1929 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
![Applause](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/applause-rouben-mamoulian-image.jpg)
Applause
A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
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Broadway
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
![Bulldog Drummond](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bulldog-drummond-f.-richard-jones-image.jpg)
Bulldog Drummond
A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman, whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
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Disraeli
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
![Hallelujah](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hallelujah-king-vidor-image.jpg)
Hallelujah
A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
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Paris Bound
Pre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry’s Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, and the two paramours they deserted who wait patiently – and manipulatively – in the wings.
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The Case of Lena Smith
In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from …
![The Letter](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-letter-jean-de-limur-image.jpg)
The Letter
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). …
![The Love Parade](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-love-parade-ernst-lubitsch-image.jpg)
The Love Parade
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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The Valiant
After accidentally killing the key witness to a crime, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law, under a false name intending to protect his own family. But when the news of his …