Dynamite (1929)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | dynamite |
| Original title | Dynamite |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cecil B. DeMille |
| script |
Jeanie Macpherson , John Howard Lawson , Gladys Unger |
| production | Cecil B. DeMille |
| music |
William Axt , Arthur Lange |
| camera | J. Peverell Marley |
| cut | Anne Bauchens |
| occupation | |
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Dynamite is a 1929 American drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille .
action
Miner Hagon Derk has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. His only concern is his sister Katie, who is now left alone. Cynthia Crothers, on the other hand, has to fulfill the will of her grandfather and marry before she turns 23 in order to get her millionaire inheritance. She loves Roger Towne, who is married to Marcia. Marcia, who is having an affair with the miner Marco, only wants to divorce if she pays Roger $ 100,000.
Hagon, who wants to take care of Katie, offers his body for $ 10,000 in a newspaper ad. Cynthia reads the ad and visits Hagon. She offers him the money if he marries her. Hagon accepts. Minutes before his execution, the real killer is found. He is fatally injured in a shootout, but first confesses to the murder for which Hagon was convicted. Hagon is released. When Hagon visits Cynthia, she is upset. At a party, Hagon overhears his wife and learns about the deal she has made with Marcia. He informs Roger that Marcia has a check for $ 25,000 as a deposit. Roger tears up the check and wants to part with Cynthia if she should pay for him. Hagon, too, renounces the promised money.
Cynthia's lawyers see no other option than to have to live with Hagon as a married couple in order to get her money. So Cynthia moves to the mining town. Hagon refuses to move into Cynthia's apartment, so she has no choice but to eke out a life as a housewife. Cynthia's experience in housework is limited, Katie secretly helps her. When Cynthia tells Hagon about Katie's help, Hagon is touched by her first honorable deed. The next morning, when Cynthia witnessed a traffic accident in which a boy was seriously injured, she learned that the boy had to be taken to a brain specialist as soon as possible. Cynthia fetches her eye-catching car, which Hagons instructed to hide in an arbor to avoid attracting attention, and brings the brain specialist to town. The doctor can save the boy.
Hagon comes back from work and sees the open door of the arbor. He also learns that Cynthia withdrew 2,000 from the bank she used to pay the doctor, which Hagon doesn't know. He thinks she has had enough of being a housewife and has returned to Roger. Hagon confronts Cynthia, but feels discouraged and calls Roger. Only the boy's mother tells Hagon about the events and Cynthia's good deed.
Roger visits Cynthia and also wants to speak to Hagon before leaving. Cynthia and Roger go to the mine to find him. The tunnel behind them collapses, the three of them are trapped in a small cave that contains too little air to wait for rescue from outside. You have to blow up a wall with a stick of dynamite. Who of the two men should do that, determines the lot. A coin toss tells Roger to knock the stick of dynamite into the wall and set it on fire. But Hagon snatches the hammer out of Roger's hand. Cynthia whispers something in Roger's ear, and Roger tells Hagon that Cynthia has something to say to him. Hagon goes to Cynthia, who admits that she loves him. Since the two are no longer in the way, Roger can hit the dynamite into the wall and cause it to explode, killing him himself.
criticism
Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times described the film as an astonishing mixture: artificiality vies with realism and comedy follows grim melodrama. The film could hold the audience's interest for most of the time, but towards the end it would become a bizarre insignificance.
Awards
At the second Academy Awards in 1930 , Mitchell Leisen , later a director himself, was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best production design.
background
The world premiere took place on December 13, 1929. The film opened in Germany and Czechoslovakia in autumn 1930 and in Austria in May 1931.
For Cecil B. DeMille, the film was the first complete sound film and the first of three films that he shot for the MGM studio .
Supporting roles include Leslie Fenton and Randolph Scott . The set was not only provided by the Oscar-nominated Mitchell Leisen, who also acted as assistant director, Cedric Gibbons also worked on this film. Leisen lost to his partner Gibbons, who received the Oscar for The Bridges of San Luis Rey . The costumes came from Gilbert Adrian . The sound engineer was Douglas Shearer .
The song How Am I to Know was composed by Jack King, the lyrics were written by the writer Dorothy Parker . Other pieces of music in the film came from Herbert Stothart .
The film shows a sports festival at which the then still quite new gym wheels are shown, and Cynthia Crothers wins a women's drum bike race .
Web links
- Dynamite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of the New York Times (English)
- ↑ What do the cinemas bring. In: Prager Tagblatt , September 6, 1930, SS 14 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ The Film - A New Cecile de Mille Film. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , April 21, 1931, p. 11 (online at ANNO ). "The film, which is characterized by a particularly interesting subject and large equipment, will soon be released in Vienna."
- ↑ Attention, attention, they see and hear .... In: Wiener Bilder , April 26, 1931, p. 20 (online at ANNO ). “There are some interesting films coming out next week. [...] Finally, Metro-Goldwyn is showing the last work of master dresser Cecil B. de Mille "Dynamit", [...] "
- ↑ From the film. In: The interesting sheet / Wiener Illustrierte , May 7, 1931, p. 22 (online at ANNO ). "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is bringing the new Cecil de Mille film« Dynamit »."
- ↑ The film - A Röhnrad race in the film. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , April 24, 1931, SS 10 (right column) (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Krimmer's Ton-Kino, Feldkirch. In: Feldkircher Anzeiger / Feldkircher Anzeiger. Feldkircher Wochenblatt / Vorarlberger Oberland. Rankweil community sheet - Feldkircher Anzeiger - Frastanz community sheet , April 29, 1931, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).