Monthly Film Bulletin 1936. All the films reviewed in 1936.
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- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elissa LandiGordon HarkerA former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court to find out who framed his father and why.
- DirectorVictor HanburyJohn StaffordStarsConrad NagelMarta LabarrLu Ann MeredithIt is the height of the fashionable season and the world-famous singer, Anita Stella, comes to Cannes on the Riviera, where she has been engaged to perform at a Charity Ball sponsored by society leaders. John Egan, a distinguished British diplomat, traveling incognito as Baron Dupont, for reasons of State, falls in love with Stella and resolves to make her acquaintance.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsRobb WiltonMuriel AkedClay KeyesAn anti-gambling supporter has a secret passion for the greyhound racetrack..
- DirectorRalph InceStarsHartley PowerMargaret LockwoodNora SwinburneA jury sitting on a case are led by their foreman through an imaginative survey of how the crime, a murder, was committed.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsConrad VeidtHelen VinsonNoah BeeryAn educated convict and prisoner leads a group of other inmates in a rebellion against the cruel authority figures before one of their own gets executed.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsPierre FresnayElissa LandiJohn LodgeVignerte, a preceptor at the court of a German principality, falls in love with Princess Aurore, whose first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Vignerte suspects the deceased's brother to be responsible for the death.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleArthur TracyJane WintonA chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom. Musical. Initial release: June 25, 1937
- DirectorOswald MitchellChallis SandersonStarsThe Act SuperbRaymond BairdSam Barton1936. Musical. This 1936 Musical film shows a rare chance to see some of the greatest acts from the Music Hall Years. Starring Sam Barton, Mabel Constanduros, Horace Goldin and many more.
- DirectorWallace OrtonStarsEddie PolaBetty AstellLeslie Perrins
- DirectorMichael HankinsonStarsDorothy BoydJohn ClementsGeorge MerrittA young crook meets a lady in the same business as himself, and finds she is more than a match for him.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsRobert RendelLucille LisleJames MasonA young businessman (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his jailbird father is determined to save him.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsHenry KendallNancy BurneBetty Astell
- DirectorKen G. HallStarsRoy ReneYvonne BanvardLorraine Smith
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsToby WingKenne DuncanWheeler OakmanAn out-of-work reporter wins a horse in a dice game. The horse turns out to be a champion runner. His girlfriend helps him get the horse into professional racing, but they get mixed up with gamblers.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsCharles StarrettAdrienne DoreKenne DuncanFor showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is assigned to look for those robbers. To have him work undercover, the Inspector's scheme is to have Bob supposedly kicked out of the Mounties.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsBarbara StanwyckPreston FosterMelvyn DouglasA romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRobert YoungA penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
- DirectorGordon WilesStarsWarner OlandRosina LawrenceCharles QuigleyThe heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsWilliam BoydJames EllisonWilliam FarnumWhen the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsEsther RalstonOnslow StevensSidney BlackmerA jetliner is forced to land in a remote region of Arizona under suspicious circumstances.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsEdmund LoweValerie HobsonWera EngelsBaron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey at the vast Dominey Hall, where strange things are afoot in pre-WW1 England.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsLily PonsHenry FondaEric BloreJonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To get his music published, Annette takes it to Paul and he is won over - by her voice and not the music. So he manages her career and she becomes a star as an opera singer everywhere she goes. Since Jonathan cannot sell anything he writes, he leaves Annette and that makes Annette sad as she wants only to be his wife.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsRichard DixFay WrayVictor KilianWhile hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.