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Wikipedia article




'Brief Ecstasy' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Grville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden Travers and Marie Ney.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114020125/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/155695 BFI.org] It was made at Ealing Studios.

Plot



Cast



* Paul Lukas - Professor Paul Bernardy

* Hugh Williams - Jim Wyndham

* Linden Travers - Helen Norwood Bernardy

* Marie Ney - Martha Russell

* Renee Gadd - Marjorie

* Fred Withers - Gardener

* Howard Douglas - Coleman

* Fewlass Llewellyn - Director of Steel Company

* Peter Gawthorne - Chairman of Steel Company

* Norman Pierce - Landlord

Reception



Writing for 'Night and Day' in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, expressing admiration for producer Perceval's ability to "wring twenty shillings' worth out of every pound" and director Grville's recognition that for a film whose subject is sexual passion "the story doesn't matter; it's the atmosphere which counts". Greene praised Grville's "wanton and vivid" depictions of "undifferentiated desire" as well as his French education in "photograph[ing] a woman's body - uncompromisingly", and noted that "the film at its finest [...] generalizes", and "there isn't, thank God, any love in it". (reprinted in: )

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