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Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American epic historical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney draws elements of its plot from eight of the nine books in Hervey Allen's 1933 historical novel, Anthony Adverse.
Anthony Adverse es una épica película estadounidense de época de 1936, dirigida por Mervyn LeRoy y protagonizada por Fredric March y Olivia de Havilland.
The story follows the eponymous protagonist, Anthony Adverse, through several adventures around the world. This includes slave trading in Africa, his business dealings as a plantation owner in New Orleans, and his incarceration and eventual death in Mexico.
While Anthony was absent from the trading station, Father Francois was captured by a native witch doctor, Mnombibi, and crucified. Upon his return, Anthony found the priest pinioned to his own...
Anthony Adverse, historical novel by Hervey Allen, published in 1933. A long, rambling work set in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Napoleonic era, Anthony Adverse relates the many adventures of the eponymous hero. These include slave trading in Africa, his experiences as a businessman.
The climax of the novel has Anthony in Paris where he meets Napolean Bonaparte and embarks on a scheme to move Spanish gold out of Mexico for the immense profit of himself and his confederates. In the end, Anthony has a conversion of sorts and ends up in the New Mexico territory, then still a Spanish colony, where he dies in poverty among the ...
Anthony Adverse ★★½ 1936 March is a young man in the 19th century who searches for manhood across America and Mexico. He grows slowly as he battles foes, struggles against adversity and returns home to find his lover in this romantic swashbuckler.
