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Writers:
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
Talbot Jennings (writer)
Release Date:
20 September 1944 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Lady of Fire and Ice... A Rogue of Steel and Gallantry
Plot:
An English lady falls madly in love with a French Pirate. | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. more
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The kind of thing for which Technicolor was invented! more (13 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Joan Fontaine | ... | Dona St. Columb |
 | Arturo de Córdova | ... | Jean Benoit Aubrey |
| Basil Rathbone | ... | Lord Rockingham |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Lord Godolphin |
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | William |
| Ralph Forbes | ... | Harry St. Columb |
| Harald Maresch | ... | Edmond (as Harald Ramond) |
| Billy Daniel | ... | Pierre Blanc (as Billy Daniels) |
| Moyna MacGill | ... | Lady Godolphin |
| Patricia Barker | ... | Henrietta |
| David James | ... | James |
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110 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
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Version of Frenchman's Creek (1998) (TV) more
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I've never seen this fanciful costumer in a theater but a TV broadcast, quite a few years ago, fairly leapt from the screen - the three-strip Technicolor had transferred to video as if it were a pristine print. Paramount obviously spared no expense on this one and, despite some minor objections, I recall being thoroughly entertained by it, especially that absolutely savage battle-to-the-death between Basil Rathbone's quintessentially dastardly villain and a desperately determined Joan Fontaine.
Some years back I somewhere read that, while waiting in full makeup and costumes for the lighting technicians to work their magic, Miss Fontaine rather scathingly queried her costar, Arturo de Cordova, why he was pursuing a career as an actor, apparently with the implication that it was an occupation unworthy of a man. If that's the kind of treatment he had to undergo at the hands of a Hollywood leading lady, one can confidently guess that his much greater success in Latin American cinema left him with few regrets that his Hollywood sojourn never amounted to much.