The Soldier and the Lady
The Soldier and the Lady | |
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Joseph H. August | |
Edited by | Frederic Knudtson |
Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Soldier and the Lady is the 1937 American
Plot
The Tsar sends courier Michael Strogoff to deliver vital information to Grand Duke Vladimir far away in Siberia. The Tartars, aided by renegade Ogareff, have risen up against the Russian Empire.
Cast
- Anton Walbrook as Michael Strogoff
- Elizabeth Allan as Nadia
- Akim Tamiroff as Ogareff
- Margot Grahame as Zangarra
- Fay Bainter as Strogoff's Mother
- Eric Blore as Blount
- Edward Brophy as Packer
- Paul Guilfoyle as Vasiley
- William Stack as Grand Duke
- Paul Harvey as Tsar
- Michael Visaroff as Innkeeper
Reception
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly positive review, claiming that this version of the film was a great cinematographic improvement of the 1926 classic directed by Ivan Mosjoukine. Comparing the film to a "dashing and open-air ... good Western" Greene found the film to be "motivated in the grand manner", and noted that although the film "remains incurably comic even in tragedy", it remains a "simple, passionate and certainly sensuous [film] like a poem for boys, and not a bad poem either."[2]
References
- ^ "The Soldier and the Lady: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
- ISBN 0192812866.)
External links
- The Soldier and the Lady at IMDb
- The Soldier and the Lady at the TCM Movie Database
- The Soldier and the Lady at AllMovie
- The Soldier and the Lady at the American Film Institute Catalog