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The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
October 12, 1932 (Wednesday) German Chancellor Franz von Papen gave a speech in Munich about a proposed new constitution that would place supreme authority in the hands of the cabinet and not the Reichstag. "The government must have the power, not parliament", von Papen said.
Bird of Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic adventure drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea. Based on the 1912 play of the same name by Richard Walton Tully, it was released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards. Major awards:
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The film opens with the elation after the February Revolution and the establishment of the Provisional Government, depicting the throwing down of the Tsar's monument. It moves quickly to point out it's the "same old story" of war and hunger under the Provisional Government, however. The buildup to the October Revolution is dramatized with intertitl...
Nikolai Popov — Alexander KerenskyVasili Nikandrov — Vladimir LeninLyaschenko — Aleksandr KonovalovChibisov — Matvey SkobelevOctober was one of two films commissioned by the Soviet government to honour the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution (the other was Vsevolod Pudovkin's The End of St. Petersburg). Eisenstein was chosen to head the project due to the international success he had achieved with Battleship Potemkin (1925). Nikolai Podvoisky, one of the troika w...
Eisenstein used the film to further develop his theories of film structure, using a concept he described as "intellectual montage", the editing together of shots of apparently unconnected objects in order to create and encourage intellectual comparisons between them. One of the film's most celebrated examples of this technique is a baroque image of...
The original 1928 score was written by composer Edmund Meisel. In 1966, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote a new soundtrack for the film, which later appeared as a tone poem 'October' Op.131 where Shostakovich's famous 'Partisan' theme makes an appearance.Sound effects (such as the shouting of crowds, gunshots, glasses breaking) were added to the film after...
The film was not as successful or influential in the Soviet Union as Battleship Potemkin. Among the first spectators of the picture were some who found the film stilted and artificial. Vladimir Mayakovskysaid the following about Nikandrov's acting who embodied the character of Lenin in the film: Eisenstein's montage experiments met with official di...
October: Ten Days That Shook the World at IMDbOctober: Ten Days That Shook the World is available for free viewing and download at the Internet ArchiveOctober: Ten Days That Shook the World at AllMovieThe Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore. [2][3] Set in interwar Wales ...
85 or 92-93 mins | Drama | 12 October 1932. Cast: Frederic Howard, Ben Hendricks, William Gargan [ More ] Director: Lewis Milestone. Cinematographer: Oliver Marsh. Editor: W. Duncan Mansfield. Production Designer: Richard Day. Production Company: Feature Productions, Inc. HISTORY. DETAILS. CREDITS. SYNOPSIS. GENRE. Print Details. Full page view.
