| The House of Rothschild | |
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Theatrical release poster |
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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 |
| Studio | Twentieth Century Pictures |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | April 7, 1934 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The House of Rothschild (1934) is an American film 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, along with the MGM musical The Cat and the Fiddle, released in February 1934.
A scene from The House of Rothschild was used in the Nazi feature film The Eternal Jew (1940) without the permission of the copyright holders.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.