Eighty prize-winning films of the 1930s are discussed in detail, with complete cast and technical credits, background notes, etc. Movies covered include "Gone With The Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Garden of Allah", "The Hurricane", "San Francisco", "In Old Chicago", "Lost Horizon", "It Happened One Night", "Sweethearts", "The Broadway Melody", "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Tabu", "Wings", "Stagecoach", "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (both Fredric March and Spencer Tracy versions), "Cimarron", "Cleopatra", "Grand Hotel".
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By John Reid
Oct 15, 2009
"Award-Winning Films of the 1930s" Here, assembled in one book, are eighty prize-winning movies from Hollywood's Golden Age. Famous films like "Gone With The Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Captains Courageous" and Spencer Tracy's interpretation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (all four directed by Victor Fleming, whose entire career is profiled), plus three Frank Capra masterpieces ("Lost Horizon", "It Happened One Night" and "You Can't Take It With You"), jostle alongside such lesser-known triumphs as Henry Hathaway's "Spawn of the North" and "Lives of a Bengal Lancer", Mervyn LeRoy's "Anthony Adverse" and Leo McCarey's "The Awful Truth". And what about Frank Borzage's once critically acclaimed "Bad Girl" and his highly regarded "Farewell to Arms"? In short, a book with so many favorites, so fascinatingly detailed, it's impossible to resist.
