The Life of Emile Zola

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.

Loyal Jewish artillery officer Dreyfuss (Joseph Schildkraut, early in his Academy Award-winning performance) summoned to general headquarters, quite unaware that de Clam (Louis Calhern) is about to frame him for espionage, the key sub-plot in The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937, starring Paul Muni.

William Dieterle directs Warner bio-pic style at peak efficiency, Paul Muni the title character, Vladimir Sokoloff as painter Paul Cezanne, who was a life-long friend, covering circumstances, world view, Mom and fiancee` (Florence Roberts, Gloria Holden), opening The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.

Paris ca. 1870's, Third Republic, Nana (Erin O'Brien Moore) is among streetwalkers chased into a cafe where she meets Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff) and Zola (Paul Muni), whose breakthrough novel she will inspire, in The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.

The longest single take in the famous speech, from the title character's trial for libel, Paul Muni as the revered writer accusing the French army of framing the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfuss for treason, from Warner Bros.' The Life Of Emile Zola, 1937.

A famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason in The Life of Emile Zola (1937).