The Life of Emile Zola : 1937: Winner of the 10th Academy Awards
Starring:
Paul Muni as Émile Zola
Gloria Holden as Alexandrine Zola
Gale Sondergaard as Lucie Dreyfus
Donald Crisp as Maitre Labori
John Litel as Charpentier
Henry O'Neill as Colonel Picquart
Morris Carnovsky as Anatole France
Louis Calhern as Major Dort
Ralph Morgan as Commander of Paris
Robert Barrat as Major Walsin-Esterhazy
Vladimir Sokoloff as Paul Cézanne
Grant Mitchell as Georges Clemenceau
Harry Davenport as Chief of Staff
Robert Warwick as Major Henry
Charles Richman as M. Delagorgue
Gilbert Emery as Minister of War
Walter Kingsford as Colonel Sandherr
Paul Everton as Assistant Chief of Staff
Montagu Love as M. Cavaignac
Frank Sheridan as M. Van Cassell
Lumsden Hare as Mr. Richards
Here’s the ticket to one of the precedents to American’s love of angry men in court. The story revolves around the French –some time’s political writer Emile Zola, who went from rags to riches with his hit novel “Nana”. After some time he encounters a real shot to prove his political writings when he tries to aid a general wrongly accused of Treason. He along with the convict get discredited and Emile has to flee for his life. Later the commandeering general is no longer able to keep the secret blows his brains out and Emile is once again believed in and the general gets his life back. Truthfully this was kind of bore, and it made me irritable lucilky after that we watched a Bollywood movie with Salinger so it wasn’t too bad. Watch it if you want to see the principal culprit of American movies in the courtroom. Watch it if your French but don’t watch it and expect entertainment.
It also won awards for:
Best Actor: Paul Muni
Best Director: William Dieterle
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