1934: Movies Sorted By Tier

Tags: 
  • Great

  • Babes In Toyland/ The March Of The Wooden Soldiers
  • The Black Cat
  • The Gay Divorcee
  • It Happened One Night
  • It’s A Gift
  • L’Atalante
  • Man Of Aran
  • The Thin Man
  • Very Good

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Treasure Island
  • Good

  • Judge Priest
  • The Merry Widow
  • Of Human Bondage
  • Guilty Pleasures

  • Average

  • The Barretts Of Wimpole Street
  • Fog Over Frisco
  • Dreck

  • Imitation Of Life
  • Midnight
  • The Big Stink

  • Unfortunately Haven’t Seen

  • Cleopatra
  • The Count Of Monte Cristo
  • Death Takes A Holiday
  • Little Man, What Now?
  • The Lost Patrol
  • Manhattan Melodrama
  • The Old-Fashioned Way
  • Our Daily Bread
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • Twentieth Century
  • Viva Villa!
  • You’re Telling Me

I recently watched Of Human Bondage and found it quite interesting. Bette Davis's lower-class English accent doesn't always convince, but otherwise her acting is remarkably good. Her reaction in the scene in which Leslie Howard tells her she has a terminal lung disease is totally real and very moving. Some fascinating directorial flourishes too.

I just felt uncomfortable watching it (I dislike Leslie Howard, it's a whole "Petrified Forest" in my youth thing) along with the smarmy story. Good points though, just not for me.

:?)