The Man in Grey (1943)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Leslie Arliss
Cast: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Synopsis:
A rich and beautiful heiress marries a brutish Marquis, who regards her with contempt and carries on an affair with her more lowly born best friend.
Review:
Classic Gainsborough melodrama, but dimly lit, as though shot during a blackout like the one which interrupts the auction proceedings at the start. Not as good as The Wicked Lady, in my view, though just as novelettish: the euthanasia practised by Lockwood on Calvert, and her grisly comeuppance, make for good scenes, but much else strains credibility. The dialogue and acting are fully up to the mark, however.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Leslie Arliss
Cast: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Synopsis:
A rich and beautiful heiress marries a brutish Marquis, who regards her with contempt and carries on an affair with her more lowly born best friend.
Review:
Classic Gainsborough melodrama, but dimly lit, as though shot during a blackout like the one which interrupts the auction proceedings at the start. Not as good as The Wicked Lady, in my view, though just as novelettish: the euthanasia practised by Lockwood on Calvert, and her grisly comeuppance, make for good scenes, but much else strains credibility. The dialogue and acting are fully up to the mark, however.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Leslie Arliss
Cast: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Synopsis:
A rich and beautiful heiress marries a brutish Marquis, who regards her with contempt and carries on an affair with her more lowly born best friend.
Review:
Classic Gainsborough melodrama, but dimly lit, as though shot during a blackout like the one which interrupts the auction proceedings at the start. Not as good as The Wicked Lady, in my view, though just as novelettish: the euthanasia practised by Lockwood on Calvert, and her grisly comeuppance, make for good scenes, but much else strains credibility. The dialogue and acting are fully up to the mark, however.