68% (1) The Dark Angel 106 min, PASSED, [Drama, Romance] [Sidney Franklin] [08 Sep 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
Actors: Fredric March, Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher, Merle Oberon
Writer: Lillian Hellman (screen play), Mordaunt Shairp (screen play), Claudine West (continuity), Guy Bolton (based on the play by)
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Plot: Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Rotten Tomatoes: Taped in Britain, The Dark Angel is an extra-long entry of PBS' Mystery series. Peter O'Toole heads a cast of dissipated, decadent 19th century aristocratic types. The script is based on a novel by Sheridan LeFanu, whose fascination with vampirism and "the undead" precipitated Bram Stoker by nearly thirty years. As in most gothic novels, the characters are motivated by greed, lust and the desire to hide Deep Dark Family Secrets from the outside world. The Dark Angel was originally presented in several weekly installments, here boiled down to 150 minutes for videocassette convenience. The film bears absolutely no relation to the 1935 Hollywood period drama of the same name. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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66% (1) So Red the Rose 82 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [King Vidor] [20 Dec 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Janet Beecher, Margaret Sullavan, Randolph Scott, Walter Connolly
Writer: Maxwell Anderson, Edwin Justus Mayer, Laurence Stallings, Stark Young (novel)
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Plot: SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's darkest days she is sustained by her love for a distant cousin, a Confederate officer, played by Randolph Scott.
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65% (1) Big City 80 min, PASSED, [Drama] [Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz] [03 Sep 1937]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher, Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy
Writer: Dore Schary (screen play), Hugo Butler (screen play), Norman Krasna (based on the original story by)
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Plot: To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue Anna (about to deliver their baby) from the ship.
Rotten Tomatoes: An honest cab driver fights against corruption.
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65% (1) Love Before Breakfast 70 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Walter Lang] [09 Mar 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Carole Lombard, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Preston Foster
Writer: Herbert Fields (screenplay), Faith Baldwin (from the novel: "Spinster Dinner" by)
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Plot: A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.
Rotten Tomatoes: Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which this airy comedy is based. Carole Lombard is a Park Avenue beauty squired by Preston S. Foster and Cesar Romero. Since neither gentleman is a prize catch, Lombard is fey and fickle throughout the film. That's all there is to Love Before Breakfast, which might have been completely forgotten had it not been for a famous 1930s-era painting in which a detailed poster for the film is the focus of attention. There's one iconoclastic alteration in the painting: Carole Lombard has been given a black eye.
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62% (1) Woman Against Woman 61 min, PASSED, [Drama, Romance] [Robert B. Sinclair] [24 Jun 1938]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher, Mary Astor, Virginia Bruce
Writer: Margaret Culkin Banning (from the story by: "Enemy Territory"), Edward Chodorov (screen play)
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Plot: Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their daughter Ellen. When Steve divorce's Cynthia, even his mother is on Cynthia's side. While pleading a case in Washington, Steve meets a woman named Maris and falls for her. Maris does not know if she is going to the altar or the chopping block, but they marry and come back to his hometown. Unfortunately, Maris is the outsider, and being a small town where Cynthia and Steve grew up, everyone is Cynthia's friend and not Maris. Cynthia will use every occasion, every trick, including Ellen, to try to ruin the life that Steve has with Maris.
Rotten Tomatoes: Herbert Marshall finds himself torn between two women: ex-wife Mary Astor and bride-to-be Virginia Bruce. After a while, Marshall's own opinions in the matter mean nothing. The ladies are so involved in their personal battle that they've lost sight of their common goal. Only when Marshall tells the two women to shut up and listen to him does peace descend upon the landscape. Based on a short story by Margaret Culkin Banning, Woman Against Woman is mighty MGM's idea of a modest "B" picture--featuring a stellar cast that at any other studio would be too way costly for an "A".
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