Condemned (film)
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Condemned is an American black and white melodrama
Melodrama
The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...

 film. It stars Ronald Colman
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...

, Ann Harding
Ann Harding
Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.-Early years:Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to George G. Gatley and Elizabeth "Bessie" Crabb. The daughter of a career army officer, she traveled often during her early life...

, Dudley Digges
Dudley Digges (actor)
Dudley Digges was an Irish stage and film actor.Digges was born in Dublin. He went to America with a group of Irish players in 1904, and became successful both as an actor and producer. For a time, he was stage manager to Charles Frohman and George Arliss...

, Louis Wolheim
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...

, William Elmer
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:* Condemned...

, and Wilhelm von Brincken. The movie was adapted by Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard
Sidney 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 Niles
Blair Niles
Blair 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 Ruggles. The tagline was "A kiss that cannot be forgotten!"

Production background

In 1930, Ronald Colman was nominated for an Academy Award in the Acting category for his work in this film and in Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)
Bulldog Drummond is a 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. The film stars Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge, Joan...

(1929).

Condemned was the first of eight films written by Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard
Sidney 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:...

 for producer Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...

. The last was Raffles
Raffles (1939 film)
Raffles is a 1939 film starring David Niven and Olivia de Havilland. It is one of several film adaptations of an 1899 novel by E. W. Hornung, Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman. Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay for the 1930 version, died in 1939, and was given credit as co-author of the screenplay...

(1939).

Cast

  • Ronald Colman
    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
    Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.-Early years:Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to George G. Gatley and Elizabeth "Bessie" Crabb. The daughter of a career army officer, she traveled often during her early life...

     - Madame Vidal
  • Dudley Digges
    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
    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
    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:* Condemned...

     - 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 George (actor)
    John George was a dwarf actor who appeared in at least 130 movies from 1916 to 1960. George worked in films of all genres alongside countless stars although often for only the briefest of appearances....

     - Inmate
  • Arturo Kobe - Inmate
  • Emile Tramont - Inmate (as Emile Schwartz)
  • John Schwartz
    John Schwartz
    John Schwartz was an Anti-Lecompton Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

    - Inmate

Soundtrack

Note: this list is incomplete
  • "Song of the Condemned"
  • Written by Jack Meskill and Pete Wendling

International releases

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, and L'isola del diavolo in Italy.

External links

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