Israel Zangwill

Nacimiento : 1864-01-21, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1926-08-01

Historia

British writer.

Películas

El veredicto
Novel
El señor Godman es un respetado jefe de policía de Scotland Yard. Sin embargo, cuando comete un error en una investigación que provoca la ejecución de un hombre inocente, su prestigio quedará empañado.
The Crime Doctor
Story
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Merely Mary Ann
Theatre Play
Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
The Perfect Crime
Novel
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
We Moderns
Theatre Play
A 1925 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
The Bachelor's Club
Writer
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
Nurse Marjorie
Theatre Play
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
Mary Ann
Theatre Play
The Moment Before
Theatre Play
The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
The Melting Pot
Theatre Play
The wide-ranging storyline of The Melting Pot takes its characters from the Jewish ghettoes of Russia to the Lower East Side of New York.