Robert Taylor Actor

Three Comrades (1938) is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Tue, January 20, 2015 03:45 AM est. Closed captioned.  NOTE*:A TCM programming day begins at 6:00 am EST on the calendar day listed and runs to 5:59 am EST in the morning on the next day. Hours listed at 12:00 am to 5:59am EST in your reminder will be shown on the NEXT calendar day.

Margaret Sullavan, Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young in “Three Comrades.”

New York Times Review (summary):  Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of  F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set  in Germany in the years just following World War I, the film stars Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young as three battle-weary, thoroughly disillusioned returning soldiers. The three friends pool their savings and open an auto-repair shop, and it is this that brings them in contact with wealthy motorist Lionel Atwill–and with Atwill’s lovely travelling companion Margaret Sullavan.  Taylor begins a romance with Sullavan, who soon joins the three comrades, making the group a jovial, fun-seeking foursome Though Sullavan suffers from tuberculosis (her shady past is only alluded to), she is encouraged by her male companions to fully enjoy what is left of her life. This becomes increasingly difficult when one of the comrades, Young, is killed during a political riot (it’s a Nazi riot, though not so-labelled by ever-careful MGM). In the end, the four comrades are only two in number, with nothing but memories to see them through the cataclysmic years to come. Despite its Hollywoodized bowdlerization of the Remarque original, Three Comrades remains a poignant, haunting experience. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi