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Thanks a Million (1935) on 15 november 1935
, 1h27Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Patsy Kelly, Raymond Walburn, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Andrew Tombes
Rating62%
Stranded in a small town in a downpour, the manager of a traveling musical show (Fred Allen) convinces the handlers of a boring long-winded local judge running for governor (Raymond Walburn) to hire his group to attract people to the politician's rallies. When the show's crooner, Eric Land (Dick Powell), upstages the Judge, he's fired, but on a return visit he saves the day by standing in for the Judge, who is too drunk to speak. Impressed by his poise, the party's bosses ask Eric to take over as candidate, and the singer, knowing he has no chance to win, agrees for the exposure and the radio airtime in which he can showcase his singing. Soon, though, his girlfriend Sally (Ann Dvorak) becomes annoyed at the amount of time Eric is spending with the wife of one of the bosses, and she leaves when she thinks he has lied to her. When the bosses ask Eric to agree to patronage appointments that will lead to easy graft for all of them, he exposes them on the radio, telling the voters that voting for him would be a huge mistake and urging them to vote for his opponent. At the end Eric is, of course, elected governor, and re-united with Sally.
I Found Stella Parish (1935) on 16 november 1935
, 1h25Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Errol Flynn, Sybil Jason, Barton MacLane
Rating66%
In London, Stella Parish (Kay Francis) has her greatest stage triumph in a play produced and directed by Stephen Norman (Paul Lukas). However, her happiness is short-lived. She finds a man from her past in her dressing room. Determined not to submit to blackmail, she books passage back to America on an ocean liner, traveling in disguise with her young daughter Gloria (Sybil Jason) and her best friend and confidante Nana (Jessie Ralph).
Annie Oakley (1935) on 15 november 1935
, 1h30Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton, Andy Clyde
Rating65%
In late 1800s Ohio, a young woman from the backwoods, Annie Oakley (Stanwyck) delivers six dozen quail she has shot to the owner of the general store. He sends them to the MacIvor hotel in Cincinnati, where the mayor is holding a large banquet in honor of Toby Walker (Foster), the "greatest shot in the whole world". Walker is particular about what he eats–the hotel owner (James MacIvor, played by Andy Clyde) bought Oakley's quail because she shoots the quail cleanly through the head, leaving no buckshot elsewhere.
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935) on 14 november 1935
, 1h11Directed by Stephen Roberts
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, Frank Reicher
Rating63%
After World War I, in Monte Carlo a girl lures back the Russian one-time aristocrat who broke the bank, and makes him poor; however, she falls in love with him and follows him.
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) on 15 november 1935
, 1h24Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Pert Kelton, Wallace Ford, Brian Donlevy
Rating66%
A Night at the Opera (1935) on 15 november 1935
, 1h36Directed by Lesley Selander, Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont
Rating77%
Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho), business manager for the wealthy Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont), has stood her up and is having dinner with another woman in the very same restaurant. When they find each other at opposite tables, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool, and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb (Sig Ruman), director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. Driftwood has arranged for Mrs. Claypool to invest $200,000 in the opera company, allowing Gottlieb to engage Rodolfo Lassparri, (Walter Woolf King), the "greatest tenor since Caruso".