Oscar Potoker

Nascimento : 1880-04-26, Vinnitsa, Russian Empire [now Vinnytsia, Ukraine]

Filmes

Hei Tiki
Music
Hei Tiki, also known as Primitive Passions and Hei Tiki: A Saga of the Maoris, is a 1935 American mock-documentary film made in New Zealand by the eccentric Alexander Markey and released (with sound added) in America. The film gained notoriety in America for having scenes of nudity cut in various states. It is one of four films (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and On the Friendly Road) which claim to be the first "New Zealand talkie", although the claim is dubious in this case as the sound was added in America.
Trailing the Killer
Music
While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka as a cougar or puma the narrator was quick to point out. But the makers also pointed out that Caesar "is the most intelligent dog actor since Rin-Tin-Tin" which probably lured a few Rin-Tin-Tin fans with a show-me attitude. Caesar prowls around the woods of the Northwest, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch the dainty habits of a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it---and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time---and then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald)) from getting et up by one mean mountain lion. Rin-Tin-Tin he ain't, but then who was? Commonwealth...
A Vênus Loura
Original Music Composer
Uma cantora de cabaré faz acordo com um milionário para pagar a operação do marido gravemente doente. O químico americano Ned Faraday (Herbert Marshall) se casa com Helen (Marlene Dietrich), uma cantora de cabaré alemã, e começam uma família. Então Ned se envenena com Radium e precisa de um tratamento caro na Alemanha para ter alguma chance de ser curado. A esposa Helen volta ao trabalho no clube noturno para tentar ganhar dinheiro e pagar o tratamento e acaba se tornando popular como a Vênus Loura. Em um esforço para conseguir dinheiro suficiente mais rápido, ela se prostitui com o milionário Nick Townsend (Cary Grant). (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Beauty and the Boss
Orchestrator
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Rich Man's Folly
Music
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Alexander Hamilton
Orchestrator
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Chances
Orchestrator
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Smart Money
Orchestrator
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Ladies Love Brutes
Original Music Composer
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
Sarah and Son
Original Music Composer
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
Alvorada do Amor
Original Music Composer
A história da Rainha Louise da Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) e o seu novo marido, Conde Alfred (Maurice Chevalier). Embora o Conde Alfred tenha prometido, na cerimónia de casamento, ser um marido dócil, ele depressa se arrepende da sua decisão a partir do momento em que as suas ordens não são obedecidas e se vai tornando enfastiado com a vida que leva. Ameaçando partir para Paris, ele só é detido pela Rainha Louise quando ela lhe oferece o equivalente aos poderes de um rei...
The Mighty
Original Music Composer
In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Music
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.