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''The Mortal Storm'' (1940) is a drama film from MGM〔''Variety'' film review; June 12, 1940, page 14.〕〔''Harrison's Reports'' film review; June 22, 1940, page 98.〕 directed by Frank Borzage and starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. The film's theme is the impact upon a nation's population when the country becomes fascist. The supporting cast features Robert Young, Robert Stack, Frank Morgan, Dan Dailey, Ward Bond and Maria Ouspenskaya, ==Production background== ''The Mortal Storm'' was one of the few directly anti-Nazi Hollywood films released before the American entry into World War II in December 1941. The film stars James Stewart as a German who refuses to join the rest of his small Bavarian town in supporting Nazism. He falls in love with Freya Roth (Margaret Sullavan), the daughter of a Junker mother and a "non-Aryan" father. ''The Mortal Storm'' was the last movie Sullavan and Stewart made together. Freya and her father are implied to be Jews but the word "Jew" is never used, and they are only identified as "non-Aryans"; in addition, Freya's half brothers are all members of the Nazi Party. Though it is understood that the film is set in Germany, the name of the country is rarely mentioned except at the very beginning in a short text of introduction. MGM purposely did not mention the name of the country or the religion of Freya's family because of the large German market for its films, but it was to no avail—the movie infuriated the Nazi government and it led to all MGM films being banned in Germany. The supporting cast features Robert Young (a major romantic lead in many Hollywood films and later Jim Anderson on television's ''Father Knows Best'', and the title role in ''Marcus Welby, MD''), Robert Stack (''The Untouchables'', 1959–63), Frank Morgan (Professor Marvel and the Wizard in ''The Wizard of Oz'' the previous year), Dan Dailey, Ward Bond (John Wayne's co-star in 23 films, one of director John Ford's favorite ensemble actors, and later the lead in the television series ''Wagon Train''), Maria Ouspenskaya, William T. Orr, and Bonita Granville, who was the first actress to play Nancy Drew onscreen. The film is based on the 1938 novel ''The Mortal Storm'' by the British writer Phyllis Bottome. Mountain snow scenes were filmed at Salt Lake City, Utah and Sun Valley, Idaho.〔(Turner Classic Movies: The Mortal Storm (notes) )〕 The score by award winning composer Bronislau Kaper and by Eugene Zador (who normally orchestrated) was not credited to them, but rather a pseudonym, "Edward Kane". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mortal Storm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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