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Of Human Bondage: Directed by Ken Hughes, Henry Hathaway, Bryan Forbes. With Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna. A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.
Of Human Bondage (1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Of Human Bondage: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, Edmund Gwenn. A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress.
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- Edmund Goulding
- 1946-07-20
Of Human Bondage is a 1964 British drama film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey in the roles played by Bette Davis and Leslie Howard three decades earlier in the original film version.
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Sensitive, club-footedartist Philip Carey is a Briton who has been studying painting in Paris for four years. His art teacher tells him his work lacks talent, so he returns to London to become a medical doctor, but his moodiness and chronic self-doubt make it difficult for him to keep up in his schoolwork. Philip falls passionately in love with tea...
In 1932, director Michael Curtiz showed Cromwell a print of his recently completed film The Cabin in the Cotton because Cromwell was interested in casting its leading man, Richard Barthelmess, in a project he was preparing. Instead of Barthelmess, Cromwell's attention was drawn to Bette Davis, whose portrayal of a femme fatale brought to mind the s...
Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times said the Maugham novel "has come through the operation of being transferred to the screen in an unexpectedly healthy fashion. It may not possess any great dramatic strength, but the very lifelike quality of the story and the marked authenticity of its atmosphere cause the spectators to hang on every word uttered ...
In James Baldwin's 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, protagonist John Grimes sees Of Human Bondage in cinema. The movie title is never revealed but the tagline "There’s a fool like him in every family — and a woman next door to take him over"is mentioned and the plotline is described in detail over three pages in the first chapter of the novel...
In 1962, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Consequently, there are numerous DVD and online streaming copies available. WarnerMedia is the current owner of the bulk of the RKO library and a UK DVD was issued in 2003 by Warner Home...
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1. Brown, Gene (1995). Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry from Its Beginnings to the Present (1st ed.). New York City: Wiley. p. 119. ISBN 0-02-860429-6. 2. Canham, Kingsley. 1976. The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 5: King Vidor, John Cromwell, Mervyn LeRoy. The Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0-498-01689-7
Of Human Bondage at IMDbOf Human Bondage at AllMovieOf Human Bondage at the TCM Movie DatabaseOf Human Bondage at the American Film Institute CatalogBased On: Of Human Bondage. Narrative Location: London, Paris. Subject: gender relations, infidelity, love triangle, mate choice, obsession, psychological abuse, psychological manipulation, romantic love, toxic relationship, unrequited love. Time Period: 20th century.
Find out who starred in Of Human Bondage, a drama about a medical student's ill-fated love affair with a flirtatious waitress who becomes a prostitute. Learn more about the cast and their performances now.
