Regie:
King VidorKamera:
Harold RossonBesetzung:
Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally, Mary McLeod, Rudolf Myzet, Charles Irwin, Kay Medford, Paul Porcasi, Frank Faylen (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been covered in The Big Parade, while Wheat was dispensed with in Our Daily Bread). Two years in production, the film cost nearly $3 million-little of which actually shows up on screen due to heavy post-production editing and rearranging of scenes. Brian Donlevy stars as immigrant laborer Steve Dangon, who becomes convinced early on that the only way he'll get anywhere in life is to accumulate huge sums of money. He takes a job in a midwestern steel mill, calculatedly working his way up the ladder from foreman to owner of an auto manufacturing firm. Though he regards himself as a "man of the people", Dangon resists the efforts of his workers to form a union.--even when his son Teddy (Horace McNally) is won over to the workers' point of view. A bitter three-month strike forces Dangon's board of directors to give in to the workers' wishes Disillusioned, Dangon retires from his business, but returns to work determined to switch over to the manufacture of airplanes when WW2 creates a demand for defense products. The "documentary" aspects of the story are far more compelling that the dramatic passages, with Donlevy's performance vacillating from strong to so-so. Minus any real star names (the leading lady is MGM contractee Ann Richards, a graduate of short subjects), An American Romance flopped at the box office, and Vidor in later years tended to dismiss the film as a misfire, severly damaged by studio tampering. (Verleiher-Text)
(mehr)Besetzung
Joseph Crehan
USA
Beste Filme:
Love Crazy (1941)
Das Urteil von Nürnberg (1961)
Die wilden Zwanziger (1939)
Howard Freeman
USA
Beste Filme:
Brief einer Unbekannten (1948)
Madame Curie (1943)
Rächer der Unterwelt (1946)
Dell Henderson
Kanada
Beste Filme:
Laurel & Hardy im Flegelalter (1965) - Arch.
Ein Mensch der Masse (1928)
Dick und Doof - Spuk im Jenseits (1936)
Jack Mulhall
USA
Beste Filme:
Love Crazy (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Australien
Beste Filme:
Du sollst mein Glücksstern sein (1952)
Rampenlicht (1952)
Wer den Wind sät (1960)
Ray Teal
USA
Beste Filme:
Die besten Jahre unseres Lebens (1946)
Das Urteil von Nürnberg (1961)
Reporter des Satans (1951)
Charles Wagenheim
USA
Beste Filme:
Die Heilige von Fatima (1952)
Wer den Wind sät (1960)
Monsieur Verdoux - Der Frauenmörder von Paris (1947)
Dick Wessel
USA
Beste Filme:
Blinde Wut (1936)
Die wilden Zwanziger (1939)
Der Narr und die Dirne (1945)
Dick Elliott
USA
Beste Filme:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (Serie)
Ist das Leben nicht schön? (1946)
Mr. Smith geht nach Washington (1939)
Jack Chefe
Russisches Kaiserreich
Beste Filme:
Die Heilige von Fatima (1952)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Alles über Eva (1950)
Waclaw Rekwart
Polen
Beste Filme:
Das Urteil von Nürnberg (1961)
Wer den Wind sät (1960)
Tote schlafen fest (1946)
Nolan Leary
Beste Filme:
Tänzer vom Broadway (1949)
Sprung in den Tod (1949)
Osterspaziergang (1948)
Ethan Laidlaw
USA
Beste Filme:
Wer die Nachtigall stört (1962)
Pressure Point (1962)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Emmett Vogan
USA
Beste Filme:
Love Crazy (1941)
Der große Edison (1940)
Der Narr und die Dirne (1945)
George Magrill
Beste Filme:
Die Heilige von Fatima (1952)
Love Crazy (1941)
Frau ohne Gewissen (1944)
Wilbur Mack
USA
Beste Filme:
Ist das Leben nicht schön? (1946)
Die besten Jahre unseres Lebens (1946)
Zeugin der Anklage (1957)
William Haade
USA
Beste Filme:
Unterwegs nach Murmansk (1943)
Piraten im Karibischen Meer (1942)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Billy Engle
Österreich-Ungarn
Beste Filme:
Die besten Jahre unseres Lebens (1946)
Es geschah in einer Nacht (1934)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Robert Middlemass
USA
Beste Filme:
Mr. Smith geht nach Washington (1939)
Die Marx Brothers: Ein Tag beim Rennen (1937)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Harry Semels
USA
Beste Filme:
Der Große Diktator (1940)
Sonnenaufgang (1927)
Es geschah in einer Nacht (1934)