It Happened One Night – Trailer The original Romantic Comedy featuring Hollywood heart throb Clark Gable and the equally charming Claudette Colbert which swept the boards at the 1934 Oscars not onlt taking best picture, but also Best Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay. Made for a comparatively palrty $325,000 this remains one of the most…
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…
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