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This Day and Age (1933) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and produced by Cecil B. DeMille.

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DeMille's only gangster movie pits the young people who participate in a youth-week celebration against dangerous hoodlums. Bickford puts the protection strong-arm racket on a defenseless tailor, and then kills him as an example to other noncooperative merchants. When the mayor turns over the reins of government to the kids for the day, they use their new powers to terrify the mobster into confession.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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This Day and Age Facts
Chester Morris was second choice the role of Louis Garrett, but he proved to be too expensive.
While in pre-production for this film, 'Cecil B. deMille' was also planning a subsequent epic film called "The End of the World" which was inspired in part by the novel 'When Worlds Collide' by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, and by the film End of the World. DeMille went so far as to purchase the rights to both subjects ('When Worlds Collide' was bought for $7,5000). Ultimately the script was never even written and the project was discarded.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
The only film in which John Carradine was billed under the name John Peter Richmond, which he used from 1932 until 1935. He received no on-screen credit in any of his other features during that period.
Shooting from May 17-June 21,1933,released August 25.
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