Three Faces West

Drama about a man smitten by the daughter of an Austrian surgeon who has fled war-torn Europe to settle in America. She is still in love with the memory of the German soldier that saved her life, but when he arrives unexpectedly to take her back to the Fatherland, she sees a man radically changed by the Nazi indoctrination that she and her father sought to escape., About migratory farmers seeking a new life in Oregon. John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie. Braun: Charles Coburn. Billy: Sonny Bupp. Mrs. Welles: Helen MacKellar. Nunk: Spencer Charters. Harris: Wade Boteler. Higgins: Trevor Bardette. Bernard Vorhaus directed., Bernard Vorhaus’s contemporary western stars Charles Coburn as Austrian doctor Karl Braun and Sigrid Gurie as his daughter Leni. Fleeing the Nazis to America, they end up in a small town in North Dakota where they’re met by John Phillips. Accepted by the townsfolk, they join Phillips when he urges the community to move as one to Oregon, to escape the dust storms that are destroying their farms, but not before there’s trouble with one of Phillips’ rivals and an unwelcome visit from a face from Leni’s past., The Refugee was the original release title for the offbeat John Wayne vehicle Three Faces West. Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and Charles Coburn are starred as John Philips, Leni Braun and Leni’s father Dr. Braun, who like so many other victims of the Depression are forced to move bag and baggage from the Dust Bowl to the West Coast. A fugitive from fascist oppression in Austria, Dr. Braun hopes to carve out a new existence for himself and his daughter Leni by tilling the soil, but she is more interested in being reunited with her Austrian boyfriend Eric von Scherer (Varno) once she arrives in Oregon. In charge of the migration westward is John Phillips who loves Leni but keeps his feelings to himself. But when Leni discovers that her sweetheart has thoroughly embraced the Nazi cause, she finds solace in the arms of the faithful Phillips. Among the screenwriters of The Refugee was Samuel Ornitz, later one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten., World War II drama in which a group of Austrian refugees arrive in a small town in the United States, which proves beneficial for the locals.