this too

To be fair, the Sirk has at least one scene that's better than anything in the Stahl, and a couple others almost as good, I just think the Stahl really embraces the rather bizarre excesses of the story better by leaning into them and having that shape the movie where Sirk tries to streamline it into something more stable than the material allows.

[pabs]

1. Justin de Marseille (Tourneur)

Crime and Punishment (Chenal)
Alice Adams (Stevens)
Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey)



Seen for this poll √

Annie Oakley √
Top Hat √
Remous/Whirlpool √
Ruggles of Red Gap √
The Informer √
Justin de Marseille √
Crime and Punishment √
The 39 Steps √
Alice Adams √


Hope to see:

An Inn in Tokyo

[pabs]

Speaking of Whale, who's seen Gods and Monsters (1998), a biopic of James Whale, played by Ian McKellen?

[sally]

i haven't seen the whale, but i whill.

i have however just seen 70 mins of sweaty deliciously dynamic men courtesy raoul walsh. anyone else seen under pressure?

one problem is that mclaglen is so eternally upbeat it takes a few seconds for it to sink in that he's undergoing actual peril rather than making flippant jokes...it's kameradschaft with way more masculine insouciance. and more naked sweaty torsos. yay.

i watched paul rotha's shipyard this morning and they complemented each other perfectly.

[karl]

Chenal's Crime and Punishment: Pickpocket aside, the best adaptation of this book I've seen.

Wyler's Good Fairy: I'm a sucker for Margaret Sullavan, but this is no Shop Around the Corner.