In transmuting the Hervey Allen bestseller to the screen the producers were faced with the unusual problem of too much material. They have maneuvered a straightforward and comparatively logical story.

JUST barely skimming the surface of an occasional chapter in “Anthony Adverse,” the film of that title runs a good two hours and twenty minutes, and in general sustains a fair degree of the usual ...

ACTION AT AQUILA—Hervey Allen—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Anthony Adverse was published June 26, 1933, with advance orders of 15,000 copies and the prestige of a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. It ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony ...

Best Picture nominee depicts the early 19th-century swashbuckling adventures of an ambitious young orphan who travels the world and falls in love with a servant's daughter, but their affair is doomed ...

ACTOR Tony Curtis was buried on Monday with some of his prized possessions – a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favourite novel, Anthony Adverse, a book ...