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Title: Autumn Crocus


Date: 1934
Type: Romance
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Basil Dean
Producer:

Comment
An unmarried English school teacher (Fay Compton) goes on holiday with a friend of hers to Austria where she falls in love with the owner (Ivor Novello) of the hotel where they are staying. It is about a clas of people with differening view, hers about love and marriage and him happy to have a wife and lover. This set against a back drop of couples representing the changes social attitudes stuffy social norms to an unmarried couple sharing a room together. There is a good performance from Fay Comptom finding and losng love for the first time. This was Ivor Novello's last film.

Actors

Ivor NovelloIvor Novello
Fay ComptonFay Compton
Frederick Ranalow
jack hawkinsJack Hawkins
george ZuccoGeorge Zucco
Muriel AkedMuriel Aked
Esme Church
Diana Beaumont
Gertrude Gould
Mignon O'Doherty

Oscars

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