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Bitter Sweet
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love. As a young girl Sarah falls in love with Carl, a musician, and runs off with him to Vienna. They are happily wed and Carl earns a living conducting a small orchestra. Enter a certain Captain who sets his eye on Sarah and proceeds to shower her with his attentions, much to her dismay.
- Original title
- Bitter Sweet
- Language
- EN
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- GB,US
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CinemaSerf
Jun 13, 2022 · via TMDB
Noël Coward and Herbert Wilcox have combined here to create an engaging little musical romance with a couple of memorable songs and a gently bubbling screenplay. Told by way of a retrospective, Anna Neagle is "Sarah" who marries the penniless musician "Carl" (Fernand Gravey) and heads to Venice where they eke out a meagre living until he is offered a job conducting a small orchestra and she sings along. Her talents manage to attract the unwanted attentions of "Capt. Lutte" (Miles Mander) and very shortly afterwards, things take a tragic turn. It's got something of the silent movie about it - there are extended scenes with no dialogue, and both Neagle and Mander offer us a degree of gesturing that wouldn't have looked out of place ten years earlier. At times this does hold the pace back but we also have Ivy St. Helier's sultry "Manon la Crevette" who delivers "If Love Were All" and Neagle is quite robust singing "I'll See You Again". It was remade with more money and colour, but I'm not sure it needed either. This is quite an entertaining 90 minutes.
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Anna Neagle
Sari Linden
Fernand Gravey
Carl Linden
Miles Mander
Captain Auguste Lutte
Clifford Heatherley
Herr Schlick
Esme Percy
Hugh Devon
Pat Paterson
Dolly
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Doris Zinkeisen
Costume Design
Herbert Wilcox
Director
Herbert Wilcox
Producer
Noël Coward
Novel
Amadeus
Andre Previn at the BBC
Before Sunrise
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Sissi
The Illusionist
The Piano Teacher
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
Operette
Die Deutschmeister
As It Is in Heaven
TÁR
The Great Waltz
In the Bedroom
Joyless Street
The Night Porter
Christine
The Hotel New Hampshire
Vienna
Cracks in Concrete
Amadeus
The Sound of Music
I Still Believe
Ruth & Boaz
Pure Country
Jersey Boys
Battle of the Year
Pure Country 2: The Gift
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Good Vibrations
A Late Quartet
The Sleeping Dictionary
Too Late Blues
Beyond the Sea
Maestro
Mayerling
The Edge of Love
Maria's Lovers
Coda
The Invisible Woman
Aug 21, 1933
