| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Louise Dresser |
Pathe Exchange
Directed by William K. Howard
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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An immigrant family arrives in America to start a new life. They get a big apartment and the father gets a job as a janitor in a federal building. Five years pass and he qualifies for citizenship while his son joins the Army and leaves to fight in a war. Meanwhile, a dissatisfied immigrant plans to assassinate a judge who sentenced a friend to hard labor. He slips a bomb inside a cake box meant as a gift from Schildkraut, framing him for murder. He is tried and convicted. The real killer is tormented by guilt in some interesting scenes featuring clocks. American justice triumphs and their son becomes a war hero. Succeeds despite the patriotic propaganda, mainly due to the performance of Rudolph Schildkraut as the father, although ironically it was Dresser as the mother who got the Oscar nod.
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