Maurice Schwartz

Tevya

Maurice Schwartz

Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle

Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed daughter Tseytl, her two children, and his younger daughter, the unmarried Khave. Khave is being courted by Fedya, a Christian, the son of a local government official. Tevye warns Khave against romance and marriage outside her faith, but Fedya is persuasive too. What will Khave decide, how will Tevye react, and when the Tsar initiates a pogrom, will Tevye's friends come to his defense? Can the stubborn Tevye reconcile his heart and tradition?

Uncle Moses

Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto

Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel

Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.

Bird of Paradise

Delmer Daves

Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan

Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga's Polynesian island home. There, Andre becomes attracted to the native life and his friend's sister, Kalua.

Salome

William Dieterle

Rita Hayworth, Charles Laughton

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...

Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage

Romeo Bosetti

Maurice Schwartz, Sarah Duhamel

Wimpy Little Moritz needs to toughen up to win Rosalie, but ends up smashing everyone and everything in sight when boxing lessons turn him into a mindless fighting machine. (MoMA)

Little Moritz enlève Rosalie

Henri Gambart

Sarah Duhamel, Maurice Schwartz

The Man Behind the Mask

Michael Powell

Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.

Jiskor

Sidney M. Goldin

Maurice Schwartz, Carl Goetz

A period drama set in a Volhynian village.

Mission to Moscow

Michael Curtiz

Walter Huston, Ann Harding

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Little Moritz chasse les grands fauves

Alfred Machin

Maurice Schwartz

Slaves of Babylon

William Castle

Richard Conte, Linda Christian

The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shepherd, is proclaimed king and defeats Nebuchadnezzar.

Le fusil de Little Moritz

Henri Gambart

Maurice Schwartz

Little Moritz gets a rifle that shoots little darts from hs father and immediately uses to it break windows and cause messes.