Actors: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale
Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Donald Crisp, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Rating: 7 out of 10, A gift from a
friend when I revealed this was the lone Oscar Best Picture winning movie I had
never seen. It’s an interesting look at the life of Zola, known to most of the non-French
speaking world for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair. It struck me as interesting,
given the time frame this movie came out, just before World War 2. It is decidedly
anti-military and almost 1960ish with its railing against the
military-industrial complex. I enjoyed this very long movie which really crackles
when Zola is summoned to a courtroom to defend himself against the French
military. The film is dated, it came out eighty years ago, but it still speaks
to the importance of truth and fighting the good fight.
MVP: Muni as Zola, hard to believe
anyone else was in this movie
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