The North Star (1943) | |
| Director(s) | Lewis Milestone |
| Producer(s) | Samuel Goldwyn, William Cameron Menzies (associate) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Musical, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | World War II |
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The North Star (1943) was a Drama - Musical Film directed by Lewis Milestone and produced by Samuel Goldwyn and William Cameron Menzies.
Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol | Nominated |
| Best Cinematography | James Wong Howe | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Aaron Copland | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Lillian Hellman | Nominated |
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The North Star (1943)
By Beatrice on Oct 13, 2014 From Flickers in TimeThe North Star?(AKA Armored Attack) Directed by Lewis Milestone Written by Lillian Hellman 1943/USA The Samuel Goldwyn Company First viewing/Amazon Prime Instant Video If you can set aside?any knowledge of Ukrainian or Soviet history, this odd mixture of folk musical and Nazi-resistance drama is ... Read full article
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Sophia Pavlova, Rodion's wife:
A long time ago, this is the way I wore my hair.
Olga Pavlova, Marina's little sister: Were you pretty, Mama, when you were young?
Sophia Pavlova, Rodion's wife: I'm not so old, little one.
Marina Pavlova: Mama's pretty now and she's not old. It's only that your are so young.
Olga Pavlova, Marina's little sister: I'm not so young! There are plenty that are younger.
Rodion Pavlov, leader of mounted guerrillas: Yes, and there always will be.
Dr. von Harden: [while Dr. Kurin is holding a gun on Richter and von Harden] I do not like much of what I've done for the past nine years.
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [after von Harden has given a blood transfusion from a Russian child to a German soldier] You do not like bleeding children?
Dr. von Harden: Did the boy die?
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [Contemtuously] You knew he would die!
Dr. von Harden: They took too much blood. I'm sorry for that.
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: Yes, I nelieve you when you say you are sorry.
Dr. von Harden: I'm sorry for many things, Dr. Kurin. Most of all that this is not the world we used to know.
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: I've heard about you... civilized men who are sorry. This...
[Contemptuously gesturing toward Richter]
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: This kind is nothing! They will go when their bosses go, but men like you who have contempt for men like him! To me you are the real filth... men who do the work of Facists while they pretend to themselves that they are better than the beasts for whom they work... men who do murder while they laugh at them who order them to do it. It is men like you who have sold their people to men like him.
[He points to Richter and shoots him at point blank range]
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: You see, Dr. von Harden, you were wrong about many things. I AM a man who kills!
[He shoots von Harden at point blank range too]
Dr. von Harden: [Contemptuously to Richter] Do not beg my pardon so often. Doctor good manners don't make a good surgeon.
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Olga Pavlova, Marina's little sister: Were you pretty, Mama, when you were young?
Sophia Pavlova, Rodion's wife: I'm not so old, little one.
Marina Pavlova: Mama's pretty now and she's not old. It's only that your are so young.
Olga Pavlova, Marina's little sister: I'm not so young! There are plenty that are younger.
Rodion Pavlov, leader of mounted guerrillas: Yes, and there always will be.
Dr. von Harden: [while Dr. Kurin is holding a gun on Richter and von Harden] I do not like much of what I've done for the past nine years.
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [after von Harden has given a blood transfusion from a Russian child to a German soldier] You do not like bleeding children?
Dr. von Harden: Did the boy die?
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [Contemtuously] You knew he would die!
Dr. von Harden: They took too much blood. I'm sorry for that.
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: Yes, I nelieve you when you say you are sorry.
Dr. von Harden: I'm sorry for many things, Dr. Kurin. Most of all that this is not the world we used to know.
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: I've heard about you... civilized men who are sorry. This...
[Contemptuously gesturing toward Richter]
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: This kind is nothing! They will go when their bosses go, but men like you who have contempt for men like him! To me you are the real filth... men who do the work of Facists while they pretend to themselves that they are better than the beasts for whom they work... men who do murder while they laugh at them who order them to do it. It is men like you who have sold their people to men like him.
[He points to Richter and shoots him at point blank range]
Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: You see, Dr. von Harden, you were wrong about many things. I AM a man who kills!
[He shoots von Harden at point blank range too]
Dr. von Harden: [Contemptuously to Richter] Do not beg my pardon so often. Doctor good manners don't make a good surgeon.
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Facts about
Film debut of Farley Granger.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 3, 1944 with Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Jane Withers and Farley Granger reprising their film roles.
This is one of the films deemed "subversive" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in October, 1947, at the height of the McCarthy "Red Scare" era. The committee decided that, even though Russia was our ally against Nazi Germany in World War II - when this film was made - the movie's sympathetic portrayal of Russian peasants and guerrillas who were fighting off Nazi forces was an "endorsement" of Communism.
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"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 3, 1944 with Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Jane Withers and Farley Granger reprising their film roles.
This is one of the films deemed "subversive" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in October, 1947, at the height of the McCarthy "Red Scare" era. The committee decided that, even though Russia was our ally against Nazi Germany in World War II - when this film was made - the movie's sympathetic portrayal of Russian peasants and guerrillas who were fighting off Nazi forces was an "endorsement" of Communism.
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