The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is suddenly invigorated with energy to start afresh. Margot picks up the gun to defend her husband, trying to save him in the face of danger. For once in their lives, husband and wife are both on the same side, shooting at the same bull. It is tragically ironic, of course, as she kills the man she is trying to save, but such is Hemingway’s commentary on life. The good things we gain are the sweetest, and the most short-lived. A third interpretation of Margot’s shot is that she is trying to regain dominance over her husband by killing the
Happy Days (1929 film) merged in 1935 with Twentieth Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox. No widescreen print of "Happy Days" is known to survive. Happy Days (1929 film) Happy Days is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed in the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's "Napoléon" (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. In 1927, Paramount released "Old Ironsides" with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope". In 1928, MGM released "Trail of '98"