Arch of Triumph

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Arch of Triumph


Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance, War
Release Year: 1948
Country: USA
Runtime: 120
Rating: 6.5 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Lewis Milestone
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

  • The story of an outcast and a killer!


    • Writing by: Erich Maria Remarque - (novel "Arc de triomphe")
    Lewis Milestone - (writer) and
    Harry Brown - (writer)
    Irwin Shaw - uncredited

    Produced by: Otto Klement - associate producer
    David Lewis - producer
    Charles Einfeld - executive producer (uncredited)
    David L. Loew - executive producer (uncredited)
    Joseph Henry Steele - assistant producer (uncredited)

    Cast: Ingrid Bergman - Joan Madou
    Charles Boyer - Dr. Ravic
    Charles Laughton - Ivon Haake
    Louis Calhern - Col. Boris Morosov
    Ruth Warrick - Kate Bergstroem
    Roman Bohnen - Dr. Veber
    J. Edward Bromberg - Hotel manager at the Verdun
    Ruth Nelson - Madame Fessier
    Stephen Bekassy - Alex
    Curt Bois - Tattooed waiter
    Art Smith - Inspector

    Music: Louis Gruenberg
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    Plot Outline: Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
    Plot: In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lovers sudden death. Against Ravics better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day war is declared.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
     Original concept of "Latin Dragon" created by Fabian Carrillo

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Anachronisms: Although the story seems to be taking place in the era of buckboards, stagecoaches, oil lamps, and primitive wall telephones, Marion Shilling, the leading lady, as well as all the other women visible in the film, wears 1935 fashions and hairstyles.

    Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • Irwin Shaw spent five months writing a screenplay, but then quit when director Lewis Milestone wanted him to add a love story. Milestone rewrote the script, which was preferred by the studio and Ingrid Bergman.
    • MPAA chief Joseph Breen made the studio tone down the excessive violence in the script. The scene in which Ravic kills Haake also included him stuffing him in the trunk, stripping him naked, burying him and burning his clothes, all eventually cut from the film. Breen also objected to the murder going unpunished, but later rationalized it as an act of war, since it was committed on the eve of the outbreak of WWII.
    • During filming in Paris, the government drained the Seine to remove live bombs and inspect a bridges foundation.



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