The second of three early anti-Nazi films made by Frank Borzage (including Little Man, What Now?, see May 20, and The Mortal Storm), Three Comrades is a romantic adaptation of a story by Erich Maria Remarque, scripted by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young star as three war-shattered German soldiers caught up in the turmoil of post-World War I Germany. Margaret Sullavan won the New York Critics Award for her portrayal of the bride who gallantly loves Taylor in the shadow of her losing struggle with tuberculosis. Though the downbeat storyline and setting hurt the film at the box office, Three Comrades was perceived by critics as one of the best films of the year, the New York Times calling it “magnificently directed, eloquently written” and Sullavan's performance “shimmering, almost unendurably lovely.” Today, it is essential to a reassessment of Borzage's work that is, as Andrew Sarris points out, “predicated not so much on the ideological implications of his images as on the force of his feelings...of the hauntingly sensitive figures of style to which we must at long last refer as Borzagian.”