Directed by:
Sidney FranklinScreenplay:
Lillian HellmanCinematography:
Gregg TolandComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher, John Halliday, Henrietta Crosman, Frieda Inescort, Claud Allister, Cora Sue Collins (more)VOD (1)
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Samuel Goldwyn's The Dark Angel is a sumptuously produced soap opera with a poignant "Enoch Arden" style denouement. Fredric March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star respectively as Alan Trent, Kitty Vane and Gerald Shannon, friends since childhood. Though Gerald is deeply in love with Kitty, it is Alan who wins her hand in marriage. But before the wedding can take place, WW I intervenes, and both Alan and Gerald march off with their regiments. Blinded on the battlefield, Alan gallantly pretends to have been killed so that Kitty will not feel obligated to care for him. Eventually, however, she discovers that he's still alive, which leads to the film's most memorable scene, in which the proud Alan painstakingly arranges all the furniture and bric-and-brac in his room to make it seem as though he can still see. (official distributor synopsis)
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Fredric March
USA
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Merle Oberon
India
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Herbert Marshall
UK
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Janet Beecher
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John Halliday
USA
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Henrietta Crosman
USA
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Frieda Inescort
UK
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Claud Allister
UK
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Cora Sue Collins
USA
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George P. Breakston
France
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Holmes Herbert
UK
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Tom Moore
Ireland
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Robert Hale
UK
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David Torrence
UK
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Sam Harris
Australia
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Colin Kenny
Ireland
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Charles Tannen
USA
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Sarah Edwards
UK
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Claude King
UK
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Olaf Hytten
UK
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