This supremely mounted silent film has held is magic and power extremely well due to the simplicity of the story and the exquisite visual style of F.W. Murnau, the genius German-born director whose life was cut short in an accident.
Oscar Movies: Smash Up: The Story of a Woman
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In one of her best-known “fallen women” roles, Susan Hayward plays Angelica Evans, a popular night-club singer who abruptly ends her career to marry a struggling young songwriter, only to sink into a life of drinking and despair when his work takes precedence over their marriage.
Oscar Movies: Royal Family of Broadway, The (1931)–All-Star Ensemble
July 23, 2011 by
The zany plot outlines the wild fortunes of the Cavendishes, i.e. the Barrymores, Broadway’s First Family. The hectic homelife of the incurably theatrical family provides riotous fun and good roles for most of the cast, particularly Fredric March.
Oscar Movies: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
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Oscar Nominations: 1
Picture (produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr.)
Oscar Movies: Ruling Class, The (1972)
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Adapted by Peter Barnes from his own satirical play, Peter Medak’s “The Ruling Class” depicts the delusions of Jack (Peter O’Toole), the fourteenth Earl of Gurney, after the collapse of the thirteenth Earl (Harry Andrews), while practicing one of the fetishes he acquired during a long, rigorous service to his country
