Herbert Stothart Articles

Sacha Guitry, The Story of a Cheat FILM Follow the Fleet d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor Fury d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang Libeled Lady d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch Le Roman d’un [...]

Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town’s Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]

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 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. Lew Ayres plays [...]

Set in a 17th-century Danish village, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful Vredens dag / Day of Wrath is a stark, but deeply felt indictment against religious fanaticism and intolerance. Moving performances by ingénue Lisbeth Modin and accused witch Anna Svierkier add a touch of humanity to the horrors shown on screen. It is not a coincidence that Vredens Dag was made in 1943, a time when [...]