Monday, September 17, 2012

Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse is a 1936 drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Edmund Gwenn, Fritz Leiber and Akim Tamiroff. Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote the music. It won several Academy Awards and was nominated for others.

With Claude Rains in it you know it's worth watching. Or maybe it's just that he's worth watching no matter how tedious and overlong the film might be.



Time Out says it "proved popular at the time but hasn't improved with age". Rotten Tomatoes gives it a pitiful score of 14%.

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