cynthiahost Review of To New Shores

To New Shores (1937)

One of the best Zarah pictures and her first in the dictatorship

[9/10 · 6 February 2010]

Very ironically ,even after the Third Reich take over, certain amount of non propaganda films were continued to be distributed in the united states even without subtitles and dubbing.I don't know how those films made money in the United States without that. It proved that there were more Hollywood type productions than propaganda even after the cut off in 40. Zarah Leander had an American fan following cause her earlier films did come to the United. Zu Neuen Ufzern.It was directed by Douglas Sirk who would later leave for the united states and produce films like magnificent obsession and imitation of life, I think.He was trying to make Dorothy Malone another Zarah But Malone was different in personality.It seems that no matter how much Zarah suffers in this picture she remains glamorous unlike her friend in prison ,played by Lissy Arna,who not glamorous. Nore is the prison maiden, played by Lina Lossen, she looks like a witch.Poor Zarah, who plays Gloria,is a successful singer and stage actress in France and the prudes complain about her, Her boy friend Sir Abert Finesbury, played by Willy Birgel, expressed as Villy, has taken advantage of her and pit his Dept's he owes on her . She takes his responsibility while he escapes and ends up in a womens prison in Australia, The German actors used certain English words and there are black German actors who play bushman .She offered freedom from prison if she marries one of the farmers. Victor Skaal offers her freedom. But as soon as they are on the way home she runs away to find Willy or Villy and she does only to discover that he is engaged to the Governor Jones daughter Mary,played by Carola Hohn.He's now a notorious womanizer even Victors sister, played by squared jawed Hilda Von Stolz is interested in him.So she runs off and he starts to search for her .He finds her in a cabaret singing a ballad and he ends up messing it up for her. She rejects him now and doesn't want to come back, Mady Rahl show up in a small part in the cabaret with a 1937 hair do in the 1830 something setting. Feeling bad about screwing her life up Albert kills himself only to be found dead by Victors uncle who's the local doctor. She ends up marrying victor in a double wedding with her friend marrying Ernest Legal.This was a good German classic made under the third Reich dictatorship before it got super worst The U. S. A. would have to wait till after the war to see some of the Zarah movie. available at warfilms.com