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1935 Movies, Best to Worst...

by J_Frank_Parnell • Created 1 year ago • Modified 2 days ago

1930 & earlier, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939...

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  • Top Hat (1935)

    1. Top Hat

    19351h 41mApproved93Metascore
    7.7 (22K)
    An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
    DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett Horton
    10/10*
  • Groucho Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and The Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935)

    2. A Night at the Opera

    19351h 36mApproved
    7.8 (36K)
    A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
    DirectorsSam WoodEdmund GouldingStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo Marx
    10/10
  • Margot Grahame and Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)

    3. The Informer

    19351h 31mApproved65Metascore
    7.3 (7.6K)
    In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston Foster
    10/10
  • Clark Gable and Mamo Clark in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

    4. Mutiny on the Bounty

    19352h 12mApproved87Metascore
    7.6 (26K)
    First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
    DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot Tone
    9/10
  • James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, and Margaret Lindsay in 'G' Men (1935)

    5. 'G' Men

    19351h 25mApproved
    7.1 (4.5K)
    James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
    DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayAnn Dvorak
    9/10
  • Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Irene Dunne in Roberta (1935)

    6. Roberta

    19351h 46mApproved66Metascore
    7.0 (3.8K)
    An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.
    DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsIrene DunneFred AstaireGinger Rogers
    9/10
  • Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore in The Little Colonel (1935)

    7. The Little Colonel

    19351h 21mPG
    7.0 (2K)
    In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.
    DirectorDavid ButlerStarsShirley TempleLionel BarrymoreEvelyn Venable
    9/10
  • Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn in Captain Blood (1935)

    8. Captain Blood

    19351h 59mApproved89Metascore
    7.7 (17K)
    After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandLionel Atwill
    9/10
  • Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

    9. Man on the Flying Trapeze

    19351h 6mApproved
    7.4 (1.4K)
    Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
    DirectorsClyde BruckmanW.C. FieldsStarsW.C. FieldsMary BrianKathleen Howard
    9/10
  • Shirley Temple in The Littlest Rebel (1935)

    10. The Littlest Rebel

    19351h 13mPG
    6.7 (1.8K)
    Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and "Bojangles" Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede.
    DirectorDavid ButlerStarsShirley TempleJohn BolesJack Holt
    9/10
  • Henry Wilcoxon and Loretta Young in The Crusades (1935)

    11. The Crusades

    19352h 5mApproved
    6.5 (1.4K)
    King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.
    DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsLoretta YoungHenry WilcoxonIan Keith
    9/10
  • Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

    12. Bride of Frankenstein

    19351h 15mApproved95Metascore
    7.8 (56K)
    Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin Clive
    8/10
  • Shirley Temple and John Boles in Curly Top (1935)

    13. Curly Top

    19351h 15mG
    6.8 (2.2K)
    Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
    DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJohn BolesRochelle Hudson
    8/10
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    14. The 39 Steps

    19351h 26mApproved93Metascore
    7.6 (64K)
    A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie Mannheim
    8/10
  • Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, and Marian Marsh in Crime and Punishment (1935)

    15. Crime and Punishment

    19351h 28mApproved
    6.9 (2.4K)
    A young man is haunted by the murder of a neighborhood pawn broker and hounded by the local police inspector who suspects that he is guilty.
    DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEdward ArnoldPeter LorreMarian Marsh
    8/10
  • Dante's Inferno (1935)

    16. Dante's Inferno

    19351h 29mApproved
    6.6 (982)
    Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. The pier collapses, leading to the inspector's suicide, injury to Pop McWade, trial for Carter, and Betty's leaving him. Carter starts over with an unsafe floating casino.
    DirectorHarry LachmanStarsSpencer TracyClaire TrevorHenry B. Walthall
    8/10
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Three Little Pigskins (1934)

    17. Uncivil Warriors

    193520mApprovedShort
    7.6 (815)
    Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
    8/10^
  • China Seas (1935)

    18. China Seas

    19351h 27mApproved
    6.9 (3.2K)
    When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.
    DirectorTay GarnettStarsClark GableJean HarlowWallace Beery
    7/10
  • Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, and Fred MacMurray in The Gilded Lily (1935)

    19. The Gilded Lily

    19351h 20mApproved
    6.7 (962)
    A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
    DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRay Milland
    7/10
  • Peter Lorre and Frances Drake in Mad Love (1935)

    20. Mad Love

    19351h 8mApproved
    7.2 (6.2K)
    In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
    DirectorKarl FreundStarsPeter LorreFrances DrakeColin Clive
    7/10
  • Clark Gable, Loretta Young, and Buck in Call of the Wild (1935)

    21. Call of the Wild

    19351h 35mApproved
    6.8 (2.8K)
    During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a stranded widow.
    DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClark GableLoretta YoungJack Oakie
    7/10
  • Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

    22. Ruggles of Red Gap

    19351h 30mApproved
    7.6 (4.7K)
    An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
    DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharles LaughtonMary BolandCharles Ruggles
    7/10
  • The Invisible Ray (1935)

    23. The Invisible Ray

    19351h 20mApproved
    6.5 (3.2K)
    A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
    DirectorLambert HillyerStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiFrances Drake
    6/10
  • Marlene Dietrich in The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

    24. The Devil Is a Woman

    19351h 19mApproved
    6.9 (4.2K)
    A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
    DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichLionel AtwillEdward Everett Horton
    6/10
  • Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, and Irene Ware in The Raven (1935)

    25. The Raven

    19351h 1mApproved44Metascore
    6.8 (7K)
    A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
    DirectorLew LandersStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiLester Matthews
    6/10

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