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	Three Comrades (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three Comrades is a 1938 film which tells the story of the friendship of three young German soldiers following World War I.
		from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque.
		It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Margaret Sullavan).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Comrades_(movie) (109 words)

	Amnesty.nl - Amnesty International filmfestival
		Ramzan is working for Grozny Television, and has been filming politicians, rebels and ordinary people since the nineteen eighties, when they begin to realize to their astonishment that they are getting involved in a war.
		From the window he is filming the tanks rolling in and the destruction of his native city.
		He is the only one of the three friends who survives the war and the total destruction of the city.
	www.amnesty.nl /filmfestival/RI-FF_en_0010.shtml (178 words)

	film comment magazine
		He had filmed the streets before, and perhaps decided that the only way to show supposedly real life was as an abstraction, the better to focus on the transcendent reality of love during each step of its unfolding.
		If his pre-Code films are all about the discovery of love and its acknowledgment, the removal of premarital sex and extended physical intimacy as a possibility refined his focus to the metaphysical certainty at the core of love.
		In the Borzage film Crawford's solitude as she mounts the stairs of her tenement building or rides the El with her resentful, indifferent husband (Alan Curtis) is sad but bearable because she has located a wondrous certainty within herself.
	www.klaxo.net /hofc/other/sanctum.htm (3966 words)

	Three Comrades Synopsis - Moviefone
		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.
		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.
	movies.aol.com /movie/three-comrades/4665/synopsis (222 words)

	Anti-Fascism in Soft Focus?
		While Borzage's films are not examples of the Popular Front anti-fascism that we usually associate with the late 1930s, they illuminate a different strain of American anti-fascism that has often been overlooked in our understandings of the 1930s.
		Film critic Andrew Sarris, a great admirer of Borzage's, dismissed the film's objections to Nazism as "peculiar." For Sarris, and a number of other critics, Nazism simply functions as the film's source of conflict; Borzage's real interest, the argument goes, is in the transcendent power of love.
		Film historian Lawrence Quirk suggests that Borzage was first suggested for the project by the film's eventual star, Margaret Sullavan, who had to plead with Laemmle to make the film in the first place.
	epsilon3.georgetown.edu /~coventrm/asa2001/panel3/alpers.html (9018 words)

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		Indeed, while the film remained quite true to the novel in most respects, those alterations that it did introduce served to draw much starker contrasts between the Pinnebergs' life and the life of sociopolitical involvement.
		At the end of the film, Hans, desperate for money to allow Lämmchen to give birth in a hospital, once again encounters the Communist we met in the opening sequence (it is his third appearance in the film).
		The three title characters represent three possible reactions to post-war disillusionment: Gottfried (Robert Young) is a political idealist and activist; Otto (Franchot Tone) tries to succeed in business as an auto repairman, though his true love is his sportscar, Baby; and Erich (Robert Taylor) is an aimless romantic.
	web.uct.ac.za /conferences/filmhistorynow/papers/balpers.doc (3294 words)

	Abilene Reporter News: SHNS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Wallach figures prominently in the new scenes, including one in which Tuco solicits the help of three comrades but finds only a simmering cauldron filled with potatoes in their cave hideout.
		Actors would speak in their native language and then, once filming was complete, Leone would supervise recording sessions in which all the lines were dubbed.
		Film critic Roger Ebert, who would have been an ideal co-commentator, instead contributes a lovely essay about the film for the set's eight-page booklet.
	www.texnews.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=GOODBADUGLY-DVD-05-18-04&cat=LC (686 words)

	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
		The film was originally started as a silent film, but was eventually released with sound (there is a silent version, but it is the sound version without the soundtrack and with title cards inserted).
		The film was initially released with a Vitaphone (sound on disc) soundtrack, so there was no optical soundtrack and therefore the Academy Ratio of 1.37:1 was not used.
		Still, I doubt whether the film has looked this good in decades, and is infinitely better than the VHS edition that was released in Australia in the 1980s.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5846 (1612 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
		The spirit of mutual sacrifice and the comradeship of the three men and the girl, make up the tapestry of this famous and unforgettable novel. The year is 1928.
		For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them.
		Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can never have imagined.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449912423 (160 words)

	Breaking News (2004)
		Films like Love For All Seasons and even the award-winning Running on Karma don't usually get international fans salivating, and this even goes for the Hong Kong Cinema-faithful who'll watch everything that To directs - and who probably gnash their teeth over the latest Johnnie To-Sammi Cheng romantic laffer.
		The cops' stakeout goes bust, leading to a firefight and finally a media-covered sequence of an average beat cop actually raising his hands and surrendering to Yuan and his three comrades.
		Also problematic is the film's casting, which is totally odd for a Johnnie To film.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/breaking_news.htm (1248 words)

