Brief Ecstasy

Brief Ecstasy
Directed byEdmond T. Gréville
Written byBasil Mason
Produced byHugh Perceval
StarringPaul Lukas
Hugh Williams
Linden Travers
Marie Ney
CinematographyHenry Harris
Ronald Neame
Edited byRay Pitt
Music byWalter Goehr
Release date
  • August 1937 (1937-08)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Brief Ecstasy (also known as Dangerous Secrets) is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden Travers and Marie Ney.[1][2] It was made at Ealing Studios.

Plot

Cast

Reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, expressing admiration for producer Perceval's ability to "wring twenty shillings' worth out of every pound" and director Gréville's recognition that for a film whose subject is sexual passion "the story doesn't matter; it's the atmosphere which counts". Greene praised Gréville's "wanton and vivid" depictions of "undifferentiated desire" as well as his French education in "photograph[ing] a woman's body - uncompromisingly", and noted that "the film at its finest [...] generalizes", and "there isn't, thank God, any love in it".[3]

References

  1. ^ "Brief Ecstasy". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  2. ^ BFI.org
  3. ^ Greene, Graham (16 September 1937). "Action for Slander/Brief Ecstacy". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 167. ISBN 0192812866.)


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