Three Comrades 06/14/25

Filmed in the high MGM style, this polished tragic romance stars Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young as Germans having a rough time in the 1920s Weimar Republic, while Margaret Sullavan’s disillusioned beauty succumbs to a dreaded Movie Disease. It is also a prime example of the negative effect of Hollywood’s Production Code. MGM wanted the name value of Erich Maria Remarque’s best seller, but not his message: conservative politics forbade any mention of (shhh!)   Nazis.   It’s still a very good movie, but it needs to be known that its content was changed to please a Nazi influencer. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
06/14/25