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Daybreak (1931)

By on May 19, 2016
Daybreak (1931) 

Run time: 1h 25min | Drama
Director: Jacques Feyder
Writers: Arthur Schnitzler, Frances Marion
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith
Storyline
Feyder, a Belgian by birth, worked in France, the USA, Britain, and Germany.  He made several French classic silent films before being lured to Hollywood by MGM to direct Greta Garbo’s last silent film, THE KISS.   He later returned to France, where he made the award-winning CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS.  His brief Hollywood career produced the pre-Code DAYBREAK, a “waltz-drenched” costume drama set in the Hapsburg era, based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler, in which Ramon Novarro plays a rakish and cynical imperial lieutenant who seduces an innocent music teacher.  Leonard Maltin describes it as a “poignant love story” and a “polished adaptation” of Schnitzler’s story, “glowingly photographed and given a touch of European sophistication by the underrated Feyder.”
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Budget: $515,000 (estimated)
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