	Frank Borzage
		Borzage's tendency in filming the face is one which aims towards an effect of slight immobility, the features not so much in motion and continually connoting thought as they are poised between movement and stasis, between the expression of emotion and the withdrawal of it.
		In particular, the film draws a strong link between Pitts's repeated gesture of placing her hand to her mouth at moments of emotional crisis and the same gesture being performed by her illegitimate daughter who is otherwise unaware that Pitts is her real mother.
		Two lives spent climbing three flights of stairs,” is James Dunn's hypothetical description of life and death in a tenement in Bad Girl, a line Dunn utters as he and Sally Eilers are standing on the stairs in the lobby of her tenement.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/borzage.html (5594 words)

	1938 Chronicle
		Among the year's better films were Boys Town, The Citadel, Of Human Hearts, Marie Antoinette, Three Comrades, Pygmalion, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Algiers, Holiday, Test Pilot, Sing You Sinners, and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
		The collective production, financed by the French trade unions, is "the film of the union of the French nation against a minority of exploiters, the film of the rights of man and of the citizen." In commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Revolution, Renoir is celebrating, at the same time, the Popular Front.
		Three men have had a hand in the direction of Pygmalion, Howard, Anthony Asquith and the volatile Central European, Gabriel Pascal, whom Shaw has entrusted with the filming of his plays.
	theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1938c.htm (4463 words)

	Joe Sixpack's Film Blog: December, 2002
		The film's title refers less to biological evolution than intellectual, and specifically to the unique problems of writing a film script (or any work of art) based on a someone else's story.
		Nazism is dealt with somewhat elliptically; one of the three friends is a left-wing idealist and runs afoul of a right-wing mob, leaving the other two to pick up the pieces.
		By the time this film came out, walking away from the mistakes of the past was hardly an option: the spectre of war had already reared again, and was hardly going to let these young men out of its clutches.
	www.slipcue.com /film/2002/filmblog02_12b.html (1678 words)

	Hell on Frisco Bay
		A Silent Film Weekend, Part II This is the second and final part of my 2006 Silent Film Festival coverage.
		It's ironic that, though this film's 1930 remake is the only talking picture Chaney was able to complete before his death of throat cancer, sound is something of a liability to the story.
		I'm reminded again why, once you've enjoyed 35mm prints of these films on the Castro Theatre's towering screen with live musical accompaniment by some of the best in the business and a very appreciative audience, it's hard to be satisfied by a home video silent film experience.
	hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com (4108 words)

	Cultural Solutions to Political Problems: Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I will suggest that Borzage's films are more political, and their politics less peculiar, than they are often taken to be.
		While Borzage's films are not examples of the Popular Front anti-fascism that we usually associate with the late 1930s, they in fact illuminate a different strain of American anti-fascism that has often been overlooked in our understandings of the 1930s.
		These themes would be particularly important in Hollywood's anti-fascist films, both because they could be framed as relatively uncontroversial and because they nicely fit the classical Hollywood cinema's mode of storytelling, and particularly Borzage's preferred genre, the melodrama.
	epsilon3.georgetown.edu /~coventrm/asa2001/panel3/abstracts.html (167 words)

	vhs video: comrades (showdown hopalong)
		This is a poignant movie adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel about three life-long friends in post World War I Germany and beautifully filmed by cinematographer and four-time Oscar winner Joseph Ruttenberg ("Waterloo Bridge", "The Philadelphia Story").
		And when Boris cleares a 20 foot fense to catch a foul ball and falls 30 feet to the concrete and still holds on to the ball.
		Lyle Alzado in perhaps his last movie appearance does a good job as a Soviet General and the lines in the movie and hard nosed acting of Lance Henriksen are great.
	www.very-clever.com /vhs/comrades (298 words)

	village voice > film > Frank Borzage, Hollywood Romantic by Jessica Winter
		Love does not conquer all in the films of Frank Borzage, but it is the sole value capable of transcending the indignities of an ugly world.
		(1934) and Three Comrades (1938), while in The Mortal Storm (1940), a fusion of melodrama and propaganda with Sullavan and James Stewart, the Nazi rise to power divides a German family along ideological lines.
		But his films' emotional power and visual effulgence remain undimmed—7th Heaven, for one, is bold enough to deliver a bona fide miracle for its finale.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0628,winter,73816,20.html (376 words)

	girish: Funny Ha Ha
		And yet, the most interesting aspect of this film for me is that it is not a documentary.
		It is not an autobiographical film, the director has said, but instead a personal film.
		In fact, the director shot the film in 16 mm rather than video partly because film is inherently a more painterly medium than video and thus his movie will less likely be confused as an improvisationally-based "reality show".
	www.girishshambu.com /blog/2005/06/funny-ha-ha.html (417 words)

	d+kaz . News
		Those who read the essay and find it interesting may wish to read my reviews of the two films mentioned at the end of the article, Café Lumiére, which is more like an essay than a review, and the more recently released, and more review-like, Three Times.
		Other films they are showing, which I have reviewed and recommend, are Bashing (Kobayashi), The Intruder (Denis), The Sun (Sokurov), Funny Ha Ha (Bujalski), Memories of Murder, and two by Hou Hsiou-hsien, Café Lumiére and his most recent, Three Times.
		I don't normally post news about single, contemporary films being released, and this film is no grand masterpiece warrenting a stop-the-presses response, but Eric Rohmer's Triple Agent is a very good film, and the kind of subtle art-house film that distributors no longer have interest in spreading around, despite the Rohmer name.
	www.d-kaz.com /news.php (1052 words)

