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Director:
Basil Dean
Writers:
John Galsworthy (story)
Graham Greene (writer) ...
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Release Date:
29 April 1940 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime... more | add synopsis
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Enormous curiosity value in this.... more

Cast

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Vivien Leigh ... Wanda
Leslie Banks ... Keith Durrant

Laurence Olivier ... Larry Durrant
Francis L. Sullivan ... Mander
David Horne ... Beavis
Hay Petrie ... John Aloysius Evan
William Dewhurst ... Lord Chief Justice
Esme Percy ... Henry Walenn
Frederick Lloyd ... Swinton
Robert Newton ... Tolly
Victor Rietti ... Antonio
Morris Harvey ... Alexander MacPherson
Elliott Mason ... Frau Grunlich
Arthur Young ... Ascher
Meinhart Maur ... Grunlich
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
21 Days Together (USA)
The First and the Last
Twenty-One Days
Twenty-One Days Together (USA)
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Runtime:
72 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Canada:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The place, Kursaal, where Larry and Wanda go on their day out of London, is at Southend-on-Sea. It was the world's first permanent funfair/ theme park. It closed down in 1973. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) (TV) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Enormous curiosity value in this...., 30 December 2003
5/10
Author: Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) from Toronto, Canada

But not much plot. This was obviously a vehicle for its stars who were married at the time. Lawrence Olivier is quite wooden and stagey, Vivien glows, the camera just loves her. The story is a neat twist on ethics and morality with the wayward no-good brother standing firm for honesty and the uptight, successful barrister brother - on his way to becoming a judge - ready to hang an innocent man for a crime he did not commit. The twenty one days refer to the length of time the trial of this innocent man is going to take. The technical quality of the film was poor, the background of London was nearly washed out and the streets were obviously studio sets, not surprising, as it was filmed at the start of WW2. 5 out of 10, the ending was a bit of a let down and Larry really hams it up.

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