Topper (1937)
Ghost Screwball Comedy
A deliriously frothy screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as two socialites killed in a crash who then haunt the car’s new owner. Several sequels followed.
Films of 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale
The first full-length animated film ever made and the beginning of the Disney tradition. A superlative effort, full of an adorable anthropomorphism where Disney instinctively grasps all the elements of the formula
Night Must Fall (1937)
Psycho-Thriller
Gripping psychological thriller in which a niece suspects that Robert Montgomery who has charmed her aunt may be a psychopathic killer
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937)
Man Gains Miraculous Powers
H.G. Wells scripted film with Roland Young as a man who suddenly finds he can perform miracles
Lost Horizon (1937)
Hidden Valley Paradise/The Secret of Longevity
Hugely successful and probably overrated classic from Frank Capra about the discovery of a lost valley in the Himalayas that offers the secret of immortality
Dick Tracy (1937)
Serial/Comic-Book Detective
This is a standout serial based on the famous comic-book detective, featuring some of the best of all serial cliffhangers and action set-pieces, not to mention wonderfully creative super-science inventions