Three Comrades

US (1938): Drama

Frank Borzage directs this MGM film about three German veterans of WWI (Franchot Tone, Robert Taylor, and Robert Young) who set up an auto business in a postwar Berlin suffocating in poverty and defeat. Determined to give their lives meaning, they build their business and Taylor weds high-spirited Margaret Sullavan, though they both know she will soon die of tuberculosis. When Young dies in a street skirmish, the dark cloud of Nazism looms larger on the horizon. Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, this was F. Scott Fitzgerald's only official screen credit, although he tried his hand in Hollywood for many years. He would later complain that even on this film, producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz re-wrote him. Powerful, ominous drama with Sullavan's best performance. (amctv.com)

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