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Peter Ibbetson is a 1935 American black-and-white drama / fantasy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. The film is loosely based on the 1891 novel of the same name by George du Maurier. A tale of a love that transcends all obstacles, it relates the story of two youngsters who are separated in childhood and ...
- Louis D. Lighton
- Ernst Toch
Peter Ibbetson: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino. A Victorian-era architect commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables falls in love with the Duchess.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Henry Hathaway
- 1935-11-07
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter (Gary Cooper) is an architect with little time ...
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- Gary Cooper
- Henry Hathaway
- Fantasy
Peter Ibbetson is a film adaptation of the novel and play by George Du Maurier and John Nathaniel Raphael, about a man who falls in love with his childhood sweetheart after being sentenced to life in prison for killing her. The film stars Henry Hathaway, Gary Cooper, and Ida Lupino, and was released in 1935 by Paramount.
- Henry Hathaway, Ray Lissner
- Gary Cooper
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Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love is reactivated, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world. — Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>.
Aug 10, 2021 · The final 20 minutes is a fever-pitch of surrealistic images, with Peter’s prison cell and Lang’s lighting influenced by Raphael’s 1514 fresco “Deliverance of Saint Peter,” which now hangs in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Gary Cooper and Ann Harding star in “Peter Ibbetson,” a romance embraced by the French Surrealists.
Aug 9, 2021 · by Derek Smith. August 9, 2021. Henry Hathaway’s 1935 gothic melodrama Peter Ibbetson is completely out of step with most other films of its era. Its more surrealistic flourishes often pull from the visual vocabulary of silent cinema, while its labyrinthine narrative structure is far more attuned to the Hollywood filmmaking to come in the 1940s.
