Portrait from Life
| Portrait from Life | |
|---|---|
.jpg) British quad poster (1950s re-release) | |
| Directed by | Terence Fisher |
| Written by |
Muriel Box Sydney Box Frank Harvey |
| Story by | David Evans |
| Starring | Mai Zetterling |
| Music by | Benjamin Frankel |
| Cinematography | Jack Asher |
| Edited by | Vladimir Sagovsky |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
Release dates | 15 December 1948 (London) |
Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £132,800[1] |
| Box office |
£150,000 (by 1953)[1] 245,405 admissions (France)[2] |
Portrait from Life (also known as Lost Daughter, and in the U.S. as The Girl in the Painting)[3] is a 1948 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Mai Zetterling and Robert Beatty.[4]
Cast
- Mai Zetterling as Lidia
- Robert Beatty as Campbell Reid
- Guy Rolfe as Major Lawrence
- Herbert Lom as Fritz Kottler Hendlemann
- Patrick Holt as Ferguson
- Arnold Marlé as Professor Franz Menzel
- Sybille Binder as Eitel Hendlemann
- Thora Hird as Mrs. Skinner
- Gerard Heinz as Heine
- Yvonne Owen as Helen
- Gordon Bell as Captain Roberts
- Nelly Arno as Anna Skutetsky[5]
Critical reception
The New York Times wrote, "the new picture at the Little Carnegie stems from an intriguing idea, and there are several very effective sequences in the drama, plus a fine performance by the Swedish actress, Mai Zetterling. Indeed, if the whole of The Girl in the Painting were as good as its parts, the posting of this notice would be a much more pleasant task. Too much, rather than too little, story and plodding direction are the principal faults";[6] while Allmovie described it as "an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures."[3]
Box office
The film made a profit of £4,100.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
- ↑ Box office information for Terence Fisher films in France at Box office Story
- 1 2 Hal Erickson. "Portrait from Life (1948) - Terence Fisher - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ↑ Hal Erickson. "Portrait from Life (1948) - Terence Fisher - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ↑ "Nelly Arno". BFI. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DEEDE133FE33BBC4A51DFBE668382659EDE