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Papillon (2017) – biographical drama film telling the story of French convict Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was imprisoned in 1933 in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of another convict, counterfeiter Louis Dega [131]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1933: This Acting Business: John Daumery: Hugh Williams, Wendy Barrie, Donald Calthrop: Comedy [1]Adventures of Don Quixote: G. W. Pabst: Feodor Chaliapin, George Robey, Oscar Asche
I Was a Spy is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Victor Saville and produced by Michael Balcon. It stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert , Herbert Marshall , and Conrad Veidt . Based on the 1932 memoir I Was a Spy by Marthe Cnockaert , the film is about her experiences as a Belgian woman who nursed German soldiers during World War ...
Peg o' My Heart is a 1933 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It starred Marion Davies as a poor Irish girl, Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell, who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions.
Ever in My Heart is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, and Ralph Bellamy. [1] It portrays the tragic consequences of the virulent propaganda that spread false stories of atrocities and stigmatized anything German during the Great War .
The film premiered in October at the Roxy Theater in New York City on October 15, 1932, [3] then released in Los Angeles, [4] and a few other cities in November 1932. [5] [6] A limited national release came in 1933. Originally running 73 minutes, the studio edited 14 minutes from the picture before release.
Silver Dollar is a 1932 American pre-Code biographical film starring Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels and Aline MacMahon.Based on David Karsner's biography of the same name, it tells the story of the rise and fall of Horace Tabor (renamed Yates Martin), a silver tycoon in 19th century Colorado.
In March 1933, the Hays Office recommended several cuts be made before the film was released, with the central rape scene being of utmost concern. [1] In the original cut (and in Faulkner's novel), Temple's rape occurs in a corn crib , and she is at one point penetrated with a corn cob during the assault; the sequence also featured shots in ...