61. The Life of Emile Zola
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Louis Calhern
Plot: The biography of French writer Emile Zola who was a muckraker in the 1860's about anti-semitism.
62. The Petrified Forest
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart, Charley Grapewin, Joe Sawyer
Plot: A man walks into a gas station and falls in love with a waitress working there, but only after they are held up and robbed.
63. Fury
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan
Plot: When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
64. A Tale of Two Cities
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Conway
Actors: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka
Plot: An epic version of Charles Dickens' classic tale set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. A lawyer takes on the case of a man accused of spying and finds himself falling in love with his fiancee. Yet in order to gain her heart, he will have to save the man she loves from the guillotine.
65. The Roaring Twenties
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh
Plot: Three WWI Army buddies get mixed up with the mob in peacetime.
66. Midnight
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie
67. Jezebel
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter
Plot: Prior to the Civil War a high-spirited Southern belle flouts convention
and behaves in an unlady-like manner. As a result she drives away the man
she loves. However, the war comes along, the young man gets yellow fever
and she redeems herself by risking her life to nurse him.
68. Boys Town
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Taurog
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris
Plot: Father Flanagan starts "Boys Town" after hearing a convicts story. Hoping
to help wayward boys, one such charge is Whitey Marsh. The boy attempts
numerous escapes, but returns - but he wants nothing more than to join his
brother Joe in a local gang.
69. Some Like It Hot
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Archainbaud
Actors: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Una Merkel, Gene Krupa, Rufe Davis, Bernard Nedell
70. David Copperfield
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Lionel Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone
