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Movie
Rembrandt
Synopsis
Lightning steadfastly refused to strike twice for the director/actor team of Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton. Though the pair had scored an international success with the 1933 quasi-biopic The Private Life of Henry VIII, they couldn't make the magic happen again with 1936's Rembrandt. Laughton's performance is solid throughout, and Korda's recreation of Rembrandt's Holland is meticulous, but the film suffers from a lack of overall dramatic tension. Except for his artistic achievements and the deaths of his two wives, nothing really "happens" to Rembrandt--at least nothing as colorful as the escapades of Henry VIII. The best element of the film is the successful effort by cinematographer Georges Perinal to recreate the famous "Rembrandt lighting" effect in each scene. Laughton is given fine support by Elsa Lanchester (his real-life wife), and by legendary stage star Gertrude Lawrence in a rare film role.
Cast
- Charles Laughton
- Gertrude Lawrence
- Elsa Lanchester
- Henry Hewitt
- Edward Chapman
- Walter Hudd
- Roger Livesey
- John Bryning
- Allan Jeayes
- John Clements
- Raymond Huntley
- Abraham Sofaer
- Lawrence Hanray
- Austin Trevor
- Gertrude Musgrove
- Basil Gill
- Edmund Willard
- Marius Goring
- Richard Gofe
- Meinhart Maur
- George Merritt
- John Turnbull
- Sam Livesey
- William Fagan
- Louis Broughton
- Frederick Burtwell
- Baroness Barany
- Barrie Livesey
- Herbert Lomas
- Jack Livesey
- Quinton McPherson
- James Carney
- Roger Wellesley
- Byron Webber
- Bellenden Powell
- Charles Paton
- Hector Abbas
- Leonard Sharp
- George Pughe
- Jerrold Robertshaw
- Evelyn Ankers
- Barry Livesey
- Georges Périnal
- Vincent Korda
- Ned Mann
- Francis D. Lyon
- John Armstrong
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Muir Mathieson
- Richard Angst
- Lajos Biró
- Arthur Wimperis
- William Hornbeck
- William W. Hornbeck