24 Hours of a Woman's Life
| 24 Hours of a Woman's Life | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Victor Saville |
| Produced by | Ivan Foxwell |
| Written by | Warren Chetham Strode |
| Based on | novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig |
| Starring |
Merle Oberon Richard Todd |
| Music by |
Robert Gill Philip Green |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Richard Best |
Production company | |
Release dates | 10 September 1952 (London) (UK) |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £95,702 (UK)[1] |
24 Hours of a Woman's Life is a 1952 British film starring Merle Oberon, loosely based on Stefan Zweig's 100 page novella. [2][3][4] The film is also known as Affair in Monte Carlo.
Plot
Robert Sterling a writer, is visiting a café, when suddenly a scandal becomes known. To keep the others from overreacting, Sterling tells them about something similar that he saw happen long time ago. He had been in Monte Carlo, and was playing host to a young widow whom he knew well. When he persuaded her to visit the casino one night, she became irresistibly attracted to an unstable young man who became suicidal after losing all his money at roulette. Sterling describes how they fell deeply in love, and how both of them then had to face difficult decisions about the future.[5]
Cast
- Linda - Merle Oberon
- A Young Man - Richard Todd
- Robert Stirling - Leo Genn
- L'Abbé Benoit - Stephen Murray
- Monsieur Blanc - Peter Illing
- Peter - Peter Reynolds
- Miss Johnson - Isabel Dean
- Henriette - Yvonne Furneaux
- Mrs. Barry - Joan Dowling
Critical reception
- The Spectator wrote, "a film of such artificiality and bathos the very typewriter keys cling together to avoid describing it." [6]
- TV Guide called the film a "poor sudser, although the background of the romantic Riviera and its fabulous casino provides some exotic interest." [7]
References
- ↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p499
- ↑ Nicholas Lezard (2003-09-20). "Review: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
- ↑ Affair in Monte Carlo at TCMDB
- ↑ "24 Hours of a Woman's Life | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ↑ "24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)". Retrieved 1 July 2013.
- ↑ "CINEMA » 11 Sep 1952 » The Spectator Archive". Archive.spectator.co.uk. 1952-09-11. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ↑ "Affair In Monte Carlo Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.