Grand Hotel (1932) Director: Edmund Goulding Grand Hotel is a wonderful film released by MGM, a winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the only film to win Best Picture without any other individuals involved being nominated in another category. The film stars Greta Garbo as the dancer, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, … Continue reading Grand Hotel
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Director: Lewis Milestone The first great anti-war film based on Erin Maria Remarque’s novel of the same name (1929). Remarque had experience first-hand as a German soldier during the war. The film was made on a budget of $1.25 million for Universal Pictures, under the leadership of Carl Laemmie, … Continue reading All Quiet on the Western Front
Wings
12/11/14 Wings (1927) Director: William A. Wellman Wings is 1927 silent film and one of the first major epic war films in a long history that extends to the present day. The restored version runs at 144 minutes. Wings was the first movie to win Best Picture at the first Academy of Motion Picture Arts and … Continue reading Wings
