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The House of Rothschild (1934) was a Black-and-white - Drama Film directed by Alfred L. Werker and Sidney Lanfield and produced by Raymond Griffith, Darryl F. Zanuck and William Goetz.

Academy Awards 1934 --- Ceremony Number 7 (source: AMPAS)

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Best Picture20th CenturyNominated
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The House of Rothschild

By Alyson on Jul 17, 2010 From The Best Picture Project

Our story begins in Prussia, in the late 1700s, where Jews are confined to a ghetto and taxed heavily. ?Living there is a banker with wife and five sons, the Rothschild family. ?We see the oppression they?re under, having to hide their good things to look more poor than they are, just so the tax col... Read full article


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George Arliss asked Warner Bros. to buy the play on which this film was based while he was under contract there in 1931. Warners bought the play but did not make the film. When Arliss left Warners, he convinced Darryl F. Zanuck to purchase the play from Warners for 20th Century Pictures, where it was eventually made.
George Hembert Westley's play was unpublished, but copyrighted 11 May 1932.
The brief closing scene was shot in the three-strip Technicolor process.
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