Three Russian Girls (1943)

8.0/10 81 min Comedy War

Overview

Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.

Cast

Anna Sten

Natasha

Kent Smith

John Hill

Mimi Forsythe

Tamara

Alexander Granach

Major Braginski

Kathy Frye

Chijik

Paul Guilfoyle

Trishin

Kane Richmond

Sergei

Feodor Chaliapin Jr.

Terkin (as Feodor Chaliapin)

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