Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Year: 1937
Starring: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard
Director: William Dieterle
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Is It Any Good?: It's surprising! When the film began it had me worried. It seemed like...
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Year: 1936
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Runtime: 2 hrs 56 mins
Is It Any Good?: It’s tedious. While Powell is electric as Ziegfeld even his zippy, charismatic portrayal doesn’t...
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Year: 1935
Starring: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone
Director: Frank Lloyd
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Is It Any Good?: It’s pretty good. It’s overly long and that hurts it. And while 132...
Title: It Happened One Night
Year: 1934
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Director: Frank Capra
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Is It Any Good?: It is a true classic and a film that if we were without America's truly...
Title: Cavalcade
Year: 1933
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor
Director: Frank Lloyd
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Is It Any Good?: Drab, it’s just drab. A film like this which was pegged as “The Picture of the...
Title: Grand Hotel
Year: 1932
Starring: John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Greta Grabo
Director: Edmund Goulding
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Is It Any Good?: Not too shabby. While some of the dialogue seems overly melodramatic, and it looses some steam...
