Victory

Victory (1940)

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

Date of release
1940-12-21
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Adventure
Director
John Cromwell

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Victory

Victory is a 1940 American adventure film directed by John Cromwell and starring Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke and Betty Field. It was based on the popular 1915 novel by Joseph Conrad. On the eve of the American entry into World War II, Conrad's story of a hermit on an island invaded by thugs was refashioned into a call for intervention in the war in Europe at the height of American isolationism.

Production

Paramount owned the film rights to Joseph Conrad's novel and filmed the story in 1919 as Victory and again in 1930 as Dangerous Paradise.

In July 1939, it was reported that Marc Connelly was writing a script for a film to be produced by William Le Baron and possibly starring John Howard. Paramount's wished to build Howard, who had been starring in the studio's Bulldog Drummond films, into a star. By November, John L. Balderstone was working on the script. Anthony Veillier was named producer and John Cromwell was hired as the director.

Filming began in May 1940 and was finished by early July.

Shortly after filming was completed, Paramount was reportedly considering a biopic of Conrad to be played by March, but no film resulted.

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