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- Anna Karenina
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- (September 9, 1935)
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- Anna Karenina is the third cinema version of Count Leo
- Tolstoy's masterpiece. The current edition substitutes a
- thoroughly sane characterization of the hero by Fredric March
- and a decent, if not altogether unwavering, respect for the
- intentions of its original. The second and third versions of
- Anna Karenina still have two important things in common. These
- are a superb portrayal of Anna by Greta Garbo and a story
- which,like many masterpieces of the world's literature, could
- scarcely have been better suited to the purposes of Hollywood
- if it had been written by six famed screen writers.
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- Considered as a reproduction of a celebrated novel, Anna
- Karenina is intelligent, reasonably faithful and less likely to
- arouse squeals of affected agony from literary hair-splitters
- than any other recent effort of its king. Considered on its own
- merits as a picture, it is the liveliest in which Greta Garbo
- has appeared since Mata Hari and should on this account delight
- millions of cinemaddicts who have never heard of Tolstoy and
- could not spell out his stories if they had.
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