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- 1950 · Docudrama · 1h 41m
Ann Todd later said, "I loved Madeleine; David was never happy about it but I think he did it quite beautifully." Noël Coward told Lean the problem with the film was it never made up its mind whether Madeleine Smith was guilty or not. Clive Donner, who worked on the movie as an editor, thought the main flaw was there was no character in the ...
Madeleine: Directed by David Lean. With Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks. Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- David Lean
- 1950-08-18
Mar 30, 2009 · Madeleine (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Are Quite Alone Affluent Ann Todd (title character) has lured her lover from Glasgow (Ivan Desny) to her family’s country estate, joining him outside the grounds for an encounter overlooking the neighboring village, Todd’s husband, the director David Lean, engaging in some exhilarating cutting, in Madeleine, 1950, based on a famous 1857 murder case.
- David Lean
- Ann Todd
Madeleine. The legendary David Lean directs this retelling of the true-life events that led to the "trial of the century" in Victorian Scotland: the murder of Emile L'Angelier by his lover, the aristocratic Madeleine Smith (played with fervor by Lean's wife, Ann Todd). Part melodrama, part trial film, Madeleine exemplifies Lean's well-wrought ...
Based on a True StoryPlot:The film begins with the purchase of a house in Glasgow by an upper middle-class Victorian family.... Their eldest daughter Madelei...
- 110 min
- 27.9K
- Movie-Buff
Madeleine (1950) David Lean's 1950 film Madeleine is based on a true story, a notorious murder trial from 19th Century Scotland. Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) is a young woman living with her well-to-do family, including her stern father (Leslie Banks), in Victorian Glasgow in the 1850s. Her family has hopes for her to marry soon and one suitor ...
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Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd), the beautiful eldest daughter of a wealthy Glasgow family, begins an illicit love affair with the charming Emile (Ivan Desny), a working-class Frenchman. When she ...
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