Bernard Herrman didn't write the score for Rear Window so that's not a valid entry. Frankly, I'm having a hard time thinking of anything that anyone who did work on Rear Window ever did better.
Just to avoid letting the thread die out because of my dearth of knowledge regarding French cinema, I'll take a controversial cheap pathway out and say that Ants in the Pantry was a better film from that year. And yes, Ants in the Pantry is a Three Stooges short. I was one year off of being able to select either Day at the Races or A Night at the Opera and the only other funny crap I know of from the mid-'30's is the Stooges and Buster Keaton. So Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!
I thought you would play the Udo Kier card, Bill. He's so good as Dracula I couldn't think of anything that topped it, but then I haven't seen The Kingdom.