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The Phantom Gondola
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Wikipedia article
'The Phantom Gondola' (Italian: 'La gondola delle chimere') is a 1936 French-Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Marcelle Chantal, Henri Rollan and Paul Bernard.Nowell-Smith p.60 The film was a co-production between the two countries shot at the Cines Studios in Rome and based on a 1926 novel by Maurice Dekobra.
Synopsis
A British aristocrat falls in love with a Venetian Count, without realising that he is a spy against the Turks. When she discovers that he has been captured by the notorious Slim Pacha she does everything she can to save him.
Cast
Reception
Writing for 'The Spectator' in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, characterizing it as "a cheap, trivial and pretentious story by a popular writer of rather low reputation." While acknowledging that "it is one of the only two films this last year I have found myself unable to endure till the end," and that he had not therefore completed the entire film, Greene explained his action "for never has a melodrama proceeded so slowly, with such a saga-like tread". (reprinted in: )
See also
* 'Change of Heart' (1928), with Juliette Compton as Lady Winham
* 'Madonna of the Sleeping Cars' (1928), with Claude France as Lady Diana Wynham
* 'Madonna of the Sleeping Cars' (1955), with Gisle Pascal as Lady Diana Wyndham
References
Bibliography
* Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. 'The Companion to Italian Cinema'. Cassell, 1996.
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