Millions for a woman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Millions for a woman |
| Original title | The Wolf of Wall Street |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rowland V. Lee |
| script | Doris Anderson |
| music | Karl Hajos |
| camera | Victor Milner |
| cut | Robert Bassler |
| occupation | |
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Millions for a Woman (Original title: The Wolf of Wall Street ; German reference title Börsenfieber ) is a 1929 American feature film by the director Rowland V. Lee . It was one of the first sound films for the Paramount Pictures film company .
action
The broker Jim Bradford plays with the money of various investors on the stock exchange. Bradford despises investors and laughs at the "dumb" every morning on the way to work. While he succeeds in a coup in the trade in copper, his partner Tyler loses money there. Bradford publicly humiliates his partner. This takes revenge by seducing Bradford's attention-seeking wife Olga. Their maid Gert learns of the affair and wants to use it for her own benefit. She gives her friend Frank inside information about the copper trade, which is making its first profits. He cannot resist the temptation and reinvests the money won, this time losing everything due to Bradford's manipulations. Frank embezzles money at work to cover his debts, but is caught and has to go to jail. Gert accuses Bradford of causing her boyfriend's plight. When this device laughs, she reveals the affair between Olga and Tyler.
Bradford then manipulates the market again to take Olga and Tyler out of their money. However, he also loses his fortune in the process. On Wall Street he meets Gert and Frank, who have won a lot of money through his manipulation and now want to get married.
criticism
The critic Mordaunt Hall criticized the film's uninteresting story. Almost everyone who stood in front of Trinity Church for half an hour and watched the brokers, bankers, investors and stenographers there could write a more interesting and plausible story (“more exciting and plausible story”). The acting performance of George Bancroft is quite neat ("fairly well"), that of the other actors, however, quite disappointing ("quite disappointing"). In particular, he criticized Olga Baclanova, who has an interesting accent, but can hardly be understood in some dialogues ("quite indistinct").
AM Sherwood, Jr. of New York magazine The Outlook praised Bancroft's performance as one of the best of the early sound film era ("far beyond anything that the talkies have produced so far"). The dialogues of the film would be well-written and relevant to the topic (“cleverly written and pregnant”). The otherwise so reliable Nancy Carroll, however, delivers a disappointing performance for the first time (“disappointment, for the first time”).
background
According to the film website silentera.com, a full copy of the film exists. However, this information is unconfirmed.
The existence of an approximately 17-second short montage sequence ( The Money Machine ) from the film, which was created by Slavko Vorkapić and from 2001 to 2005 as part of the American film retrospective tour Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894–1941, is secured was presented.
literature
- Blake Macveigh: The Wolf of Wall Street, Etc. Novelized ... from the Screen Play by Doris Anderson, Etc. New York, 1929, 286 pages
Web links
- Million to a woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Barrios: A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-195088-113 , page 53
- ^ A b c Movie Reviews in New York Times, January 28, 1929
- ↑ a b c The Movies in The Outlook of February 13, 1929
- ↑ The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) at silentera.com, accessed November 26, 2013
- ↑ Bruce Posner: Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894–1941. New York, NY Black Thistle Press, Anthology Film Archives, 2001, 154