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National Board Of Review Awards 1935
7th National Board of Review Awards December 16, 1935 The 7th National Board of Review Awards were announced on 16 December 1935. Best American Films #'' The Informer'' #'' Alice Adams'' #''Anna Karenina'' #''David Copperfield'' #'' The Gilded Lily'' #''Les Misérables'' #'' The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' #''Mutiny on the Bounty'' #''Ruggles of Red Gap'' #'' Who Killed Cock Robin?'' Top Foreign Films #''Chapayev'' #''Crime and Punishment'' #'' Le Dernier Milliardaire'' #'' The Man Who Knew Too Much'' #''Maria Chapdelaine'' #''La Maternelle'' #''The New Gulliver'' #''Peasants'' #'' Thunder in the East'' #''The Youth of Maxim'' Winners *Best American Film: '' The Informer'' *Best Foreign Film: ''Chapayev'', U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ... External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informer Poster
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Crime And Punishment (1935 French Film)
''Crime and Punishment'' (French: ''Crime et châtiment'') is a 1935 French crime drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and produced by Michel Kagansky starring Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar and Madeleine Ozeray. It is an adaptation of the 1866 novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The same year a separate American film adaptation was made featuring Peter Lorre. The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. Chenal rejected Bazin's original designs as too realistic and historically faithful, as he wished to create a more expressionist ambience for the film. Critical reception Writing for ''The Spectator'' in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a moderately good review, praising the direction and the camerawork particularly during the murder scene, the fidelity of the film to the text upon which it was based, and the acting of Pierre Blanchar in portraying Raskolnikov. Of Harry Bauer's portrayal of Porphyrius, Greene described the acting as "a lovely performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Board Of Review Awards
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is a non-profit organization of New York City area film enthusiasts. Its awards, which are announced in early December, are considered an early harbinger of the film awards season that culminates in the Academy Awards. Origins The organization which is now a private organization of film enthusiasts has its roots in 1909 when Charles Sprague Smith and others formed the New York Board of Motion Picture Censorship to make recommendations to the Mayor's office concerning controversial films. It quickly became known as the National Board of Motion Picture Censorship. In an effort to avoid government censorship of films, the National Board became the unofficial clearinghouse for new movies. The Board's stated purpose was to endorse films of merit and champion the new "art of the people", which was transforming America's cultural life. In March 1916 the Board changed its name to the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures to avoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Youth Of Maxim
''The Youth of Maxim'' (russian: Юность Максима) is a 1935 Soviet historical drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, the first part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker named Maxim. Plot In 1910, a revolutionary underground group spreads leaflets featuring anti-tsarist slogans. Maksim, a young, happy-go-lucky worker and his comrades help the teacher Natasha, who is engaged in illegal activities in the factory, hide from the police. Maksim's friend Andrei and another worker lose their lives. Their funeral turns into a huge demonstration which is suppressed by the police. Numerous people are arrested, among them Maksim, who subsequently becomes a Social Democratic activist. Cast * Boris Chirkov - Maksim * Valentina Kibardina - Natasha * Mikhail Tarkhanov - Polivanov * Stepan Kayukov Stepan Yakovlevich Kayukov (russian: Степан Яковлевич Каюков; 1 August 1898 – 22 January 1960) was a Soviet and Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder In The East (1934 Film)
''The Battle'' (also known as ''Thunder in the East'') is a 1934 Franco–British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a 1909 French novel by Claude Farrère entitled ''La bataille''. Plot In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife, played by Merle Oberon, to seduce a British attaché in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him. Cast * Charles Boyer as Marquis Yorisaka * Merle Oberon as Marquise Yorisaka * John Loder as Fergan * Betty Stockfeld as Betty Hockley * Valéry Inkijinoff as Hirata * Miles Mander Miles Mander (born Lionel Henry Mander; 14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), was an English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist. He was sometimes credited as Luther Mile ... as Feize * Henri Fabert a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peasants (1934 Film)
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants might hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold. In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. As early as in 13th-century Germany, the concept of "peasant" could imply "rustic" as well as "robber", as the English term villain/villein. In 21st-century English, the word "peasant" can mean "an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person". The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to 'native', incorporating all its conde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Gulliver
