Conquest
"Conquest" vividly recreates one of the most celebrated romances in history: the ill-fated love affair between Polish countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo) and the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer).
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 15, 2010
- Originally Released: 1937
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Greta Garbo & Charles Boyer | |
| Performer: | Leif Erickson, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, May Whitty, C. Henry Gordon, Maria Ouspenskaya & Claude Gillingwater | |
| Directed by | Clarence Brown | |
| Edited by | Tom Held | |
| Screenwriting by | Samuel Hoffenstein, Salka Viertel & S.N. Behrman | |
| Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
| Produced by | Bernard Hyman | |
| Director of Photography: | Karl Freund |
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Directed by Clarence Brown, the film has one of the most notable scripts to come out of Hollywood in many a month. However, had it not been for the magnificent performance of Charles Boyer as Napoleon we fear the whole might have sagged badly.
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California Eagle
Rating: B --
Though not one of Grabo's best film, the historical romance about Napoleon and Polish Countess Walewska is made in the classy middlebrow mode of MGM in the 1930s. Boyer received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Major credit goes to Clarence Brown for direction.
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Variety
The story veers towards the melodramatic, but the period trimmings -- from the gorgeous costumes (which really come into their own during the ballroom set piece) to the richly detailed set design -- quite compensate for any romantic cliché.
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Film4
Conquest has all the magnificence you might expect of a film that combines the life of Napoleon, the art of Garbo, and the fabulous production resources of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Maclean's Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
The seventh and final collaboration between Greta Garbo and her favorite director Clarence Brown, Conquest vividly recreates one of the most celebrated romances in history: the ill-fated love affair between Polish countess Marie Walewska (Garbo) and the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer in the first of his three career Oscar-nominated performances). Featuring lavish sets, stunning costumes and a dazzling array of historical reenactments, Conquest took five months to film at a then-staggering cost of $3 million. The chemistry between Garbo and Boyer is electric, resulting in a poignant love story that's lost none of its power to conquer the attention of movie lovers across the generations.
Product Description:
This lavish epic centers on the romance between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Polish Countess Marie Walewska. An expensive flop despite good performances. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Charles Boyer, Best Interior Decoration.
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