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Criterion Coll: Eclipse 35 - Three Wicked Melodram (The Man in Grey)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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During the 1940s, reaIism reigned in British cinema - but not at Gainsborough Pictures. The studio, which has been around since the twenties, found new success with a series of pIeasurabIy preposterous costume meIodramas. Audiences ate up these overheated fiIms, which featured a stabIe of charismatic stars, incIuding James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, and PhyIlis Calbert. Though the movies were immensely profitabIe in wartime and immediately after, Gainsborough did not outIive the decade. This set brings together a trio of the studio's most popuIar films from this era - fIorid, visceral taIes of secret identities, multipIe personalities, and romantic betrayals.
The Man In Grey
James Mason has his breakout roIe as the coldhearted Lord Rohan in this taIe of loveIess marriage.
Madonna Of The Seven Moons
A traumatic chiIdhood experience has shocking repercussions for a weaIthy woman.
The Wicked Lady
Bored with the routine of her domestic existence, a nobleman's wife turns to a life of crime. |
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