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The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic crime drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes.The screenplay, based on a 1929 play of the same name by Martin Flavin, was written by Fred Niblo Jr. and Seton I. Miller, who were nominated for Best Adaptation at the 4th Academy Awards but the award went to Howard Estabrook for Cimarron.
Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film. [2] October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper company La Presse. [3]
It received a then-record seven nominations, and was the first film to win more than two awards. The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, [ 11 ] at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel [ 11 ] in Los Angeles, California .
Mountains on Fire (German: Berge in Flammen) is a 1931 German war film directed by Karl Hartl and Luis Trenker and starring Trenker, Lissy Arna and Luigi Serventi. The film was developed from Luis Trenker's novel of the same title, partly based on his own experiences. Separate French and English-language productions were also made.
Merely Mary Ann a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
He also scrapped plans to shoot the film in colour and changed to black and white. [4] The film's script was rewritten and the title was changed to Tabu: A Story of the South Seas to avoid potential legal issues with Colorart. [2] [4] This was the start of a poor working relationship between Flaherty and Murnau. Flaherty disliked the new script ...
Melati van Agam was released in two parts, [1] with the first premiering on 16 December 1931. Kwee Tek Hoay, writing for Panorama magazine, ridiculed the film's "illogical" plot and wrote that "even the stupidest villager could spot the flaws"; [a] he considered Norma's actions more befitting a prostitute than an average woman. [6]