The Devil's Holiday
- Nancy Carroll: Hallie Hobart
- Phillips Holmes and David Stone
- James Kirkwood: Mark Stone
- Hobart Bosworth: Ezra Stone
- Ned Sparks: Charlie Thorne
- Paul Lukas: Dr. Reynolds
- ZaSu Pitts: Ethel
The Devil's Holiday is an American film drama from the year 1930. The screenplay is based on a story by director Edmund Goulding.
Action
Hallie Hobart hates men. She works in a hotel as a manicurist and earns with small shops with farm machinery something on the side. These transactions are threaded by Charlie Thorne. In one of these shops, she meets David Stone, the son of a wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. David takes you to fall in love with them. His brother Mark is coming to town to uncover their intrigues and thus protect his brother before her.
Hallie, angry at being portrayed as schemer, swears revenge. When the unsuspecting David makes her a marriage proposal, she agrees. On the farm Ezra rebukes Mark; he should remain Hallie against peaceful. However, with time Ezra recognizes that Hallie does not love her son. Hallie sets a price for which they would leave the farm.
Ezra searches Hallie in her hotel, where she keeps a farewell party. Hallie begins to regret their intrigues. David begins to suffer from mental exhaustion. The Viennese psychiatrist Dr. Reynolds to help him. Hallie returns the money. She asks him for forgiveness. Soon after, David and Hallie are reunited.
Background
The film is one of more than 700 productions of Paramount Pictures, which were filmed 1929-1949, and their television rights were sold to Universal Pictures in 1958. The premiere took place on 9 May 1930.
The film was simultaneously shot in several versions: German (Sunday of Life by Leo Mittler with Camilla Horn ); Swedish ( En kvinnas morgondag Gustaf Bergman with Vera Schmidterlöw ); French ( Les Vacances du Diable by Alberto Cavalcanti with Marcelle Chantal ); Italian ( La vacanza del diavolo by Jack Salvatori with Carmen bonuses ); Spanish ( La fiesta del diablo by Adelqui Migliar with Carmen Larrabeiti ). All versions were shot at Paramount Studios in Joinville- le -Pont, France.
Criticism
Was Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times, the film had a number of interesting scenes that were well directed and acted, but also scenes of the rather irritating laugh. The performers are consistently good, especially Paul Lukas was excellent.
Awards
In the third Academy Awards 1930 Nancy Carroll was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.