72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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FRENCHMAN’S CREEK / Frenchman's Creek

Mitchel Leisen
USA
Synopsis

Dona St. columb beats a hasty retreat from London in an attempt to escape from her boring husband and his unrelenting and lecherous best friend, Lord Rockingham. Moving into her Cornwall estate, often witness to the comings and goings of French pirates, Dona teams up with their leader, getting up to all sorts of mischief until her husband and Lord Rockingham put paid to her fun when they arrive to apprehend the freebooters. 

Director
Mitchel Leisen
Screenplay
Talbot Jennings
Plot
Daphne DuMaurier
Photography
Georges Barnes, (Charles Lang)
Edition
Alma Macrorie
Music
Victor Young
Cast
Joan Fontaine (Dona St. Columb), Arturo de Cordova (The Frenchman), Basil Rathbone (Lord Rockingham), Nigel Bruce (Lord Godolphin)
Running Time
112 m.
Country
USA
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