24 Hours of a Woman's Life

24 Hours of a Woman's Life
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Directed by Victor Saville
Produced by Ivan Foxwell
Written by Warren Chetham Strode
Based on novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig
Starring Merle Oberon
Richard Todd
Music by Robert Gill
Philip Green
Cinematography Christopher Challis
Edited by Richard Best
Production
company
Distributed by Associated British-Pathé
Release date
  • September 10, 1952 (1952-09-10) (London)
Running time
 90 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office £95,702 (UK)[1]

24 Hours of a Woman's Life is a 1952 British film directed by Victor Saville and starring Merle Oberon. It is loosely based on Stefan Zweig's 100 page novella.[2][3][4] The film is also known as Affair in Monte Carlo.

Plot

Monsieur Blanc, the middle-aged proprietor of a café 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 café 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

Critical reception

The Spectator described it as "a film of such artificiality and bathos the very typewriter keys cling together to avoid describing it."[5] TV Guide called the film a "poor sudser, although the background of the romantic Riviera and its fabulous casino provides some exotic interest."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p499
  2. ↑ Nicholas Lezard (2003-09-20). "Review: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  3. ↑ Affair in Monte Carlo at TCMDB
  4. ↑ "24 Hours of a Woman's Life | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  5. ↑ "CINEMA » 11 Sep 1952 » The Spectator Archive". Archive.spectator.co.uk. 1952-09-11. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Affair In Monte Carlo Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
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