The Wolf of Wall Street (1929 film)
- George Bancroft: Jim Bradford
- Olga Baclanova Olga Bradford
- Nancy Carroll: Gert
- Paul Lukas: David Tyler
- Arthur Rankin: Frank
- Brandon Hurst: Sturgess
- Paul Guertzman: Office Boy
- Crauford Kent: Jessup
Million to a woman ( Original title: The Wolf of Wall Street; German reference title stock fever ) is a first performed in 1929 American feature film from director Rowland V. Lee. He was one of the first sound films, the film company Paramount Pictures.
Action
The broker Jim Bradford gambles with the money of many investors in the stock market. Bradford despises the investors and laughs every morning on the way to work on the " stupid ". While he succeeds in a coup in the trading of copper, his partner Tyler loses money there. Bradford humiliates his partner publicly. This takes revenge in which he seduces Bradford for attention -getting wife Olga. Their maid Gert learns of the affair and wants to use it to their own advantage. She gives her boyfriend Frank insider information on the copper trade, which thus enters first profits. He can not resist the temptation and invests the money won again, and this time he due to Bradford's manipulations loses everything. In order to cover its debts, Frank embezzles money on the work, but is caught and sent to prison. Gert accused Bradford to have caused the misery of her friend. When he laughs at Gert, she revealed the affair between Olga and Tyler.
Bradford then again manipulated the market to bring Olga and Tyler for their money. However, he also loses his fortune. On Wall Street, he meets Gert and Frank, who have won through his manipulations lot of money and want to get married.
Criticism
The critic Mordaunt Hall criticized the uninteresting story of the film. Almost everyone who had to stand for half an hour before the Trinity Church and there watched the brokers, bankers, investors and stenographers could write a more interesting and more plausible story ("more exciting and plausible story" ). The acting performance by George Bancroft was pretty neat ( "fairly well" ), which the rest of the cast, however, quite disappointing ( "quite disappointing" ). In particular, he criticized Olga Baclanova, although they have an interesting accent, but can hardly be understood in some dialogs ( "quite indistinct ").
A.M. Sherwood, Jr. of the New York magazine The Outlook praised Bancroft's performance as one of the best of the early sound era ( "far beyond anything did the talkies have so far produced "). The dialogues of the film were well written and relevant to the subject with meaning ( " cleverly written and pregnant" ). However, the usually so reliable Nancy Carroll deliver a disappointing first performance ( "disappointment, for the first time" ).
Background
According to the movie website silentera.com exists a complete copy of the film. However, these details are unconfirmed.
Backed up the stock of about 17 seconds short assembly sequence is ( The Money Machine) from the film, which was created by Slavko Vorkapić and from 2001 to 2005 as part of the American film retrospective tour Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde film 1894-1941 was presented.