Top cast:William E. Shay,Mary Pickford,Owen Moore
Director:Jan Krízenecký
Genre:History
Region:Kuwait
Year:2017
Storyline:This simple, poignant ""womens-type"" film was positioned between his classic war filmIn Which We Serve (1942)and his later epic films, includingThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),Lawrence of Arabia (1962), andDoctor Zhivago (1965).The classic MGM, coming-of-age children""s film acquired four Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Best Film Editing - Elmo Veron, and Best Screenplay - Marc Connolly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every) with Spencer Tracy taking home his very first Best Actor Oscar (he experienced back-to-back wins when he also won Best Actor the following year forBoys Town (1938)) for his heart-warming performance.In Vienna, Austria, Richard Dressler (Alan Bates), an Austrian Neo-Nazi (the back of his wristwatch was inscribed with a swastika symbol), complained in a lecture about how the US (West) and Russia (East) were imposing their paternalistic will on the European community and its smaller countries, where they were "treated like children" and not allowed their own sovereign ability to govern themselves." Although they had seen Earth""s destruction, they had barely escaped through a time warp: "We have passed through a backward disturbance in time.