The House of Rothschild

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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... more
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  • 1934

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  • 88 min (53 hs )

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Alfred L. Werker

Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 - July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs, Werker directed his first film in 1925. He was brought in by Fox Film Corporation executives to re-shoot and re-edit Erich von...

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  • 1934
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