Barretts of Wimpole Street (Motion picture : 1934)
Title:
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (DVD)/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; directed by Sidney Franklin ; screen play by Ernest Vajda, Claudine West and Donald Ogden Stewart.
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Full screen (1.37:1). From the play by Rudolf Besier. Originally released as a motion picture in 1934. Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ralph Forbes, Marion Clayton, Ian Wolfe, Ferdinand Munier, Una O'Connor, Leo Carroll, Vernon Downing, Neville Clark, Matthew Smith, Robert Carleton, Allan Conrad, Peter Hobbes.
Summary:
A dramatic portrayal of the romance of poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The invalid poetess who regains her health after falling in love with the famous poet elopes with the poet against the wishes of her tyrannical father, who exhibits an incestuous attachment for Elizabeth, as well as an over domineering control of all the Barrett siblings in their personal adult relationships. The story is set in London, England, starting in the year 1845.
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