Most Popular Feature Films Released In 1936
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Modern Times
(1936) The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Dir: Charlie Chaplin With: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman Comedy | Drama | Romance |
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1936) Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers. Dir: Frank Capra With: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft Comedy | Romance |
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These Three
(1936) This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme... Dir: William Wyler With: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea Drama | Romance United States-PASSED 93 mins. |
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Things to Come
(1936) A story of 100 years: a decades-long second world war leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and tries space travel. Dir: William Cameron Menzies With: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson Sci-Fi 100 mins. |
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My Man Godfrey
(1936) A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler...but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Dir: Gregory La Cava With: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady Romance | Comedy |
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Come and Get It
(1936) An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter. Dir: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson With: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer Drama United States-PASSED 99 mins. |
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Fury
(1936) When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder. Dir: Fritz Lang With: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller United States-PASSED |
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Camille
(1936) A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. Dir: George Cukor With: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore Drama | Romance |
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Sabotage
(1936) A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock With: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester Mystery | Thriller |
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Swing Time
(1936) A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer. Dir: George Stevens With: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore Comedy | Musical | Romance |










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