House of Rothschild, The
 (1934)
Biography, History, War
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#6315
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IMDB   6.9
1 hr 34 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
George Arliss Mayer Rothschild / Nathan Rothschild
Boris Karloff Count Ledrantz
Loretta Young Julie Rothschild
Robert Young Capt. Fitzroy
C. Aubrey Smith Duke of Wellington
Arthur Byron Baring
Helen Westley Gudula Rothschild
Reginald Owen Herries
Florence Arliss Hannah Rothschild
Alan Mowbray Prince Metternich
Holmes Herbert Rowerth
Paul Harvey Solomon Rothschild
Ivan F. Simpson Amschel Rothschild
Noel Madison Carl Rothschild
Director
Alfred L. Werker
Sidney Lanfield
Producer Raymond Griffith
William Goetz
Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer Nunnally Johnson
George Hembert Westley
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Musician Alfred Newman

n the person of Nathan Rothschild, overlord of the international banking house that shaped the destiny of Europe, George Arliss has found his most congenial role since Disraeli. The story provides a fasinating study of internatinal intrigue in the nineteenth century. It is presented straight-forwardly, without apology or sentimentality. Because of its lack of dramatic sequence, the picture lapses into passages that become monotonous. The injection of a romantic episode between Nathan's daughter and a Gentile British office, with its mixed-marriage problem during those years, is tritely handled. This film is rarely shown over the years in America and is controversal at times. On the whole, the picture has been skillfully cast, and there are good performances by George Arliss, Reginald Owen and Boris Karloff who gives an excellent performance as Baron Ledrantz.
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