''The New Gulliver'' (russian: Новый Гулливер, ''Novyy Gullivyer'') is a Soviet stop motion-animated cartoon, and the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film (it begins and ends with short live-action sequences). The film was released in 1935 to widespread acclaim and earned director Aleksandr Ptushko a special prize at the International Cinema Festival in Milan. The part of Gulliver was played by Vladimir Konstantinov, who was born in 1920 and died in 1944 near Tallinn in the Second World War. This was his first and only film role. Plot The story, a Communist re-telling of the 1726 novel ''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, is about a young boy who dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation. The pioneer Petya Konstantinov (Vladimir Konstantinov), as an award for the best young OSVOD member of Artek, receives his favo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Maternelle (film)
''La Maternelle'' (International title: ''Children of Montmartre'') is a 1933 French film directed and written by Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein. It was adapted from Léon Frapié's Prix Goncourt winning novel ''La Maternelle'' (1904). In 1935, it was ranked as the 6th best foreign film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and has received a 7.3 ranking (out of 10) by 71 reviewers at the Internet Movie Database. Plot Rose, a girl from a well off family faces a series of tragic events that leaves her penniless and without a home. She is hired as an attendant at a day-care center in Paris with 150 poor children. She finds herself tenderly caring for them and soon they become very fond of her. One young girl named Marie, who is the abandoned daughter of a prostitute, becomes so attached to Rose that she becomes jealous when anyone else steals Rose's attention. Marie even tries to kill herself when she learns of Rose's plans to marry Dr. Libois, the school's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Chapdelaine (1934 Film)
''Maria Chapdelaine'' is a 1934 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Madeleine Renaud, Jean Gabin and Jean-Pierre Aumont. It is an adaptation of the 1913 novel of the same title by Louis Hémon set in rural Quebec about a young woman who becomes involved with a farmer, trapper and an immigrant drifter from Paris. The story was adapted again for a 1950 film directed by Marc Allégret. Production The film's sets were designed by art director Jacques Krauss. Location shooting took place in Canada around Lake Mistassini. Some post-production work was also done at the Neuilly Studios in Paris. Reception The film was a box office success on its release, ending a run of financial failures for Duvivier. It was awarded the French Grand Prix, and was screened at the Venice Film Festival where it was given a Special Mention. A review in ''The New York Times'' praised it as "stirring, full-bodied and tremulously beautiful".McCann p.72 Cast * Madeleine Renaud as Maria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 Film)
''The Man Who Knew Too Much'' is a 1934 British film noir political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Leslie Banks and Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period. The film is Hitchcock's first film using this title and was followed later with his own 1956 film using the same name featuring a significantly different plot and script with some modifications. The second film featured James Stewart and Doris Day, and was made for Paramount Pictures. The two films are very similar in tone. In the book-length interview ''Hitchcock/Truffaut'' (1967), in response to filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied, "Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional." However, it has been said this statement cannot be taken at face value. The 1934 film h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Billionaire
''The Last Billionaire'' (French: ''Le dernier milliardaire'') is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr. The film is based on a fictional small European kingdom which is on the verge of going broke. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Lucien Carré. It was the last film Clair made in France until 1947, as he moved to Britain and then the United States. Cast * Max Dearly as Banco * Marthe Mellot as Queen of Casinario * Renée Saint-Cyr as Princess Isabelle * Sinoël as Prime Minister * Charles Redgie as Crown Prince Nicolas * Marcel Carpentier as Detective Brown * Paul Ollivier as Chamberlain * Raymond Cordy as Valet * José Noguero as Bandleader * Raymond Aimos as Le mendiant * Christian Argentin as Le ministre des finances * Jean Aymé Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapayev (film)
''Chapaev'' (russian: link=no, Чапаев, ) is a 1934 Soviet war film, directed by the Vasilyev brothers for Lenfilm. The film is a heavily fictionalised biography of Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a Red Army notable commander of the Russian Civil War. It is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev. Plot The film centers around a Red Army division commanded by Vasily Chapayev in their fight against White Army troops commanded by Colonel Borodzin. A Commissar named Furmanov is delegated to the division from Moscow, and although he initially does not get along with Chapayev, he proves his worth by resolving a conflict that arises when Chapayev's men steal from local peasants and the two become good friends. With the help of Chapayev's adjutant Petka and the machine gunner Anka (who develop a love interest over the course of the film), and with intelligence provided by Borodzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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