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I think there are two ways to look at MGM's 'That Forsyte Woman', an 'adaptation' of John Galsworthy's 'Forsyte Saga' (book one), the one in which Soames meets Irene. First, you can compare it with the story as written, and find it full of holes, omissions, misinterpretations, and tacked-on happy endings (a wedding for June?).
That Forsyte Woman: Directed by Compton Bennett. With Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young. Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
- (1.5K)
- Drama, Romance
- Compton Bennett
- 1949-11-03
A quick look at That Forsyte Woman (1949), a Greer Garson MGM feature where Errol Flynn steals the show playing against type with more skill than I would have expected.
That Forsyte Woman (released in the United Kingdom as The Forsyte Saga) is a 1949 American romantic drama film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Greer Garson, Errol Flynn, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young and Janet Leigh.
Irene (Greer Garson), the wife of the wealthy and materialistic Soames Forsyte (Errol Flynn), is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Determined to find love, she falls for the handsome architect ...
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- Compton Bennett
- Drama
- Errol Flynn
This expensive Victorian drama, based on the first book in Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga, is heavy going, despite a luxurious production, wonderful period costumes (designer Walter...
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Adapted from The Man of Property, which is the first novel of The Forsyte Saga by John Galsowrthy, the movie is the story of a dishonest, miserably married woman (Greer Garson) who finds herself fascinated to her niece’s (Janet Leigh) fiancé (Robert Young).
