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Cavalcade beat off some stiff competition (including the probably better known A Farewell to Arms) to win the Oscar for Best picture in 1933. Almost beyond its time it looks at the upper middle class life from the view point of of well-to-do London residents Jane and Robert Marryot. Almost documentary in style it covers…
Trailer for the 1932 Oscar Winning Grand Hotel Quick Plot Set in Berlin’s most exclusive hotel, where in the words of disfigured WWI war vereren Dr. Otternschlag “People come, people go; nothing ever happens” – words he also ends the film with. However as the film unfolds this is shown not to be true as broke…
The Classic Land Rush Scene Quick Plot Based on the lives of a newspaper editor who joins in the Oklahoma land rush by choosing to settle in a boom town with his wife at the end of the nineteenth century. Eventually he leaves his wife to pursue his need for adventure in the the then wild west….
All Quiet on the Western Front Original Trailer Quick Plot The first truely Classic War film based on the novel by German writer Erich Maria Remarque. The plot revolves around a group of German schoolboys, who sign up just as WWI is beginning and the story is told through their eyes. For the first time…
Broadway Melody won the 2nd ever Oscar for Best Picture in 1928-29 and unlike its Predecessor “Wings” this one had a sound (fortunate considering its a Musical) and Technocolour version. Sadly the colour version appears to have been lost however the B&W one is available and in quite good quality considering its age. Classic Clip…
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