| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Writing, Achievement Hanns Kräly No official nominees had been announced this year. |
MGM
Directed by Sidney Franklin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, MGM)
(Turner Classic Movies)
Spending quality time with Norma Shearer is about the only pleasure of watching this early talkie. She flirts with Basil Rathbone, makes eyes at an elderly Lord in order to obtain a marriage proposal and is friendly with a jewel thief. If only I were so lucky. Otherwise, it's long, tortuous dialogue scenes with a mostly static camera set in a few rooms of a grand British mansion and its stuffy inhabitants.
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