Another Dawn

Name: Another Dawn
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1937-06-26
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort, Herbert Mundin

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Another Dawn (1937)

Timing: 1:13 (73 min)

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Video for the film Another Dawn — Another Dawn (1937) TRAILER - with ERROL FLYNN and Korngold's Score

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Release date

1937-06-26

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre

Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Budget

Box office

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Director

William Dieterle

Actors

Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort, Herbert Mundin, G.P. Huntley, Billy Bevan, Clyde Cook, Richard Powell, Kenneth Hunter
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Scenario

Producer

Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner

Camera operator

Tony Gaudio

Composer

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Artist

Audition

Editing

Ralph Dawson
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Short description

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, the film was planned to have a different, longer ending. Errol Flynn's (1898-1959) character was supposed to take off on a deadly mission and perish, thereby giving the married couple played by Ian Hunter (1900-1975) and Kay Francis (1905-1968) a chance to reconcile, and bringing the plot back into compliance with the Hays Code (an ethical code for film production in Hollywood adopted by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association, which became the unofficial national standard for moral censorship in US cinema in 1934). However, by the time filming ended, Flynn had already become a top-tier movie star whom female audiences specifically came to see, so the finale was reshot such that Hunter's character nobly sacrificed himself instead.