The World Moves On

The World Moves On (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1934 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Ford

Written By:
Reginald Berkeley

Actors:
Madeleine Carroll ..... Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
Franchot Tone ..... Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Reginald Denny ..... Erik von Gerhardt
Sig Ruman ..... Baron von Gerhardt
Louise Dresser ..... Baroness von Gerhardt
Raul Roulien ..... Carlos Girard (1825) / Henri Girard (1914)
Stepin Fetchit ..... Dixie
Lumsden Hare ..... Gabriel Warburton (1825) / Sir John Warburton (1914)
Dudley Digges ..... Mr. Manning
Frank Melton ..... John Girard (1825)
Brenda Fowler ..... Madame Agnes Girard (1825)
Russell Simpson ..... Notary (1825)
Walter McGrail ..... The Duallist (1825)
Marcelle Corday ..... Madame Girard II (1914)
Charles Bastin ..... Jacques Girard, the Boy (1914)

Synopsis:

In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of two Louisiana families: The Girards, of French extraction, and the Warburtons, formerly of Manchester. Forming an alliance by marriage in 1825, the families rapidly corner the cotton business in the South. Years later, three of Girard/Warburton sons split up to head business operations in England, France and Germany: as a result, descendants of the original families find themselves fighting on opposite sides during WW I (this episode is similar to a memorable sequence in the 1928 silent Four Sons, which like World Moves On was directed by John Ford). Surviving the war, Richard (Franchot Tone), the last of the descendants becomes a sharkish Wall Street speculator in the 1920s, ultimately losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash. Bloody but unbowed, Richard and his wife Mary (Madeleine Carroll) cut their losses and return to their ancestral home, to start all over again. Both The World Moves On and the subsequent Fox production Road to Glory rely to a considerable extent upon stock footage from the grim 1931 French antiwar drama Wooden Crosses.

The story opens 185 years ago when two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War I and the years that follow, to test the businesses.

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.

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