Conquest Movie Review 1937

Garbo, as the Polish countess Marie Walewska, tries to persuade Napoleon (Boyer) to free her native Poland from the Russian Tsar. Garbo, Boyer, and Ouspenskaya are outstanding, while the beautiful costumes and lavish production help, but the script is occasionally weak. A boxoffice flop in the U.S., which ended up costing MGM more than any movie it had made up until that time.

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Available on VHS
Running time 115 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Period Piece: 19th Century, Historical Drama

Cast

Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Leif Erickson, May Whitty, Maria Ouspenskaya, Vladimir Sokoloff, Scotty Beckett

Cinematography

Karl Freund

Director

Clarence Brown

Producer

MGM