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The Match King

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1hr 10min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1932
Directors:
Howard P. Bretherton, William Keighley
Starring:
Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell  ...more
Synopsis: The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like businessman who takes over a bankrupt Swedish match factory, then lies his way into getting corporate backing for the operation. With little regard for ethics, William purchases all existing match patents, ultimately monopolizing the industry. Ruining lives and breaking laws all over Europe, William is himself emotionally devastated when betrayed by a glamorous actress (Lily Damita). ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
Almost by necessity, bankers or industrialists were often depicted as villains by a Hollywood squarely on the side of the common man in the early years of what later came to be called the Great Depression. No more so than at that most proletarian of major studios Warner Bros., where the greedy capitalist reached a zenith of sorts in The Match King. Warren William's rise and fall was a highly fictional ... Full Review
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Warren William
Paul Kroll
Lili Damita
Marta Molnar
Glenda Farrell
Babe
Harold Huber
Scarlatti
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