Glamorous Night (film)

Glamorous Night
Directed byBrian Desmond Hurst
Written byHugh Brooke
Dudley Leslie
William Freshman
J. Lee Thompson (adaptation)
Based onmusical play Glamorous Night by Ivor Novello[1]
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
StarringMary Ellis
Otto Kruger
Victor Jory
Barry MacKay
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Edited byFlora Newton
Music byIvor Novello (composer: songs and incidental music)
Harry Acres (musical director)
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British Picture Corporation (UK)
Release dates
  • 28 April 1937 (1937-04-28) (London, UK)
  • 15 December 1937 (1937-12-15) (US)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Glamorous Night is a 1937 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory and Barry MacKay.[2] It is an adaptation of the musical Glamorous Night by Ivor Novello.[3] In a mythical European kingdom, King Stefan clashes with his prime minister and falls in love with the gypsy Melitza.

Cast

Critical reception

Sky Movies wrote, "The story creaks like a dowager's stays in this torrid tale of Ruritanian romance and skulduggery based on Ivor Novello's stage success. There are compensations, however, in the tuneful music and elegant production values, to say nothing of gipsies who appear to be addicted to ballet dancing. Victor Jory plays the villainous prime minister with steely determination and an American accent, Mary Ellis is suitably lively although she is hardly a believable Romany. Barry Mackay stands out as an English oil prospector, the role originally played on stage by Novello."[4] Writing for The Spectator in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed review, describing it as "about as bogus as a film could be", but praising Novello's efforts to bring the film "up to date", and appreciating the photography, the camerawork, the direction, and Ellis' "daemonic good looks".[5]

References

  1. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Glamorous Night (1937)". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Glamorous Night (1937) - Brian Desmond Hurst - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  4. ^ "Glamorous Night".
  5. ^ Greene, Graham (7 May 1937). "Generation of Conquerors/Lloyds of London/The Gap/Glamorous Night". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0192812866.)


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