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Bookmark this pageAnthony Adverse (1936)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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From Time Out Film Guide
An early stab at the swashbuckler from Warner Brothers, which proved popular at the time but hasn't improved with age. A deluxe period production, adapted from Hervey Allen's doorstop novel about 'the adventures of a soul in quest of ultimate truth', it meanders along with its gallant hero through France, Africa, the Americas and countless contrivances, with little sense of discrimination or structure. Although there are plenty of welcome faces in the cast, March isn't one of them: he hasn't the dash or the zest of an adventurer, and the film quickly becomes arduous to sit through.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer: Henry Blanke
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Gale Sondergaard, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Louis Hayward, Akim Tamiroff full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 136 mins
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