Arch of Triumph (1948 film)

Arch of Triumph is a 1948 American war romance film starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Charles Laughton. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and is based on the 1945 novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which he wrote during his nineyear exile in the United States.

The films name is a reference to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, where the film is set. The rough cut of the film was four hours long, and in reducing it to two hours several actors were cut. Irwin Shaw spent five months writing the screenplay, but quit when Lewis Milestone wanted him to add a love story. Milestone then rewrote the script himself together with Harry Brown. Ingrid Bergmans salary for the part was 175,000 of net profits.The MPAAs head of the Production Code Administration at the time, Joseph Breen, made the films studio tone down the violence in the script. The scene where Ravic kills Haake also included him stuffing Haake in the cars trunk, stripping him naked, burying him and burning his clothes this was cut from the film. Breen also objected to the murder going unpunished, but relented. ........

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