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Watched "Three Comrades," a 1938 movie set in Germany post WWI where three former pilots (Robert Young, Robert Taylor, and Franchot Tone) try to rebuild their lives after the war - they own a garage and do repairs and taxi service. Taylor meets and falls in love with Maragaret Sullavan - a destitute former aristrocrat - only to find out after marrying her that she has Tuberculosis. All three men are supportive and try to raise money for her necessary trip to the sanitarium.
This all rolls out slowly while political and social events of Germany in the '20s come in and out of the story, but never fully take over as it remains, basically, a love story. The movie works if you are in the mood for an, overall, slow, nicely filmed, love story that does adumbrate the coming political violence that German eventually experienced. I like all the actors, was in the mood for a not challenging film and enjoyed it, but recognize its limitations. A much better movie that covers some of the same material and is set about a decade later in a Germany like state is "Mortal Storm,' one of my favorite not-famous movies.
This all rolls out slowly while political and social events of Germany in the '20s come in and out of the story, but never fully take over as it remains, basically, a love story. The movie works if you are in the mood for an, overall, slow, nicely filmed, love story that does adumbrate the coming political violence that German eventually experienced. I like all the actors, was in the mood for a not challenging film and enjoyed it, but recognize its limitations. A much better movie that covers some of the same material and is set about a decade later in a Germany like state is "Mortal Storm,' one of my favorite not-famous movies.
