Moscow Nights (film)

This film is not to be confused with the very popular Russian Song Moscow Nights

Moscow Nights
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Produced by Alexis Granowsky
Written by Erich Seipmann
Anthony Asquith
Based on an unpublished novel by Pierre Benoît
Starring Laurence Olivier
Penelope Dudley-Ward
Harry Baur
Music by Muir Mathieson
Cinematography Philip Tannura
Edited by Francis D. Lyon
Production
company
Distributed by General Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
 6 November 1935 (London) (UK)
Running time
 100 minutes
Country United Kingdom

Moscow Nights (released as I Stand Condemned in the United States) is a 1935 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Harry Baur. The screenplay concerns a wounded officer who falls in love with his nurse.

Plot summary

During the First World War a wounded Russian officer Captain Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse.[1][2]

Cast

Critical response

Writing for The Spectator in 1935, Graham Greene called the film "completely bogus", and "the worst, as well as the most ballyhooed, film of the year". Asquith and Dudley-Ward were criticized in particular, with Greene describing Asquith's direction as puerile, and Dudley-Ward's acting as "country-house charades". Although Greene praised the acting from the rest of the film's stars, and noted that Asquith's past direction had been characterized by trickery, he commented that "now [Asquith's] bag of tricks seems empty".[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027989/
  2. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43211
  3. ↑ Greene, Graham (15 November 1935). "Last Love/Moscow Nights/Oil for the Lamps of China". The Spectator. (reprinted in: John Russel, Taylor, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0192812866. )


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