Regie:
King VidorCamera:
Harold RossonActeurs:
Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally, Mary McLeod, Rudolf Myzet, Charles Irwin, Kay Medford, Paul Porcasi, Frank Faylen (meer)Samenvattingen(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. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Brian Donlevy
Ierland
Beste films:
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Ann Richards
Australië
Beste films:
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Random Harvest (1942)
Walter Abel
USA
Beste films:
Fury (1936)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Holiday Inn (1942)
John Qualen
Canada
Beste films:
Een hoekje van de hemel (1965)
Casablanca (1942)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Stephen McNally
USA
Beste films:
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Winchester '73 (1950)
De meesters der vallei (1955)
Mary McLeod
Canada
Beste films:
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Bataan (1943)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Rudolf Myzet
Oostenrijk-Hongarije
Beste films:
Convooi naar Moermansk (1943)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
Jánošík (1921)
Charles Irwin
Ierland
Beste films:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Gevaarlijk spel (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Kay Medford
USA
Beste films:
Random Harvest (1942)
Funny Girl (1968)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Paul Porcasi
Italië
Beste films:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Frank Faylen
USA
Beste films:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Ernie Adams
USA
Beste films:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Charles Ray
USA
Beste films:
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Robin Hood (1922)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Mitchell Lewis
USA
Beste films:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Eddy Waller
USA
Beste films:
Woman on the Run (1950)
De druiven der gramschap (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Byron Foulger
USA
Beste films:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
William H. O'Brien
Australië
Beste films:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Earle Hodgins
USA
Beste films:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
East of Eden (1955)
Dale Van Sickel
USA
Beste films:
North by Northwest (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Edmund Breon
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Gaslight (1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)