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Rembrandt

  • 19361936
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 25m
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7.1/10
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Charles Laughton in Rembrandt (1936)
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The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
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    • Alexander Korda
    • Carl Zuckmayer(film play)
    • June Head(scenario)
    • Lajos Biró(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Charles Laughton
    • Gertrude Lawrence
    • Elsa Lanchester
    • Alexander Korda
    • Carl Zuckmayer(film play)
    • June Head(scenario)
    • Lajos Biró(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Charles Laughton
    • Gertrude Lawrence
    • Elsa Lanchester
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    • 32User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
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    Charles Laughton in Rembrandt (1936)
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    Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton
    • Rembrandt van Rijn
    Gertrude Lawrence
    Gertrude Lawrence
    • Geertje Dirx
    Elsa Lanchester
    Elsa Lanchester
    • Hendrickje Stoffels
    Edward Chapman
    Edward Chapman
    • Fabrizius
    Walter Hudd
    Walter Hudd
    • Banning Cocq
    Roger Livesey
    Roger Livesey
    • Beggar Saul
    John Bryning
    • Titus
    Sam Livesey
    Sam Livesey
    • Auctioneer
    Herbert Lomas
    • Gerrit van Rijn - Rembrandt's Father
    Allan Jeayes
    Allan Jeayes
    • Doctor Tulp
    John Clements
    John Clements
    • Flinck
    Raymond Huntley
    Raymond Huntley
    • Ludwick
    Abraham Sofaer
    Abraham Sofaer
    • Menasseh
    Lawrence Hanray
    • Heertsbeeke
    Austin Trevor
    Austin Trevor
    • Marquis de Grand Coeur
    Henry Hewitt
    • Jan Six
    Gertrude Musgrove
    • Agelintje - Girl at Inn
    Richard Gofe
    • Titus (child)
      • Alexander Korda
      • Carl Zuckmayer(film play)
      • June Head(scenario)
      • Lajos Biró(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Sam Livesey, the father of three other actors in this movie--Roger Livesey, Barry Livesey, and Jack Livesey--died the day after this film was released in London.
    • Goofs
      When Rembrandt reveals the newly completed painting, 'The Night Watch', we see not the full, original version that he in fact painted, but the drastically butchered version that was made over 40 years after his death, when the painting was moved from its original exhibition space in the Kloveniersdoelen to a less capacious display space in the Amsterdam Town Hall in 1715.
    • Quotes

      Rembrandt van Rijn: What is success? A soldier can reckon his success in victories, a merchant in money. But my world is insubstantial. I live in a beautiful, blinding, swirling mist.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: In the seventeenth century Holland was a world power, her ships carried treasure to Amsterdam from all parts of the earth. But her proudest glory was the son of a miller from Leyden, Rembrandt Van Rijn, the greatest painter that has ever lived. He died in obscurity, his belongings no more than a few shillings.

      Today no millionaire is worth the money the works of Rembrandt would realise, if ever offered for sale.
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    8/10
    A Potted Biopic with Terrific Acting
    Artists speak through their paintings and, often, their lives are not that interesting. "Van Gogh" gave us a good screen character because that film maximally milked his neurotic excesses. Very recently, "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" concocted a fantasy vision of long ago Delft and framed without fear of contradiction by scholars the life of an artist, Vermeer, about whom very, very little is known.

    In 1936, the great age of the Studio System, Alexander Korda produced and directed "Rembrandt," a sprawling and somewhat disjointed portrait (pun intended) of Rembrandt van Rijn. Charles Laughton alternates as a boisterous or then somewhat subdued Rembrandt. He loses his wife to illness and then takes up with a domestic, Geertje, played by Gertude Lawrence. Lawrence is fine as a woman who combines common sense with hectoring but who, in the process, sacrifice's the relationship's initial passion to hnadling daily burdens.

    This Rembrandt has no idea that in the future his paintings will be quite desired by museums and thieves, including celluloid ones. He paints, he proclaims, what he sees and not what his patrons want. A huge painting of the Civic Guard is unveiled to shock and denunciations as, Goyaesque, the contributors to the fund for the painting see themselves savagely lampooned.

    A new model, Hendrickje, charmingly acted by a beautiful and youthful Elsa Lanchester, steals Rembrandt's heart and body, leaving the long suffering Geertje out in the cold.

    Rembrandt's relationship with Hendricktje is the most charming part of a film that blends unconvincingly connected scenes together. There's too much noise: Rembrandt paints, Rembrandt drinks (a lot), Rembrandt is hounded by creditors, Rembrandt runs back to dad. Laughton's acting carries the film and when he occupies center stage he is never less than attention-grabbing. But this isn't the Charles Laughton of "Mutiny on the Bounty," there a riveting character. Laughton's Rembrandt is a fellow one might care to sip smooth Holland gin with but he's no character with a deep soul inviting speculation and drawing the best from a great actor.

    "Rembrandt" is a studio product well representative of its time. On that basis it merits enjoyable viewing.

    8/10.
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    • Mar 11, 2004

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 1936 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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      • Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • London Film Productions
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    • 1 hour 25 minutes
      • Black and White

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