The Mortal Storm (1940)
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Synopsis:
As the storm of Nazism gathers over Germany, a simple Bavarian family is split along political lines and a family friend finds himself implicated in the outcome.
Review:
What it loses in conviction this film gains in value-for-money melodrama, with some Nazis you really loathe and some good folks who are oh-so wholesome. An entertaining package of romantic tragedy and excitement, with perhaps just a few too many paintings and models in the production. One of the rare films of its day to have a silent end credit sequence.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Synopsis:
As the storm of Nazism gathers over Germany, a simple Bavarian family is split along political lines and a family friend finds himself implicated in the outcome.
Review:
What it loses in conviction this film gains in value-for-money melodrama, with some Nazis you really loathe and some good folks who are oh-so wholesome. An entertaining package of romantic tragedy and excitement, with perhaps just a few too many paintings and models in the production. One of the rare films of its day to have a silent end credit sequence.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Synopsis:
As the storm of Nazism gathers over Germany, a simple Bavarian family is split along political lines and a family friend finds himself implicated in the outcome.
Review:
What it loses in conviction this film gains in value-for-money melodrama, with some Nazis you really loathe and some good folks who are oh-so wholesome. An entertaining package of romantic tragedy and excitement, with perhaps just a few too many paintings and models in the production. One of the rare films of its day to have a silent end credit sequence.