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Three Faces West(Movie, 1940)

1h 19min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
Three Faces WestRating: 2.7/5 (with 55 votes)
Three Faces West is a 1940 American drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and Charles Coburn. The film, mainly set in North Dakota was one of a handful of overtly anti-Nazi films produced by Hollywood before American entry into World War II. Isolationists and Nazi sympathizers condemned other Hollywood movies for being pro-British "propaganda" or for "glorifying war", however Three Faces West was deliberately crafted to celebrate the pioneer spirit of America, and the determination of Americans to survive the dust bowl, and contrasted these values with the evils of Nazism, thus preventing isolationists and Nazi sympathizers from being able to criticize the film as they had criticized other anti-Nazi films during this period. Writing in the Journal of Austrian-American History, Jacqueline Vansant has argued that the film "takes a bold stand on contemporary issues through its Austri... ()
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About Three Faces West

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Oregon, North Dakota
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/03/1940
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Screenwriter: F. Hugh Herbert
Composer: Victor Young
Costume designer: Adele Palmer
Production Designer: John Victor Mackay
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:38200, Added: 03/10/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024