Best Films - 1930
by Andre Soares
Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture that I’ve seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone’s rendition of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist novel.
FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Bishop Murder Case
Going Wild
In Gay Madrid
Let Us Be Gay
Sous les toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris
DIRECTOR
Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
René Clair (Sous les toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris)
Nick Grindé & David Burton (The Bishop Murder Case)
Robert Z. Leonard (In Gay Madrid)
Robert Z. Leonard (Let Us Be Gay)
William A. Seiter (Going Wild)
ACTOR
Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar)
Chester Morris (The Bat Whispers)
Ramon Novarro (In Gay Madrid)
Warner Oland (The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu)
Albert Préjean (Sous les toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris)
ACTRESS
Norma Shearer (Let Us Be Gay)
Dorothy Jordan (In Gay Madrid)
Dorothy Peterson (Mothers Cry)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Noah Beery (Golden Dawn)
Edward Everett Horton (Reaching for the Moon)
George F. Marion (The Bishop Murder Case)
Charles Quartermaine (The Bishop Murder Case)
Ernest Torrence (Call of the Flesh)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marie Dressler (Let Us Be Gay)
Renée Adorée (Call of the Flesh)
May Boley (Going Wild)
Marie Dressler (The Girl Said No)
Beryl Mercer (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Ona Munson (Going Wild)
Zelma O’Neal (Follow Thru)
Marjorie Rambeau (Min and Bill)
Alison Skipworth (Outward Bound)
Blanche Sweet (Showgirl in Hollywood)
SCREENPLAY
Maxwell Anderson, Del Andrews & George Abbott (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Frances Marion & Lucille Newmark (Let Us Be Gay)
Humphrey Pearson & Henry McCarthy (Going Wild)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
William H. Daniels (Romance)
Arthur Edeson (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Henry Gerrard & Charles Boyle (Follow Thru)
Merritt B. Gerstad (Call of the Flesh)
Ray June (The Bat Whispers)
Roy Overbaugh (The Bishop Murder Case)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Armand Bernard (Sous les toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris)
Fred E. Ahlert, Xavier Cugat & Herbert Stothart (In Gay Madrid)
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