5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1936

It's time to hop in the Way Back Machine, kiddos, and set the flux capacitor to where ever our little telephones tell us to go - today for our "Siri Says" series Siri has gone and said the number 36, and so we're taking a look at The Movies of 1936. Specifically our favorites of that year. Let's set the scene - it's smack-dab in the middle of the Great Depression - the famous photograph "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange was taken in March. FDR is president, and the legendary Berlin Olympics - where Jesse Owens won gold - took place over the summer. But what of the movies? What of...

(dir. Charlie Chaplin)

-- released on February 25th 1936 --

(dir. Richard Boleslawski)

-- released on November 12th 1936 --

(dir. Gregory la Cava)

-- released on September 6th 1936 --

(dir. Frank Capra)

-- released on April 12th 1936 --

(dir. William Wyler)

-- released on September 23rd 1936 --

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Runners-up: Libeled Lady (dir. Jack Conway), Sabotage (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), Love on the Run (dir. WS Van Dyke), Desire (dir. Frank Borzage), Dracula's Daughter (dir. Lambert Hillyer),  After the Thin Man (dir. Van Dyke), Reefer Madness (dir. Gasnier)

Never seen: The Great Ziegfeld (dir. Robert Z. Leonard), Anything Goes (dir. Lewis Milestone), Fury (dir. Fritz Lang), The Devil Doll (dir. Tod Browning)