Condemned is a
1929-Events:The days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors....
American black and white
melodramaThe theatrical genre of melodrama uses theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" and "drama" . While the use of music is nearly ubiquitous in modern film, in most cases it is used within a fairly rigid structure...
film. It stars
Ronald ColmanRonald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...
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Ann HardingAnn Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.-Early years:...
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Dudley DiggesDudley Digges was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the play that Rodgers and Hammerstein later musicalized as Carousel...
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Louis WolheimLouis Wolheim was an American character actor.His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing football for Cornell University. Despite his rugged visage, Wolheim was intelligent and cultivated, speaking French, German, Spanish, and Yiddish. He was also a mathematics...
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William ElmerWilliam Elmer , was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 88 films between 1913 and 1942.He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
, and Wilhelm von Brincken. The movie was adapted by
Sidney HowardSidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.-Early life:...
from the novel by
Blair NilesBlair Niles was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Blair Niles is a pen name of Mary Blair Rice, adopted from her late second husband's name, Robert Niles, Jr.- History :...
. It was directed by
Wesley RugglesWesley Ruggles was an American film director.He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles...
. The tagline was "
A kiss that cannot be forgotten!"
The film is known by a variety of other names, including:
Condenado in Portugal and Spain,
Condemned to Devil's Island in the USA reissue,
Condenado a Isla del Diablo in Argentina,
Flucht von der Teufelsinsel in Austria,
L'isola del diavolo in Italy, and Prisoners (the US working title)
In 1930, the film was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ronald Colman's collective work on this film and
Bulldog DrummondBulldog Drummond is a 1929 detective film which tells the story of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl. It stars Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge, Joan Bennett,...
.
This is first of eight films which was worked on by both Samuel Goldwyn and Sidney Howard.
Condemned is a
1929-Events:The days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors....
American black and white
melodramaThe theatrical genre of melodrama uses theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" and "drama" . While the use of music is nearly ubiquitous in modern film, in most cases it is used within a fairly rigid structure...
film. It stars
Ronald ColmanRonald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...
,
Ann HardingAnn Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.-Early years:...
,
Dudley DiggesDudley Digges was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the play that Rodgers and Hammerstein later musicalized as Carousel...
,
Louis WolheimLouis Wolheim was an American character actor.His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing football for Cornell University. Despite his rugged visage, Wolheim was intelligent and cultivated, speaking French, German, Spanish, and Yiddish. He was also a mathematics...
,
William ElmerWilliam Elmer , was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 88 films between 1913 and 1942.He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
, and Wilhelm von Brincken. The movie was adapted by
Sidney HowardSidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.-Early life:...
from the novel by
Blair NilesBlair Niles was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Blair Niles is a pen name of Mary Blair Rice, adopted from her late second husband's name, Robert Niles, Jr.- History :...
. It was directed by
Wesley RugglesWesley Ruggles was an American film director.He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles...
. The tagline was "
A kiss that cannot be forgotten!"
The film is known by a variety of other names, including:
Condenado in Portugal and Spain,
Condemned to Devil's Island in the USA reissue,
Condenado a Isla del Diablo in Argentina,
Flucht von der Teufelsinsel in Austria,
L'isola del diavolo in Italy, and Prisoners (the US working title)
In 1930, the film was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ronald Colman's collective work on this film and
Bulldog DrummondBulldog Drummond is a 1929 detective film which tells the story of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl. It stars Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge, Joan Bennett,...
.
This is first of eight films which was worked on by both Samuel Goldwyn and Sidney Howard. The last was Raffles (1940).
Cast
- Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...
- Michel
- Ann Harding
Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.-Early years:...
- Madame Vidal
- Dudley Digges
Sir Dudley Digges , of Chilham Castle, Kent , was a Member of Parliament, elected to the Parliament of 1614 and that of 1621, and also a "Virginia adventurer," an investor who ventured his capital in the Virginia Company of London...
- Vidal
- Louis Wolheim
Louis Wolheim was an American character actor.His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing football for Cornell University. Despite his rugged visage, Wolheim was intelligent and cultivated, speaking French, German, Spanish, and Yiddish. He was also a mathematics...
- Jacques
- William Elmer
William Elmer , was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 88 films between 1913 and 1942.He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
- Pierre
- Wilhelm von Brincken - Vidal's orderly (as William Vaughn)
- Albert Kingsley - Felix
- Constantine Romanoff - Brute Convict
- Harry Ginsberg - Inmate
- Bud Sommers - Inmate
- Stephen Selznick - Inmate
- Baldy Biuddle - Inmate
- John George
John "Jack" Phelps George was a British athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.He was born in Croydon and died in Purley, London....
- Inmate
- Arturo Kobe - Inmate
- Emile Tramont - Inmate (as Emile Schwartz)
- John Schwartz
John Schwartz was an Anti-Lecompton Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas.Schwartz was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Mark Edward Schwartz and Sharon Renee Adkins. He received a degree from Harvard University at the age of ten years and was apprenticed to a merchant...
- Inmate
Soundtrack
Note: this list is incomplete
- "Song of the Condemned"
- Written by Jack Meskill and Pete Wendling
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