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Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Age for Love: Frank Lloyd: Billie Dove, Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson: Comedy: United Artists: Air Eagles: Phil Whitman: Lloyd Hughes, Norman Kerry, Shirley Grey
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 .
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]
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 ...
This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1930–1939, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios , a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast .
Although shot on a tight budget (Powell's own recollections varied between £4,500 and £8,000) [1] Rynox was exceptionally well received by contemporary critics. Writing in The Observer, noted critic C. A. Lejeune presciently remarked: "Powell's Rynox shows what a good movie brain can do... this is the sort of pressure under which a real talent is shot red-hot into the world."
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.
The Adventures of Juku The Dog (1931) [1] (Estonian: Kutsu-Juku seiklusi) [2] is the first Estonian experimental animated short film, written and directed by Voldemar Päts, produced by Aleksander Teppor , and with animation by the cartoonist Elmar Jaanimägi. [3] For the film about 5000 drawings were made.