The Adventures of Michael Strogoff (1937) EPIC SWASHBUCKLER

[@paulstark6818]

What a period of great movies this was a absolute classic plot and action was incredible thankyou ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ronmcgill9366]

A magnificent film! The costumes, the settings, but most of all Anton Walbrook. The side-plot with the two journalists adds to the dramatic contrast. The dancing before the torture sequence....

[@adrianovasconcelos2739]

This is the best rendition I have ever watched of the great Jules Verne novel, Michel Strogoff. Thank you for sharing

[@albertinirock4926]

The Golden Age of Cinema!

[@adrianovasconcelos2739]

This is the best rendition I have ever watched of the great novel by French writer Jules Verne, "Michel Strogoff". Thank you for sharing

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hi Adrian 🍕Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕

[@jexthegamer]

Awesome. Thank you for sharing this. I never would have seen it otherwise.

[@aadamtx]

This was Walbrook's first English-language film (originally entitled THE SOLDIER AND THE LADY) after fleeing Europe. He also appeared or starred in GASLIGHT, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, THE RED SHOES, LA RONDE, LOLA MONTES, and SAINT JOAN. One of my favorites is his starring role in THE QUEEN OF SPADES (1949), based on the short story by Pushkin.

[@grahamjones1269]

I didn't know he went to America, first. He's my all time favourite actor. Yes, The Queen of Spades is a great film. Walbrook is far too old for the part of course, but does a wonderful job.

[@BikeVermont71]

Wonderful actors and a great story. I grew up with the Scribner's edition of Verne's classic, complete with NC Wyeth illustrations.

[@magacapwearer5910]

I love this type of drama. Dramatic with a little touch of humor. It makes me want to see more of the reporters adventures than Michael's

[@bizzybee852]

Thank you for an awesome movie!

[@thatboringdude9429]

Thank you. I love this movie. Saw it decades ago with my uncle Orlando who has sadly passed away years ago. He was the one who told me about the movie as he knew I was a Jules Verne fan.

[@Olegzyan]

Great movie! very enjoyable!

[@bradfordrusso7480]

I watched this film on TV, as a child. And have waited more than 50 years to see it again. Thank you. As for Akim Tamaroff, Yes he is a favored star. Naturally, as Mr. Acebos in the original "Ocean's 11". Then "Five Graves to Cairo". But, perhaps most of all, an episode of "The Rifleman", titled "New Orleans Mennace". His performance should have won an award.

[@pabloklanian7283]

1.01.50._The famous "Polovtsian Dances" from the opera "Prince Igor" by Borodin. 2.07._There is a contradiction because the story happens in 1870 and the première of the Borodin's opera was in 1890 after the death of the composer.

[@sailorjoe7925]

Sweet Movie

[@jeffaltier5582]

A little known Jules Verne story. People think of him mainly as a sci-fi type writer, but he was also known for his wild adventure tales.

[@PizzaFLIX]

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[@dontaylor7315]

Exactly. I think it's since his time that his pioneering in sci-fi got the most attention. In his own day I bet he was known mainly as a spinner of thrilling yarns.

[@dontaylor7315]

Some critics have said Strogoff is Verne's best book.

[@dontaylor7315]

And (SPOILER ALERT) Samuel Shellabarger later borrowed the supposed blinding from Verne (and also borrowed Strogoff's mother, rewriting her as an Italian) in his novel Prince of Foxes.

[@alfrede.newman6626]

👍

[@mscir]

GREAT movie, thank you very much.

[@terencebrown7643]

At 59:24 - I'd swear that is Ward Bond as a Tatar jailer...

[@keithharvey7230]

It looked like him and yes,he was in this film,I checked Wards records.His real name was Wardell.

[@marbleman52]

@@keithharvey7230 Terence and I both thank you for that info...!!

[@mariogirard1221]

this movie enlighted my day,thankyou😇😍

[@raztaz826]

That was a good one

[@alfrede.newman6626]

One of the best movies of that era, ! good call PizzaFiix !👍👍👍

[@robertguttman1487]

Vintage film version of Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff starring Anton Walbrook (who later starred in "The Red Shoes") but dominated by Akim Tamiroff, who seemed to have been enjoying himself immensely playing the villain (...To the friend of your bosom, the Tsar! Heh, heh, heh, heh!"). Most people thinik of Jules Verne as a writer of science-fiction novels but actually the plots of all of his novels revolved around unusual journeys of one sort or another. The journey might be under the sea in a submarine, across Africa in a balloon, around the world in an airship, on foot to the center of the Earth or it might simply be around the world in 80 days. In this particular instance, however, the story concerns a journey across Russia to Central Asia which, at the time this book was written, was as remote and exotic to Verne's readers as a journey across Central Africa.

