Blockade (1938)A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage. Director:William Dieterle |
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Blockade (1938)A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage. Director:William Dieterle |
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Madeleine Carroll | ... |
Norma
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| Henry Fonda | ... |
Marco
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Leo Carrillo | ... |
Luis
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| John Halliday | ... |
Andre Gallinet
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Vladimir Sokoloff | ... |
Basil, Norma's Father
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Robert Warwick | ... |
General Vallejo
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| Reginald Denny | ... |
Edward Grant
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Peter Godfrey | ... |
Roderigo - Cafe Magician
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William B. Davidson | ... |
Commandant
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Katherine DeMille | ... |
Peasant Woman on Train
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Fred Kohler | ... |
Pietro
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Carlos De Valdez | ... |
Major del Rio
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Nick Thompson | ... |
Seppo
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George Houston | ... |
The Troubador
(as George Byron)
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Lupita Tovar | ... |
Palm Reader
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A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage. Written by Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
In the spring of 1936 in Castelmare, the peasants Marco (Henry Fonda) and Luis (Leo Carrillo) help the aristocratic Russian Norma (Madeleine Carroll) that had a car accident while driving to the house of her father Basil (Vladimir Sokoloff) and Marco falls in love with Norma.
Sooner the Spanish Civil War begins and Marco leads a group of peasants to defend Castelmare and he is assigned lieutenant of the rebels' army. Meanwhile, Basil and Norma are forced to spy for Andre Gallinet (John Halliday). Marco suspects of Basil and follows him to his room. When Basil reacts, Marco kills him in a shooting.
Meanwhile, Castelmare is under siege and without supplies, and Norma escapes from Marco. But she is blackmailed by Gallibet and forced to return to Castelmare with information about the ship that is bringing supplies for the population.
"Blockade" is a shallow and corny melodrama during the Spanish Civil War (17 July 1936 to 01 April 1939). The dull romance between Marco and Norma has no chemistry and the author uses a historical event that is happening in 1938 in a neutral position and no references. The final speech of Henry Fonda's character is one of the awfullest conclusions that I have ever seen in a classic. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Bloqueio" ("Blockade")