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starring: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenndirected by: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790747118
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0790747111
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sales Rank: 11382
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 1936
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Description:
Film adaptation of Hervey Allen's bestselling novel of a young man with a tragic past who grows up carrying out adventures across 19th-century Europe, Cuba and Africa.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a great curiosity
whenever i watch 'anthony adverse' on television, i wonder why warner brothers sought to film it.
for the many things that are huge advantages in this film, it boasts equally large disavantages.
for its list of advantages, one has to start with olivia de havilland. her part is woefully small, yet knowing it would be a prestige picture (?), bette davis supposedly wanted it. but davis was greedy. if jack warner had bought the rights to 'the hairy ape' she would have wanted ... Read More
Rating: - 30 Minutes too long
This is generally a mediocre movie based, I presume, on a mediocre book. At first I thought that it seemed a lot like an Alexander Dumas type of plot but it got too side-tracked by a series of scenes in Havana and Africa. I suspect the book may have laid out those events in a more meaningful manner but the movie certainly compressed into irrelevence. Better to have jetisonned the segment in Africa. After all, a voyage to the New World and back after taking care of business would have been enough ... Read More
Rating:  - Intriguing historical romance with miscast March in the lead...
Surely, the studio that had Errol Flynn under contract could have chosen a more dashing romantic lead for ANTHONY ADVERSE.
As it is, Fredric March, usually such a fine actor, was unable to give more than a leaden performance in the title role. He has never appeared less enthusiastic and does a completely uninspired job as the hero. Sad to say, there are no sparks between March and de Havilland (as Angela)--and furthermore, he seems too old for the role despite clever make-up attempts to ... Read More
Rating:  - Entertaining Adventure Film
Engrossing tale of an orphaned boy who grows into manhood, played by Fredric March (Anthony Adverse), without knowing his real origins, and all the adventures he has to go through, before finding "himself", what truly matters in life and what is worth fighting for...one's morals, which cannot be "traded" for power or money...all this he learns thanks to two priests: Father Xavier (Henry O'Neill) who raises him from a baby until he turns 10 years old; Father Francois (Pedro de Córdoba), a clergyman who ... Read More
Rating: - Adventure and Romance
ANTHONY ADVERSE is a good movie with lots of adventure and romance. It has a strong cast boasting some of the best actors from the pre-World War II era such as Fredric March, Olivia de Haviland, Claude Rains, Louis Hayward and Akim Tamiroff. Much is said about the miscasting of Fredric March but he looks suitable enough to me in the role of Anthony Adverse.
Gale Sondergaard collected an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. The film also won Oscars for Cinematography, Score and Editing as well as ... Read More
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