Tender Comrade
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tender Comrade |
| Original title | Tender Comrade |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edward Dmytryk |
| script | Dalton Trumbo |
| production | David Hempstead for RKO Radio Pictures |
| music | Leigh Harline |
| camera | Russell Metty |
| cut | Roland Gross |
| occupation | |
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Tender Comrade is a 1943 American romantic drama directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Ginger Rogers , Robert Ryan , Ruth Hussey and Kim Hunter . Edward Dmytryk directed the film. The film shows how women get together for economic reasons during the Second World War in the absence of their husbands.
The film premiered on December 29, 1943 in Los Angeles. The following year the film appeared regularly in US cinemas.
action
Jo Jones works at an aircraft factory during WWII and longs for the day she will finally see her husband Chris again. When Chris went to war overseas, the two had to say goodbye in pain at the train station. While Chris is doing his duty in the war, Jo tries to make ends meet with the other workers.
In order to be able to pay the rents, the women decide to get together. Due to the different characters, there are conflicts; tensions arise mainly because of the German immigrant Manya, who works as a caretaker in the factory. Jo learns that she is expecting a son, whom she names after his father Chris. When one of the men returns, the women are overjoyed, but Jo receives a telegram on the same day with the message that her husband Chris has been killed. She suppresses her grief and is happy with the others about the return of her husbands.
background
The film was later used by the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) to accuse screenwriter Dalton Trumbo of spreading communist propaganda. Trumbo was then blacklisted in Hollywood. At the end of the 1940s, director Edward Dmytryk was also targeted by the HUAC.
The title of the film refers to a line in Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "My Wife", which was first published in 1896 in Songs of Travel and Other Verses .
The film budget was $ 843,000.
Web links
- Tender Comrade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tender Comrade . In: NY Times . Retrieved May 5, 2011.
- ^ Tender Comrade (1943). Release info. In: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database, accessed August 4, 2017 .
- ^ Peter Hanson: Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel . McFarland, 2007, ISBN 0-7864-3246-2 , pp. 70-1.
- ^ Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p. 190.