The House of Rothschild
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The House of Rothschild | |
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Directed by | Alfred L. Werker |
Produced by | William Goetz Raymond Griffith Darryl F. Zanuck |
Written by | G. H. Westley (play) Nunnally Johnson |
Starring | George Arliss Loretta Young Boris Karloff |
Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley |
Editing by | Barbara McLean Allen McNeil |
Release date(s) | 7 April 1934 |
Running time | 88 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The House of Rothschild is a 1934 film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and directed by Alfred L. Werker.
The movie stars George Arliss, Loretta Young, and Boris Karloff, in the biographical story of the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.
Its final sequence was one of the first shot in the three-strip Technicolor process.
A scene from "The House of Rothchild" was used in the Nazi film The Eternal Jew.
[edit] Cast
- George Arliss - Mayer Rothschild / Nathan Rothschild
- Boris Karloff - Count Ledrantz
- Loretta Young - Julie Rothschild
- Robert Young - Captain Fitzroy
- C. Aubrey Smith - Duke of Wellington
- Arthur Byron - Baring
- Helen Westley - Gudula Rothschild
- Reginald Owen - Herries
- Florence Arliss - Hannah Rothschild
- Alan Mowbray - Prince Metternich
- Holmes Herbert - Rowerth
- Paul Harvey - Solomon Rothschild
- Ivan F. Simpson - Amschel Rothschild (as Ivan Simpson)
- Noel Madison - Carl Rothschild
- Murray Kinnell - James Rothschild