– 1933 film by Hamilton MacFadden about the assassination of an immigrant mayor of Chicago (Preston Foster), based on Anton Cermak, killed earlier in 1933 during the attempted murder of President-elect Roosevelt by a delusional anarchist The Emperor Jones – 1933 film by Dudley Murphy where, on a Caribbean island, an escaped U.S. convict (Paul Robeson) has become a self-styled Emperor, but is now hunted by his rebellious subjects, based on the play by Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill Willem van Oranje – 1934 Dutch film by Jan Teunissen, about William of Orange (Cor van der Lugt Melsert) leading the Dutch Revolt, may include the 1582 attempt, by pistol, by a Spanish merchant's assistant, or the 1584 assassination, again by pistol, by a French Catholic bounty hunter Cleopatra – 1934 film by Cecil B. DeMille, about the Egyptian queen (Claudette Colbert), includes the assassination of Julius Caesar (Warren William) in 44 BC. The Iron Duke – 1934 film by Victor Saville about the contrived execution of Marshal Ney for treason by French King Louis XVIII in 1815, during the White Terror which followed the Bourbon Restoration The Man Who Knew Too Much – 1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock about a British family on holiday in Switzerland who become involved in an assassination plot The Prisoner of Shark Island – 1936 film by John Ford about the imprisonment of Dr. Samuel Mudd, following the Lincoln assassination in 1865 The Plainsman – 1936 film by Cecil B. DeMille includes the murder of lawman Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper) in 1876 Fury – 1936 film by Fritz Lang in which an accused man (Spencer Tracy) persecutes those who nearly lynched him, inspired by the 1933 Brooke Hart lynching case where the California Governor colluded with the mob Secret Agent – 1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock about a British spy (John Gielgud) sent to assassinate a German agent They Won't Forget – 1937 film by Mervyn LeRoy about the lynching of a New York factory owner, based on the 1915 Leo Frank case, starring Claude Rains I, Claudius – 1937 film by Josef von Sternberg on political violence in ancient Rome, as observed by Emperor Claudius (Charles Laughton), involving the rumoured assassination of Emperor Tiberius by Emperor Caligula (Emlyn Williams), and the assassinations of Caligula and Caesonia – unfinished, but footage survives The Man in the Barn – 1937 dramatized documentary short by Jacques Tourneur