British International Pictures who produced this film were responsible for the production of Britain's first full length sound film Blackmail.They turned ailments into part talkies by making the second half into talking pictures.In this instance they effectively remade the film as a talking picture using a few sequences from the silent film.Presumably it must have been worth their while as this film would serve as the bottom half of a double bill for quota purposes.Ray Mill and was quite caustic about this film in his autobiography,but it is an entertaining and interesting curio.Also interesting to see Moore Marriott a few years before he found fame with Will Hay.
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Creaky Early Brit Sound Meller
lchadbou-326-2659219 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
The Lady From The Sea is a creaky early British talkie melodrama, of interest mainly for the young Ray Milland, before he came over to Hollywood, and for some nice cinematography. In fact the DVD I watched brought out especially well the sharp lighting and carefully thought out compositions from famous lenser Theodor Sparkuhl. Milland plays a lifeboatman off the dangerous English Goodwins coast who is injured at sea just before he is supposed to be married, to his childhood sweetheart. A French femme fatale(played by the exotic Mona Goya)whom he has rescued, flirts with him. When his brother tries to break up the threatening romance, she comes on to the brother instead, and he plays along so that the Milland character will give her up, but the brother suddenly dies in an accident. Despondent,the lifeboatman disappears just as his mother has taken sick. After a big rescue scene in a storm, he returns in time to see his mother recover and realize that his first love is really the one for him. The production was shot at Elstree studios but released stateside by Paramount.
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