[@danielpitti6030]

Loved it!

[@deloreslandeis1008]

Grrrrreat movie! THANKS!!!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Yay! Delores is back 🍕🍕🍕

[@markhuebner7580]

Awesome show and amazing historical commentary on Russia! Woohoo!

[@yomama8873]

Thank you 🤩🤩💖

[@mikenixon2401]

Best part of Monday.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks Mike 🍕🍕🍕

[@1923hl]

Any chance Akim Tamiroff in this movie was the inspiration for Boris Badenov in the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons?

[@marbleman52]

Clark Evans....The resemblance sure is close...!!

[@roxyabrooks864]

This looks so fun! Thank you!

[@gerdamaria3333]

The talkie pioneers, Jules-Gabriel Verne & Adolf Wohlbrück in tsarist Russia - an intriguing combination indeed! :)

[@albertinirock4926]

Makes me proud to be Russian!

[@lenoraswidzinsky5825]

🍕🍕🍕🍕👍👍👍👍thanks P.F.!love these swashbucklers!!)

[@steveparadis2978]

Walbrook and Tamiroff--what else does a movie need?

[@keithharvey7230]

Joan Blondell in a uniform!

[@glenncox9128]

Epic

[@mochawitch]

Wasn't Anton Walbrook in The Red Shoes?

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hi Mocha 🍕Yes, Good call. Also the star of the 1940 British version of Gaslight. 🍕🍕🍕

[@mochawitch]

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[@theoryofpersonality1420]

That movie changed my life.

[@keithharvey7230]

​@@PizzaFLIXDangerous Moonlight,one of his biggest hits.

[@leelarson107]

Yeah, and also in 'The Pink Slippers'............thunnuvva bithth! 💣👎

[@garyinmaine1278]

Goes to show you how a few people with guns can take over the masses of sheep

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

Now imagine if they were the only ones with guns. If there were no one to stop them.

[@SimonFurber]

What history does this refer to ? Which war ?

[@whymelord285]

great intro by Mr PIZZA

[@keithharvey7230]

Fay Bainter won an oscar for Jezebel.

[@dontaylor7315]

I'm just nitpicking, but since they're Russians I'd have preferred that they pronounce his first name Mic-HA-el. I don't think they have silent H's in Russian.

[@90FF1]

Too bad RKO felt it necessary to include a couple of goof balls into the script of a film of such a grand scale and serious nature. i.e. war & love. None the less, enjoyable. Tnx PF.

[@stevehartman1730]

Jules Verne and a few other sci-fi writers looked down on H.G.Wells butWells had it all over all of them. The difference is Well writing was classical literature while Jules Verne was tantamount to a Classics Illustrated comic book. No offense Im sure Verne did his best.

[@Yossepphie]

Love me some pizzaflix

[@albertinirock4926]

People were cruel to bear's back then! Don't blame Bear's if he or she bites someone!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hi Albert - I hated that scene. I thought about cutting it out.

[@davidhawk9678]

oh those russians - always wanting to get into a scrap!

[@keithharvey7230]

At the end of this are we supposed to think fhe good guys are routing the bad guys?lol

[@alexciocca4451]

Wow beef stroganoff in a movie must be good

[@PizzaFLIX]

beef Stroganoff is dish of French origin by way of tsarist Russia. Michael Strogoff is a novel of French origin by author Jules Verne.

[@sunnyadams5842]

Can 't say that didn't cross my mind, too. Thanks for setting us straight on that, Pizzaflix! And thanks for the movie ❤

[@operatorjeffdeathstar7759]

WICKED...

[@Tony-1950]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

I can't watch this one. It invokes genetic memories.

[@ЛедаСварогова]

Почему на русском языке нет?!

[@samwoodson7760]

Потому что никто не перевёл. Но если вы нажмёте на шестерёнку в правом верхнем углу и включите автоперевод субтитров на русский, то получите титры на русском языке. Я так и смотрю.

[@timoakes450]

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