| The Soldier and the Lady | |
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| Directed by | George Nicholls, Jr. Edward Donahue (assistant) |
| Screenplay by | Mortimer Offner Anthony Veiller Anne Morrison Chapin |
| Based on | Michel Strogoff 1876 novel byJules Verne |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman Joseph Ermolieff (associate) |
| Starring | Anton Walbrook Elizabeth Allan Margot Grahame Akim Tamiroff Fay Bainter Eric Blore |
| Cinematography | Joseph H. August |
| Edited by | Frederic Knudtson |
| Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
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| 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 Americanadventure film version of the oft-produced 1876Jules Verne novel,Michel Strogoff. Produced byPandro S. Berman, he hired as his associate producer,Joseph Ermolieff. Ermolieff had produced two earlier versions of the film,Michel Strogoff in France, andThe Czar's Courier in Germany, both released in 1936. Both the earlier films had starred the German actor Adolf Wohlbrück. Berman also imported Wohlbrück, changing his name toAnton Walbrook to have him star in the American version. Other stars of the film wereElizabeth Allan,Margot Grahame,Akim Tamiroff,Fay Bainter andEric Blore. RKO Radio Pictures had purchased the rights to the French version of the movie, and used footage from that film in the American production. The film was released on April 9, 1937.
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.
Writing forNight 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 the1926 classic directed byIvan 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]
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