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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 ...
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
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]
The following is an overview of 1931 in film, including significant events, ... April 14 - Kenneth Cope, English actor and scriptwriter (died 2024) April 17 ...
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.
City of Song, also known as Farewell to Love, is a 1931 British/German romance film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Betty Stockfeld and Hugh Wakefield. [1] It was shot at Wembley Studios. [2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Oscar Friedrich Werndorff and J. Elder Wills.
Charlie Chan Carries On is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Warner Oland, John Garrick and Marguerite Churchill.It is the first appearance of Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Part of the long-running Charlie Chan series, it was based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Earl Derr Biggers.
In the Employ of the Secret Service (German: Im Geheimdienst) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Brigitte Helm, Willy Fritsch, and Oskar Homolka. [1] It concerns espionage between Germany and Russia during the First World War .