Berkeley Squaren aave

Original title: Berkeley Square

19331933
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1h 28m

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6.5/10

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Leslie Howard and Heather Angel in Berkeley Squaren aave (1933)

Fantasy Romance

A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

878

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Director
- Frank Lloyd
Writers
- John L. Balderston(play)
- Sonya Levien(screenplay)
- Henry James(unfinished novel "The Sense of the Past")
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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Director
- Frank Lloyd
Writers
- John L. Balderston(play) (screenplay)
- Sonya Levien(screenplay)
- Henry James(unfinished novel "The Sense of the Past") (uncredited)
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Trivia
S.T. Joshi points to this film as an inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's novel "The Shadow Out of Time": "Lovecraft saw this film four times in late 1933; its portrayal of a man of the 20th century who somehow merges his personality with that of his 18th-century ancestor was clearly something that fired Lovecraft's imagination, since he had written a story on this very theme himself--the then unpublished "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (1927)." Lovecraft called the film "the most weirdly perfect embodiment of my own moods and pseudo-memories that I have ever seen--for all my life I have felt as if I might wake up out of this dream of an idiotic Victorian age and insane jazz age into the sane reality of 1760 or 1770 or 1780." Lovecraft noted some conceptual problems in this film's depiction of time travel, and felt that he had "eliminated these flaws in his masterful novella of mind-exchange over time."

Goofs
The word Okay (OK) was not used in the 18th century.

Quotes
Peter Standish: A new Fire of London, that's what's needed here. Yes, and a new Plague too. Dirt, disease, cruelty, smells - Lord, how the eighteenth century stinks!

Connections
Referenced in Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)

Soundtracks
Early One Morning
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English folk song

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Great enthusiasm for a 66-year old film.

"Berkeley Square" is similar in theme to Jack Finney's "Time and Again." A present day American is transported back to the home of his ancestors in London, during the American Revolution. He knows, of course, what will hap- pen and even falls in love with one of his female ancestors. An old film but a terrific one, with Leslie Howard and Heather Angel.

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