From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930 and Bringing Up Baby from 1938.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1931 American epic pre-Code anti-war film based on the 1929 Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name.
Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States.
Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 101 Years...101 Movies list in 1997.
A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film.
In 1991, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director.
Its sequel, The Road Back (1936), portrays members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war.
Directed by: Lewis Milestone.
Produced by: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Written by: Maxwell Anderson (adaptation & dialogue), George Abbott (screenplay) , Del Andrews (adaptation) and C. Gardner Sullivan
(supervising story chief).
Based on: All Quiet on the Western Front: by : Erich Maria Remarque.
Starring: Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim.
Music by: David Broekman.
Cinematography: Arthur Edeson.
Edited by: Edgar Adams and Milton Carruth (silent version, uncredited).
Production company: Universal Studios.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures.
Release date: 21 April , 1930 (US.
File Length: 126 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1.2 million.
Box office: $1,634,001 (US rentals) and $3 million (worldwide rentals).
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
It was released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby.
The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on 10 April, 1937.
The script was written specifically for Hepburn, and was tailored to her personality.
Filming began in September 1937 and wrapped in January 1938; it was over schedule and over budget.
Production was frequently delayed due to uncontrollable laughing fits between Hepburn and Grant.
Hepburn struggled with her comedic performance and was coached by another cast member, vaudeville veteran Walter Catlett.
A tame leopard was used during the shooting; its trainer was off-screen with a whip for all of its scenes.
Bringing up Baby was a commercial flop upon its release, although it eventually made a small profit after its re-release in the early 1940s.
Shortly after the film's premiere, Hepburn was labeled as " box office poison" by the Independent Theatre Owners of America and her career would not recover until The Philadelphia Story two years later.
The film's reputation began to grow during the 1950s, when it was first shown on television.
Since then, the film has received acclaim from both critics and audiences for its zany antics and pratfalls, absurd situations and misunderstandings, perfect sense of comic timing, completely screwball cast, series of lunatic and hare-brained misadventures, disasters, light-hearted surprises and romantic comedy.
In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and it has appeared on a number of greatest-films lists, ranking 88th on the American Film Institute's 100 greatest American films of all time list.
Directed by: Howard Hawks.
Produced by: Cliff Reid and Howard Hawks.
Screenplay by: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, Robert McGowan (uncredited) and Gertrude Purcell (uncredited).
Story by: Hagar Wilde.
Based on: Bringing Up Baby: 1937 short story in Collier's by Hagar Wilde.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Walter Catlett and Fritz Feld.
Music by: Roy Webb (musical director) , Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields (original writers of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby ).
Cinematography: Russell Metty.
Edited by: George Hively.
Production company: RKO Radio Pictures.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release date: 16 February , 1938 ( Golden Gate Theatre) and 23 November , 1938 (United States).
File Length: 102 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1.1 million.
Box office: $1.1 million.
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