Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen. The plot of the epic costume drama follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis, and Denis Moore. After he learns of his wife's affair, Don Luis takes her away but Denis tracks them down at an inn, where Don Luis kills him in a duel of swords. Months later Maria dies giving... birth to her son at a chalet in the Alps. Don Luis leaves the infant at a convent near Leghorn, Italy, and lies to Maria's father, wealthy merchant John Bonnyfeather, telling him that the infant is also dead. Ten years later, completely by coincidence, the child is apprenticed to Bonnyfeather, his real grandfather, who discovers his relationship to the boy but keeps it a secret from him. He gives the boy the surname Adverse in acknowledgement of the difficult life he has led.
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| Release date: | August 26, 1936 |
| Directed by: | Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 141 Minutes |
| Editor: | Ralph Dawson |
| Music by: | Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| Cinematography: | Tony Gaudio |
| Screenplay by: | Sheridan Gibney, Milton Krims |
| Adapted from: | Anthony Adverse |
| Genre: | Adventure |