The house of Rothschild

Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1934 20th Century Pictures feature film, "The House of Rothschild", based on a play by George Hembert Westley. Dramatizes the part played by the banking firm of the Rothschild brothers who contributed financial support to the defeat and exile of Napoleon and portrays how their struggle to correct racial injustice helped to abolish restrictions against the civil rights of Jews in Europe.

Credits

Directed by
Sidney Lanfield, Alfred L. Werker
Written by
George Arliss, Nunnally Johnson
Cast
Helen Westley, George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young, Holmes Herbert, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Brandon Hurst, Arthur Byron, Alan Mowbray, Matthew Betz, Georges Renavent, Gilbert Emery, Lumsden Hare, Murray Kinnell, Noel Madison …
Produced by
Darryl F. Zanuck, William Goetz, Raymond Griffith
Cinematography
John Peverell Marley
Music
Alfred Newman
Edited by
Barbara McLean
Complete catalog record

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q1215836 ↗ — year, country, genre, credits