Till We Meet Again
Cast & Crew
Robert Florey
Herbert Marshall
Gertrude Michael
Lionel Atwill
Rod La Rocque
Guy Bates Post
Film Details
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Synopsis
In August, 1914, two sophisticated London stage actors without family or relations, Englishman Alan Barclow and Austrian Elsa Daranyi, are about to be married when England declares war on Germany. Upon returning to her apartment, Elsa finds Herr Ludwig, an officer of the German Secret Service, waiting to request that she resume her former service as a spy. He tells her that Alan will grow to hate her if by staying she kept him from serving his own country, so she leaves Alan a goodbye note and heads for Paris. Discovering Elsa's disappearance the next morning, the heartbroken Alan agrees to become a secret agent for England, and both he and Elsa are trained as spies. Alan agrees to have his death announced after he is passed surreptitiously into Germany as the shell-shocked "Hans Teller" during a prisoner exchange. In Paris, Elsa is grief-stricken when Ludwig gently breaks the news of Alan's death and becomes ardent in her work, seducing officers into revealing their secrets, then betraying them to Ludwig. Alan, meanwhile, contacts Karl Schrottle, a German officer who is dismayed at his fatherland's killing of innocent civilians. Karl secures Alan a job as a trash collector in a German munitions factory, and they arrange to sabotage a giant cannon that is bombarding Paris. Elsa discovers Karl's complicity and forces him to commit suicide. However, she then recognizes Hans Teller as her beloved Alan, and they renounce war and plan to flee together. While trying to warn his fellow spies, Alan is almost captured. He and Elsa head for Holland disguised as a blind soldier and his nurse. Later on a train, they are forced to separate, and Elsa maintains to Ludwig that she was uncovering a British spy network. Ludwig, however, is not taken in, and when he spots a coffin lid ajar, he suspects the coffin is Alan's hiding place and shoots the corpse. Elsa's display of fake grief makes Ludwig suspect that the body is not Alan's, and he gives her a gun to shoot herself for betraying her country by protecting an enemy spy. Alan steps from his real hiding place and covers Ludwig with a gun as all three jump from the speeding train. Ludwig breaks his back in the fall and is carried by the couple to a farmhouse. The dying Ludwig, moved by the plight of the lovers, directs his soldiers away from the farmhouse as Alan and Elsa hurry, hand in hand, across the frontier toward freedom and love in neutral Holland.
Director
Robert Florey
Cast
Herbert Marshall
Gertrude Michael
Lionel Atwill
Rod La Rocque
Guy Bates Post
Spencer Charters
Frank Reicher
Egon Brecher
Torben Meyer
Vallejo Gantner
Julia Faye
Perry Hurni
Eugene Borden
Agostino Borgato
Colin Tapley
Colin Kenny
Creighton Hale
Tempe Pigott
Rita Carlyle
Charles Mcnaughton
Pat Somerset
Phillis Coghlan
Gunnis Davis
John Rogers
Yorke Sherwood
Frances Morris
Hooper Atchley
Chico De Verdi
Herbert Clifton
Howard Lang
Alexander Melesh
Hans Joby
Carrie Daumery
George Eldredge
Kai Schmidt
James Marcus
Helen Gierre
Harry Semels
Walter Thiele
Captain John Van Eyck
Leslie Francis
Archdale J. Jones
Rex Alexander
Robert Murphy
Oscar Apfel
John Picorri
Robert Mckenzie
Arthur S. "pop" Byron
Howard Truesdell
Darwin Rudd
Charles Morrell
Alex Woloshin
Bernard Siegel
Christian Rub
Hans Fuerberg
Max Barwyn
Frank Baker
Edmund Mortimer
Colonel G. S. Mcdonell
Henry Roquemore
Major Sam Harris
Crew
Roland Anderson
Major G. O. T. Bagley
Morton Barteaux
Count Von Brincken
Franklin Coen
Captain C. F. Cook
John Cope
Richard Currier
Hans Dreier
A. E. Freudeman
Edith Head
Frederick Hollander
Gui Ignon
William Lebaron
Albert Lewis
Harry Lindgren
Brian Marlow
Edwin Justus Mayer
Victor Milner
Harry Scott
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
The film's working title was Reunion; it was changed to Till We Meet Again as the film was being released. Film Daily erroneously reviewed this film under the title Forgotten Faces, which was the title of another 1936 Paramount film starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael. According to the modern reminiscences of director Robert Florey, Sylvia Sidney was to play the role of "Elsa Daranyi," but she was detained on another film and the part was assumed by Gertrude Michael. According to publicity, stage star Guy Bates Post made his first sound film appearance in Till We Meet Again. Hollywood Reporter production charts list Barbara Penny, Harry Allen, John Blood and Robert Middlemass in the cast, but their appearance in the final film has not been confirmed. The New York Times review states that the title Till We Meet Again "leaves us reasonably certain we have not seen the last of these recurring World War romances in which the lovers, separated by patriotic barriers, meet later as rival spies in enemy territory. There have been a dozen minor embellishments of the formula in the last three years."
