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24 Hours of a Woman's Life

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'24 Hours of a Woman's Life', also known as 'Affair in Monte Carlo', is a 1952 British romantic drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Merle Oberon, Richard Todd and Leo Genn. It is loosely based on the novella by Stefan Zweig.[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/66842/Affair-in-Monte-Carlo/ 'Affair in Monte Carlo'] at TCMDB Produced by ABPC, it was shot at the company's Elstree Studios and on location in Monaco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Terence Verity.

Plot



Monsieur Blanc, the middle-aged proprietor of a caf in Antibes, is eagerly preparing for his wedding to Henriette. He is devastated, however, when Henriette runs away with a young man she apparently only met the day before. Robert Sterling, a writer and one of the caf patrons, tells the other diners that he has seen the same thing before: someone falling in love with a complete stranger.

He was playing host to Linda, a young widow whom he knew well, and three other guests aboard his yacht anchored in Monte Carlo. When he persuades her to visit the casino one night, she became irresistibly attracted to an unstable young man who became suicidal after losing all his money at roulette. Sterling describes how they fell deeply in love, and how they then had to face difficult decisions about the future.

Cast



* Merle Oberon as Linda

* Richard Todd as A Young Man

* Leo Genn as Robert Stirling

* Stephen Murray as L'Abb Benoit

* Peter Reynolds as Peter

* Joan Dowling as Mrs. Barry

* June Clyde as Mrs. Roche

* Peter Illing as Monsieur Blanc

*Jacques B. Brunius as Concierge, Pension Lisa

* Isabel Dean as Miss Johnson

* Peter Jones as Bill

* Yvonne Furneaux as Henriette

* Mara Lane as Alice Brown

* Robert Ayres as Frank Brown

* Cyril Smith as Harry

* Mark Baker as Mr. Rohe

* Moultrie Kelsall as Murdoch

* Trader Faulkner as Mr. Barry

* Jeanne Pali as Mme Blanc

* Rene Poirier as Attendant, Hotel Royalo

* Marguerite D'Alvarez as Mme Benoit

* Virginia Bedard as Lady in Cook's Office

* Gordon Bell as Clerk in Cook's Office

* Jill Clifford as Estelle Hunter

* Peter Hobbes as David Hunter

Critical reception



'The Spectator' described it as "a film of such artificiality and bathos the very typewriter keys cling together to avoid describing it." 'TV Guide' called the film a "poor sudser, although the background of the romantic Riviera and its fabulous casino provides some exotic interest."

References




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