Three Comrades
Three Comrades is a 1938 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque. It tells the story of the friendship of three young German soldiers following World War I, during the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism.
Plot
On the last day of World War I, November 11, 1918, three German fighter pilots - Erich Lohkamp, Otto Koster, and Gottfried Lenz - are having a final drink with their compatriots. They toast each other, expressing fatalistic attitudes about the future. With their only hope being in their friendship, the three comrades open a taxi and auto repair business and are barely able to eke out a living.
Awards
Cast
- Barbara Bedford
- Charley Grapewin
- Claire McDowell
- E. Alyn Warren
- Franchot Tone
- Frank Reicher
- George Chandler
- George Zucco
- Guy Kibbee
- Harold Miller
- Henry Brandon
- Henry Hull
- Lionel Atwill
- Margaret Sullavan
- Marjorie Main
- Mitchell Lewis
- Monty Woolley
- Robert Taylor
- Robert Young
- Sarah Padden
- Spencer Charters
- Stanley Andrews
More details
| author | Edward E. Paramore Jr. F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Germany |
| director | Frank Borzage |
| editor | Frank Sullivan |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | car race drink drive fight fighter pilots id impoverish last day luxury car on the beach one night shoot south america speak sugar daddy taunt teach than the think tuberculosis wait walk world war i |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress |
| producer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Loews Cineplex Entertainment |