He praised nearly all of the main actors, particularly Sullavan ("Hers is a shimmering, almost unendurably lovely performance. she belongs there with…. Add a new plot ; Get the IMDb App. 1938 Unusual film in that Franchot Tone is the highlight. Refer…, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen 2,650 films 177 Edit, Films mentioned in André Bazin's published writings [incomplete list]. her power , it works because of her. The destroying angel scene, in particular, rings out with choir music and brings out my goosebumps, as the snow sifts downward with each discharge. I wonder what a third viewing will yield. Enter your location to see which Four comrades really, including the love interest.
Her teary eyes and hidden sadness were really touching. that's the word though). Compiled by Sam DiSalle at Mubi.com as of 1.19.19, all titles are gleaned from various sources, lists, interviews, etc. [3], According to MGM records, the film earned $1,193,000 in the United States and Canada and $850,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $472,000. TMDb I like his performance as the devoted friend who goes to great lengths to ensure the happiness of the couple Taylor and Sullavan. So what is left is incredible romance. All around an unexpected film, but certainly something I would watch again. Taylor courts the shimmering apparition, only to be struck by her fragility: Luxuriating by the beachfront on their honeymoon, Sullavan wistfully hears a cuckoo’s call before collapsing from a punctured lung. —Herman Seifer Edit Report This. For Robert Taylor, there is Margaret Sullavan’s love to blunt the era’s hardships, but comrades Robert Young and Franchot Tone are swept up in turmoil, reacting with both idealism and cynicism. she outshines them all without even trying.
Every film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award in any category. No mustache, either, so I was especially happy.
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Faithful to the spirit and, largely, to the letter of the novel, it has been magnificently directed, eloquently written, and admirably played." Erich Maria Remarque F. Scott Fitzgerald Edward E. Paramore Jr. 98 mins unshakably confident in their emotions and themselves. Soaring, righteous humanity and love in abject times. Ends up being pretty affecting regardless -- Sullivan's able to knead genuine happiness with heartrending empathy without ever turning into some boundless black hole of pity -- though some of the final act's compiled melodrama with Gottfried (plus the underlying mantra of Life After War somehow feels strangely out of place)…. It's set in Germany after the First World War, (you'll have no trouble accepting the American cast as Germans), and is about three friends, (Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young), and their relationship with a frivolous, sophisticated and dying girl.
Franchot Tone as Otto Koster, comrade and protector, who lives simply to see the joy in his friends' eyes.
The details of the close up scenes come into focus as Margaret Sullavan's eyes and Robert Taylor's perfect profile fill the screen. I also thought it was weird "Baby," the car, was driven in winter weather when it had no top. [4], "AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions Nominees", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three_Comrades_(1938_film)&oldid=958931237, Films based on works by Erich Maria Remarque, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 May 2020, at 10:26. Directed by Frank Borzage. Sign up for a FANALERT® and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. i love when they all sang together! SEE DETAILS. Director Frank Borzage and screenwriter F. Scott Fitzgerald adapt Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, a moving romantic tragedy. She received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as the woman who marries Taylor and has a terminal illness. I love movies about friendship. THE MORTAL STORM, 1940, Warner Bros., 100 min. We know life happens, so if something comes up, you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime. Perhaps because it resisted fully inhabiting the world it was set in. [2], The film was nominated for the American Film Institute's 2002 list AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions. THREE COMRADES, 1938, Warner Bros., 98 min. Synopsis THREE COMRADES, 1938, Warner Bros., 98 min. I actually liked Robert Taylor in this. This movie was quite sad. There's somebody here though that is the sweetest detail of all. This is a boring little film that chickens out when it comes to attacking anti-Semites for their beliefs and tearing apart the dangerous ideology that we now know would lead to Nazism. First of all this would be 10000x better if it was rob young or franchot in rob Taylor’s (aka Fred macmurray same character in every movie) place.
there’s never any moment the audience questions it, either. The closest it came to feeling real was during Sullivan’s illness at the hotel and the urgency of the Tone and Taylor characters. Same…, This list is taken from the ongoing MUBI list created by Sam DiSalle regarding Martin Scorsese's favorite films.
Tho I admit young rob Taylor is def better than old rob Taylor.
if it were anyone else, she’d be pushed to the side in favor of the three men and their relationship, or hated for 'breaking them up' - but she does none of these things. So that portion falls flat and becomes almost meaningless in the mix.
Erich Maria Remarque’s unstable Berlin, adapted by F. Scott Fitzgerald, rewritten….
NeverTooEarlyMP 4,925 films 7,248 443 Edit. Three Comrades is a 1938 drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. Source: bazin.yale.edu/, Ah, the first world war.
The story is quite meh and muted, but somehow Sullavan managed to hold my interest through it all. "), but was less impressed with Taylor ("who is good occasionally but more often is merely acceptable"). Look at those names. Really wish the tuberculosis diagnosis wasn't right in the mini-synopsis ; I can only imagine what a wrench it would be to learn mid-film that Patricia's hesitancy to commit to Erich wasn't due to promiscuity or indecisiveness (the former of which still momentarily crossed my mind for a split second anyway) but rather self-awareness of her inevitable fate and reluctancy to put him through that pain and suffering. This…, Shawn Stubbs 1,291 films 1,516 75 Edit. So was FrancHOT Tone and Robert Young (who is more cute than handsome). Three German soldiers, WWI survivors, return to civilian life facing an uncertain future.