Master and Man is a 1929 British drama film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Anne Grey, Henri De Vries and Olaf Hytten. A manager of a motor works is sacked for being too old, leading him into a bitter dispute with his former employer. It was based on the play Master and Man by George Robert Sims and Henry Pettitt. It was made at Isleworth Studios.
, 1h5 Directed byJosef von Sternberg OriginUSA GenresDrama ActorsGeorgia Hale, George K. Arthur, Stuart Holmes, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson, Olaf Hytten Rating65% There are important fragments of life that have been avoided by the motion picture because Thought is concerned and not the Body. A thought can create and destroy nations—and it is all the more powerful because it is born of suffering, lives in silence, and dies when it has done its work. Our aim has been to photograph a thought—A thought that guides humans who crawl close to the earth—whose lives are simple—who begin nowhere and end nowhere.
The "humans who crawl close to the earth" are introduced one after another. The Boy is a homeless, unemployed youth who fancies The Girl. He is a failure, the intertitles explain, because he believes in failure. According to The Boy, there are two types of people in the world—the poor, helpless "children of the mud" and the rich, successful "children of the sun" (note: drawn from a 1905 play by the same name by Russian playwright Maxim Gorky)—and he places himself somewhere in the middle. The Boy and The Girl live near a harbor and struggle to find food; eventually, they have to leave for the city: not only The Boy is unable to find a job, but also The Brute has been harassing The Girl, and The Boy is afraid of a direct confrontation. They leave, taking with them The Child, an orphan who lost his parents to an accident and was also a victim of The Brute.
, 1h51 Directed byMaurice Elvey OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Fantasy ActorsConrad Veidt, Marie Ney, Basil Gill, Anne Grey, Dennis Hoey, Hector Abbas Rating64% The plot follows the titular character's epic journey. He is finally burnt at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. As he burns, he is forgiven by God and finally allowed to die. The story bears a resemblance to the legend of the Flying Dutchman.