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Hugo Riesenfeld is a Sound Autrichien born on 26 january 1879 at Vienna (Austria)
Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was a Jewish Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career.
His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman (1917), The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927); D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) and Tabu (1931).
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Nationality Austria
Birth 26 january 1879 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 10 september 1939 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award
Birth 26 january 1879 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 10 september 1939 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award
His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman (1917), The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927); D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) and Tabu (1931).
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Home Sweet Home (2012)
, 1h27Directed by Ludwig Berger, Ludwig Berger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Emil Jannings, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Arthur, Zasu Pitts, Barry Norton, Jack Luden
Rating66%
Tell Your Children (1938)
, 1h6Directed by Louis Gasnier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about health care
Actors Dorothy Short, Dave O'Brien, Thelma White, Carleton Young, Joseph Forte, Lester Dorr
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating37%
Mae Coleman and Jack Perry are an unmarried couple living together (in the jargon of the era, they are "living in sin") and selling marijuana. Mae prefers to sell marijuana to customers her own age, whereas Jack sells the plant to young teenagers. Ralph Wiley, a psychotic ex-college student turned fellow dealer (and addict, according to the film), and Blanche help Jack sell cannabis to young students. Young students Bill Harper and Jimmy Lane are invited to Mae and Jack's apartment by Blanche and Ralph. Jimmy takes Bill to the party. There, Jack runs out of reefer. Jimmy, who has a car, drives him to pick up some more. Arriving at Jack's boss' "headquarters," he gets out and Jimmy asks him for a cigarette. Jack gives him a joint. Later, when Jack comes back down and gets into the car, Jimmy drives off dangerously, along the way running over a pedestrian with his car. A few days later, Jack tells Jimmy that the pedestrian died of his injuries. Jack agrees to keep Jimmy's name out of the case, providing he agrees to "forget he was ever in Mae's apartment". Jimmy does indeed escape the consequences of his crime—a rare occurrence in the film.
Hawaii Calls (1938)
, 1h31Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, Warren Hull, Gloria Holden, Juanita Quigley, Mamo Clark
Rating57%
King of the Sierras (1938)
, 53minutesDirected by Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Hobart Bosworth, Frank Campeau, Harry Harvey, Sr., Wally Albright, Edward Peil Sr.
Rating50%
Sunset Murder Case (1938)
Directed by Louis Gasnier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Sally Rand, Esther Muir, Vince Barnett, Paul Sutton, Lona Andre, Reed Hadley
Roles Music Director
Rating47%
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Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
, 1h10Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Hedda Hopper, George Meeker, George Barbier, C. Henry Gordon, Joe Sawyer, Wild Bill Elliott
Roles Music
Rating47%
Eleanor Reed (Eleanor Holm) accompanies her parents, Roger and Penny (George Barbier and Hedda Hopper), and Nevin Potter (George Meeker), her fiance, on an expedition to Africa to capture wild animals to sell to a zoo. Ben Alleu Bey (C. Henry Gordon) spots Eleanor and wishes her to become the one hundredth wife in his harem. When she refuses, he follows their safari.
Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)
, 53minutesDirected by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Robert D. Walker, Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Robert Walker, Max Terhune, Kenneth Harlan
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating55%
Make a Wish (1937)
, 1h17Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Bobby Breen, Henry Armetta, Donald Meek, Leonid Kinskey, Herbert Rawlinson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating54%
Whilst at summer camp in the Maine woods, young Chip Winters (Breen) befriends British composer Johnathan Selden (Rathbone), who left the city high life to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother Irene Winters (Claire) and Selden.
Daniel Boone (1936)
, 1h15Directed by David Howard
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Heather Angel, John Carradine, George O'Brien, Ralph Forbes, George Regas, Dickie Jones
Rating56%
In 1775, Daniel Boone leads thirty colonial families to Kentucky where they face two threats: Native American raiders led by renegade white Simon Girty, who opposes the colony; and the schemes of effete Stephen Marlowe to seize title to the new lands. Perils, battles, escapes, and a love interest round out the film.
Follow Your Heart (1936)
, 1h22Directed by Aubrey Scotto
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Nigel Bruce, Luis Alberni, Henrietta Crosman, Vivienne Osborne, Walter Catlett, Ben Blue
Rating59%
Hearts in Bondage (1936)
, 1h12Directed by Lew Ayres
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Henry B. Walthall, Charlotte Henry, Fritz Leiber
Rating56%
This 1936 film is In black and white and is a drama based on events in the American Civil War and starts with citizens choosing loyalty to the Confederate States of America or to the Union in the first days of the crisis. Early scenes show the burning of the USS Merrimack by its Union crew to prevent it from falling into Confederate hands. However, the Merrimack, which had been burnt down to the waterline, was later rebuilt by the Confederacy, as an ironclad, and was renamed the CSS Virginia.
Let's Sing Again (1936)
, 1h10Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bobby Breen, Henry Armetta, George F. Houston, Vivienne Osborne, Grant Withers, Inez Courtney
Rating56%
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
The Mandarin Mystery (1936)
, 1h6Directed by Philip Ford, Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn, George Irving
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53%
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The President's Mystery (1936)
, 1h20Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent, Wade Boteler, John Wray, Guy Usher
Rating56%
The film deals with a "problem Mr. Roosevelt submitted . . . whether it was possible for a man, weary of faithless friends and a wasted life, to convert a $5,000,000 estate into cash, disappear and start anew in some worth-while activity."
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
, 1h5Directed by Victor Halperin, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, George Cleveland, Carl Stockdale, E. Alyn Warren, John Archer
Roles Music
Rating34%
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an Oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula. Gen. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) kills the priest and takes the partially burned parchment. After the war, an expedition of representatives from the Allied countries with colonial interests are sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the so-called "Secret of the Zombies". The group includes Colonel Mazovia; a student of dead languages, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger); Englishman Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland); General Duval (George Cleveland); and his daughter Claire (Dorothy Stone).