Laughing Anne

Laughing Anne
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Produced by Herbert Wilcox
Written by Pamela Bower
Based on Story and play by Joseph Conrad
Starring Margaret Lockwood
Wendell Corey
Forrest Tucker
Ronald Shiner
Music by Anthony Collins
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by Basil Warren
Production
company
Herbert Wilcox Productions (as Imperadio)
Distributed by Republic (UK) & (US)
Release dates
 September 1953 (UK)
Running time
 90 mins
Country UK/US
Language English

Laughing Anne is a 1953 British adventure film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker and Ronald Shiner.[1] Its plot follows a sea captain who has a tempestuous affair with a French singer. It was adapted from the short story Because of the Dollars by Joseph Conrad, and on his 1923 two-act play, Laughing Anne.[2]

Cast

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote, "Always a man for pictorial respectability, Mr. Wilcox does quite nicely by an unelaborate budget, letting the Technicolor camera play over turn - of - the - century, gaslit rooms, shipboard and island exteriors and interiors. Several shots of a schooner braving awesome jungle waters are excellent. Furthermore, the film is based on a work by that master yarn-spinner and psychological prober, Joseph Conrad. The trimmings remain. But Mr. Wilcox's casual direction and a lusterless adaptation by Pamela Bower compress the story into a plodding reprise of thwarted love, sacrifice and skulduggery...In the most colorless casting, Mr. Corey is quietly effective, Miss Lockwood ranges from skittish to grim, and Mr. Forrest glares or snarls. As a sailor, Ronald Shiner takes care of the humor department. And in the role of Mr. Conrad, no less, a bearded, scholarly-looking actor named Robert Harris hears the story from Mr. Forrest in flashback on the sidelines. This much, undoubtedly, is as it should be." [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Laughing Anne (1953)". BFI.
  2. ↑ "Laughing Anne (1953) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9902e4d91131e53bbc4053dfb366838f649ede

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