Three Comrades
Three Comrades is a 1938 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque. The film stars Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone and Robert Young. Sullavan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Plot
On the last day of World War I, German fighter pilots Erich Lohkamp, Otto Koster and Gottfried Lenz express fatalistic attitudes about the future. They later open an auto-repair business but are barely able to earn 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 | deutsche mark drive fight fighter pilots impoverish kill last day mark on the beach rio rio de janeiro search social status south america teach tuberculosis 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 |