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30 April 1935 (USA) morePlot:
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, and his ghost must wander restlessly unless someone sheds a tear for him. | add synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. moreUser Comments:
1936 Oscar for Best Original Story???? moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Noel Coward | ... | Anthony Mallare |
| Julie Haydon | ... | Cora Moore |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Paul Decker |
| Martha Sleeper | ... | Julia Vivian |
| Ernest Cossart | ... | Jimmy Clay |
| Alexander Woollcott | ... | Vanderveer Veyden |
| Everley Gregg | ... | Mildred Langwiter |
| Rosita Moreno | ... | Carlotta |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | ... | Maurice Stern |
| Richard Bond | ... | Howard Gillette |
| Helen Strickland | ... | Mrs. Rolinson |
| Lionel Stander | ... | Rothenstien |
| Frank Conlan | ... | Massey |
| O.Z. Whitehead | ... | Calhoun |
| Raymond Bramley | ... | Felix Abrams |
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until many years afterward. moreQuotes:
Cora Moore: [upon reading about Mallare's plane crash] I've just learned that there IS a God! moreFAQ
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It's very hard to believe that this movie won an Oscar at all.
I saw this unbelievable movie at last years San Francisco Film Noir Festival 4 in '06. The print was in decent shape.
In the opening credits an abstract image is shown with the Three Furies looking more like they are falling down rather than flying.
Coward acts like Heston in Ben Hur. Almost like the silent actors did when they had to emote their feelings without voices.The acting was so atrocious that a lot of people in the theatre watching it were laughing (including myself) outright at the badness of it.
But this was made during The Depression so there is the notion that there is hope for us all. That the bad stuff that we're in is only temporary.
However, just because a movie has won an Oscar as well as being classified as Film Noir; does not guarantee that the movie is supposed to be good.
I enjoyed seeing Lionel Stander who would later get blacklisted, show up in one of the best westerns "Once Upon A TIme in The West", then moved onto "Hart to Hart".