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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19351937

1936

Sound found its footing and the movies found their myths: monsters, musicals and screwball wit against the Depression.

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Modern Times

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

4.2

Modern Times

1936

Desire

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

3.5

Desire

1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

3.8

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Bullets or Ballots

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

3.3

Bullets or Ballots

1936

Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

3.7

Fury

1936

Camille

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

3.5

Camille

1936

Wife vs. Secretary

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

3.3

Wife vs. Secretary

1936

My Man Godfrey

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

3.8

My Man Godfrey

1936

César

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.

3.9

César

1936

After the Thin Man

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.

3.7

After the Thin Man

1936

Libeled Lady

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

3.6

Libeled Lady

1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

3.3

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936

Things to Come

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

3.3

Things to Come

1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

3.0

Dracula's Daughter

1936

Dodsworth

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

3.6

Dodsworth

1936

The Walking Dead

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

3.1

The Walking Dead

1936

Swing Time

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.

3.4

Swing Time

1936

Tarzan Escapes

White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.

3.4

Tarzan Escapes

1936

Hidden gems of 1936loved by the few who found them

The Story of a Cheat

Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family tragedy when he's deprived of supper (poisonous mushrooms!) for stealing...concluding that dishonesty pays. Through years of dabbling in crime and amusing adventures, two women appear and reappear in his life, a dazzling blonde jewel thief and a stunning brunette gambler. Finally, he meets the mysterious Charbonnier who had saved his life in World War I, leading to the surprising next phase in his career...

3.8

The Story of a Cheat

1936

La Belle Équipe

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.

3.7

La Belle Équipe

1936

The Only Son

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.

3.7

The Only Son

1936

The Lower Depths

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.

3.6

The Lower Depths

1936

Thru the Mirror

Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.

3.6

Thru the Mirror

1936

The Petrified Forest

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

3.6

The Petrified Forest

1936

Sisters of the Gion

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.

3.5

Sisters of the Gion

1936

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return and try to reclaim the profits from their successful cooperative.

3.5

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936

Our Relations

Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

3.5

Our Relations

1936

Follow the Fleet

When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

3.4

Follow the Fleet

1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

3.5

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936

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Anne of Windy Poplars

Juvenile fiction · High school principals

Anne of Windy Poplars

Lucy Maud Montgomery

1936

Anthem

Fiction · Individuality

Anthem

Ayn Rand

1936

Gone With the Wind

survival · slavery

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1936

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Succès · Psychologie appliquée

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

1936

The A.B.C. Murders

Fiction · Mystery

The A.B.C. Murders

Agatha Christie

1936

Terre des hommes

20th century · Aeronautics

Terre des hommes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1936

Swords of Mars

Dejah Thoris (Fictitious character) · Fiction

Swords of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1936

Murder in Mesopotamia

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Murder in Mesopotamia

Agatha Christie

1936

Cards on the Table

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Cards on the Table

Agatha Christie

1936

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Literature · Fiction

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

1936

Jamaica Inn

Fiction · Smugglers

Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier

1936

Как закалялась сталь

Fiction · History

Как закалялась сталь

Nikolay Ostrovsky

1936

A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2)

Police · Alan Grant (Fictitious character)

A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2)

Josephine Tey

1936

Knights of Range

Outlaws · Social life and customs

Knights of Range

Zane Grey

1936

Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)

Classic Literature · Fiction

Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)

Ayn Rand

1936

A prayer for my son

English fiction

A prayer for my son

Hugh Walpole

1936

Válka s mloky

Czech Science fiction · Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

Válka s mloky

Karel Čapek

1936

The Trail Driver

Large type books · Fiction, westerns

The Trail Driver

Zane Grey

1936

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