Love Under Fire

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Love Under Fire
Love-under-fire-movie-poster-1937.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by George Marshall
Written by Gene Fowler
Ernest Pascal
Allen Rivkin
Walter C. Hackett (play)
Produced by Nunnally Johnson
Starring Loretta Young
Don Ameche
Frances Drake
Cinematography Ernest Palmer
Edited by Barbara McLean
Music by Arthur Lange
Charles Maxwell
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • August 20, 1937 (1937-08-20)(US)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Love Under Fire is a 1937 American drama film based upon the play by Walter C. Hackett. It was directed by George Marshall and stars Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Frances Drake. [1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudolph Sternad. [3]

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Plot

During the Spanish Civil War, a detective from Scotland Yard falls in love with a woman he had believed to be a jewel thief.

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References

  1. "Love Under Fire". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved July 30, 2017.
  2. Dick, Bernard F. (2005) The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, p.14
  3. "Love Under Fire (1937)". FilmAffinity . Retrieved July 30, 2017.