	The Swine who Rewrote F. Scott Fitzgerald: Joseph L. Mankiewicz as Producer
		Thus even though many Metro films sink indistinguishably into the Studio's prosaic identity, and even though it was precisely during Mankiewicz's tenure that both Mayer's power and the industry's self-censorship were at their most repressive, nonetheless determined moviemakers were able occasionally to make movies that were far more theirs than Metro's.
		In Three Comrades there is never any doubt that she is “performing” – an ersatz display appropriately applauded with an Oscar nomination, and followed a year later by an Oscar award to Spencer Tracy at his hammiest, as a Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937).
		But in Three Comrades, the game is no longer Borzage's, but Mankiewicz's, who was always there on the set, perpetually helpful, and Sullavan is merely an actress, devouring scenes with in-your-face calculation, milking a small repertoire of synthetic poses, stage tricks, and robotic gestures.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/28/joseph_mankiewicz.html (2802 words)

	Great Film Writers
		Of course, Chandler devotees claim they can clearly see the novelist's imprint on the final film but the ironic part is that every trace of the screenwriter's original work was removed by Hitchcock.
		Unfortunately, Walker, who had just recovered from a nervous breakdown prior to filming Strangers on a Train, would die just a year later during the filming of My Son John (1952), a rabid anticommunist melodrama that ended up using some outtake footage of Walker in Strangers on a Train to fill in some continuity gaps.
		But about one thing, there was unanimity: Margaret Sullavan's poignant performance as the doomed girl beloved by the three comrades was magnificent.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /DIRECTOR_MONTH/01/02/novelists.htm (1596 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Margaret Sullavan and the Art of Dying
		The film is too short, and ends abruptly, but Vidor makes it a rich, troubling movie, especially in the ways it deals with the elation and confusion of its freed fl characters, something that does not come up in Gone with the Wind (1939).
		Sullavan is more than the mascot of the Three Comrades; she's the emblem of a world on the brink of war, lovely and marked for destruction.
		The film is vague about their arrangement, but Sullavan finds the dignity in it (and the angry stoicism).
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /49/sullavan.htm (4352 words)

	100 Greatest Love Stories
		The ballot of 400 nominated films (below) were the basis for the selected films, according to the following criteria:
		Feature Length Fiction Film - The film must be in narrative format, typically over 60 minutes in length.
		American Film - The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or production elements from the United States.
	www.filmsite.org /afi100loves2.html (241 words)

	The Keystone - Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
		The opening scene is the Quidditch World Cup in which we see our three comrades along with the debut of Robert Pattinson as the film's heartthrob Cedric Diggory.
		The first half-hour of the film only showcases the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the excessive violence.
		One of the more notable scenes in the film is during the Yule Ball where Newell and his crew create an ice palace for the student dance.
	keystoneonline.com /story.asp?Art_id=1515 (895 words)

	Hell on Frisco Bay: July and August at the PFA
		The Mizoguchi films are probably the seven he is best known for in the West.
		And the Gaynor retro is just as full with unfamiliar films to me; aside from her Murnau and Borzage films, the only ones I've seen are a pair of William Wellman non-masterpieces that are a hoot nonetheless: Small Town Girl (Aug. 4) and the original a Star is Born (Aug. 5).
		All the silent films in the Gaynor series will be accompanied by Judith Rosenberg on piano (she'll also be playing for a selection of Winsor McCay animations August 26).
	hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com /2006/06/july-and-august-at-pfa.html (1617 words)

	Classic Film Guide
		One of the best 10 films of 1938 (according to The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made), and one which I enjoyed thoroughly when I saw it on TCM.
		Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone, and Robert Young are the three men who all love Margaret Sullavan (who received her only Oscar nomination) in their own way.
		The three leads (Taylor, Tone, & Young) were soldiers for Germany in World War I and, now that it's over, they become auto mechanics.
	www.classicfilmguide.com /index.php?s=essential&item=250 (207 words)

	The social problem film by Jeremy Butler
		The Hollywood social problem film is repeatedly criticized for displacing general "politics" into personal "melodrama." Or, better, politics and sentiment/ melodrama are seen as opposite poles, occasionally conflicting with one another.
		In contrast, the proper problem film's "function is to present a problem that calls for circumscribed change rather than to call into question some of the deeper values at the foundation of society."(p.
		Assigning terms such as "the first" or "sole" to genre films is an unnecessary exercise and a scholastically dangerous one.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC28folder/SocialProbFilm.html (2210 words)

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