THE GOLDEN AGE

THE PUBLIC ENEMY - 1931

• a 1931 American all-talking pre-code crime film produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
• The film was directed by William A. Wellman & stars James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods & Joan Blondell.
• The film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America.
• The supporting players include Beryl Mercer, Donald Cook, and Mae Clarke.
• Many of the characters in the film were based on actual people.

AWARDS

• Nominated Oscar Best Writing - Original Story John Bright & Kubec Glasmon
• Won National Film Registry - 1998

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - AUGUST 24, 1930

• 1930 American war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name.
• It was directed by Lewis Milestone, & stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy & Ben Alexander.
• considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I
• follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of WW1 by their jingoistic teacher.
• The film isn't about heroism but about drudgery & futility & the gulf between the concept of war & the actuality.

AWARDS

• Won Oscar Best Picture Best Director Lewis Milestone
• Won Kinema Junpo Award Best Foreign Language Film - Sound Lewis Milestone
• Won NBR Award - 1930 Top Ten Films

SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS - 1937

• An animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
• A beautiful girl, Snow White, goes to the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen.
• The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land"
• The dwarfs rush home to chase the witch away, but they are too late to save Snow White from the poisoned apple.
• a prince, who had previously met & fallen in love with Snow White, learns of her eternal sleep & visits her coffin.

AWARDS

• 1938 Nominated Oscar - Best Music
• 2001 Won Video Premiere Award - Best Overall New Extra Features
• 1977 Nominated Grammy - Best Recording for Children
• 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Won Special Award