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Movie
Three Comrades
Synopsis
Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in Germany in the years just following World War I, the film stars Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young as three battle-weary, thoroughly disillusioned returning soldiers. The three friends pool their savings and open an auto-repair shop, and it is this that brings them in contact with wealthy motorist Lionel Atwill--and with Atwill's lovely travelling companion Margaret Sullavan. Taylor begins a romance with Sullavan, who soon joins the three comrades, making the group a jovial, fun-seeking foursome (this plot element bears traces of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, as well as the 1931 film The Last Flight). Though Sullavan suffers from tuberculosis (her shady past is only alluded to), she is encouraged by her male companions to fully enjoy what is left of her life. This becomes increasingly difficult when one of the comrades, Young, is killed during a political riot (it's a Nazi riot, though not so-labelled by ever-careful MGM). In the end, the four comrades are only two in number, with nothing but memories to see them through the cataclysmic years to come. Despite its Hollywoodized bowdlerization of the Remarque original, Three Comrades remains a poignant, haunting experience.
Cast
- Robert Taylor
- Margaret Sullavan
- Franchot Tone
- Robert Young
- Guy Kibbee
- Lionel Atwill
- Henry Hull
- Charles Grapewin
- George Zucco
- Charley Grapewin
- Monty Woolley
- Spencer Charters
- Sarah Padden
- Ferdinand Munier
- Donald Haines
- Morgan Wallace
- Ted Offenbecker
- Priscilla Lawson
- Esther Muir
- Walter Bonn
- Edward McWade
- Henry Brandon
- George Chandler
- Claire McDowell
- Marjorie Main
- Mitchell Lewis
- E. Alyn Warren
- Ricca Allen
- Roger Converse
- Jessie Arnold
- Barbara Bedford
- Alva Kellogg
- Norman Willis
- William Haade
- Leonard Penn
- Harvey Clark
- George Offerman Jr.
- George Offerman
- Francis X. Bushman Jr.
- Edwin B. Willis
- Joseph Ruttenberg
- Cedric Gibbons
- Edward E. Paramore Jr.
- Frank Sullivan
- Paul Groesse
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Erich Maria Remarque