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The Man from Yesterday is a american film of genre Drama directed by Fred Zinnemann released in USA on 24 june 1932 with Claudette Colbert
The Man from Yesterday (1932)
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Add to a movie listThe Man from Yesterday is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic war drama film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Berthold Viertel, and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, bases on story by Neil Blackwell and Rowland G. Edwards.
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In Paris at the end of the First World War, Sylvia Suffolk and British officer Tony Clyde get married, shortly before Tony leaves for the front. Sylvia, newly pregnant, is given the news that Tony is dead while working as a nurse for surgeon René Gaudin. Sylvia gradually falls in love with René, but is reluctant to remarry since she has no official news of Tony's death. On holiday in Switzerland with René, Sylvia is shocked to find Tony is still alive, and convalescing, and now finds herself torn between duty to Tony and marriage to René.Actors
Claudette Colbert
(Sylvia Suffolk)
Clive Brook
(Captain Tony Clyde)
Charles Boyer
(Rene Gaudin)
Andy Devine
(Steve Hand)
Alan Mowbray
(Dr. Waite)
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