Crimson Romance
Feature film · 58 min · dir. David Howard
By John Bright who wrote "Public Enemy", "Union Depot", "The Crowd Roars", and collaborated on "She Done Him Wrong"
- War
- Action
- Drama
Synopsis
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- David Howard
- Writer
- Milton Krims
- Studio
- Mascot Pictures
- Released
- 1934-10-12
- Running time
- 58 minutes
Cast & crew
David Howard Director
Ben Lyon
Sari Maritza
Erich von Stroheim
Hardie Albright
James Bush
William Bakewell
Herman Bing
Bodil Rosing
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · A World War 1 Melodrama Overly Simplified · bobsluckycat · 2015-09-18
This is a well made and for Mascot Pictures an expensive project which I doubt ever made it's negative cost back. Nat Levine was making a ton of money in serials in the late 20's and early 30's but he wanted to make features. In 1933, 1934 and into and beyond the 1935 merger which brought Mascot together with Republic and Monogram, but with little success. This little picture is a melodrama about war with little of the war being shown and except for high flying action towards the end pretty much stays on the ground. The romance of the story is somewhat contrived. Ben Lyons as the lead is very…
