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St. Martin's Lane / Wings of the Morning (1937)
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| Starring: | Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Charles Laughton, Henry Fonda, Annabella, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Captain R.C. Lyle, D.J. Williams, E.V.H. Emmett, Emmanuelo, Evelyn Ankers, Harry Tate, Helen Haye, John McCormack, Larry Adler, Mark Daly, Philip Frost, Prince Monolulu, Sam Livesey, Sidney Frost, Steve Donoghue, Teddy Underdown, Tyrone Guthrie |
| Director: | Harold D. Schuster, Tim Whelan |
| Genre: | Drama, Foreign, Romance, Romantic Drama, England, British Drama |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Studio: | Kino Video |
| Length: | 174 minutes |
| Released: | July 22, 2003 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | Color, NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:
St. Martin's Lane (1938, 85 min.)
The divinely glamourous encounters the charmingly coarse in this music-filled drama set in the streets of 1930s London, graced with the extraordinary talents of three of the most celebrated actors of British stage and screen.
Charles Laughton stars as Charlie, a busker -- or street musician -- who takes a feisty girl of the streets (Vivien Leigh) under his wing and endeavors to transform her into a musical entertainer. So natural is the talent and so fierce the determination of the beautiful ingenue that she quickly leaves the gaslights of seedy Westminster for the footlights of Picadilly Square. Falling under the captivating spell of a sophisticated songwriter (Rex Harrison), she christens herself "Liberty" and becomes the toast of society, while Charlie forlornly wanders the sidewalks of London.
In some ways a British rendition of the American rags-to-riches musical, St. Martin's Lane is a bittersweet romance intensified by rich, moody photography and doses of gutter realism absent from its more frothy Hollywood counterparts. This unorthodox approach yields stellar performances and a romantic drama that is as emotionally compelling as it is musically buoyant.
Wings of the Morning (1937, 89 min.)
The first British feature shot in full Technicolor, Wings of the Morning is an enchanting rendition of Donn Byrne's fables of life and love among the gypsy wagons and lordly manors of Europe in a bygone era.
French film star Annabella portrays a beautiful young Romany girl who, to fulfill the prophecy of her ancestors, must marry a nobleman. She defies the hand of fate, however, when she becomes enamored with a Canadian horse trainer (Henry Fonda) and joins forces with him to enter the Derby on a gypsy horse named Wings.
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