Three Comrades (1938 film)

Three Comrades
Original film poster
Directed byFrank Borzage
Screenplay byF. Scott Fitzgerald
Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Based onThree Comrades
1937 novel
by Erich Maria Remarque
Produced byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
StarringRobert Taylor
Margaret Sullavan
Franchot Tone
Robert Young
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg
Edited byFrank Sullivan
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
Running time
100 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$839,000[1]
Box office$2,043,000[1][2]

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.

Three Comrades is story of comradery between young German soldiers after World War I, during the Weimar Republic and rise of Nazism.

The film stars Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone and Robert Young. Sullavan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Scott Eyman, Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer, Robson, 2005 p 277