Friday, January 15, 2010

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

Directed by Sidney Franklin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Towering star power is about the only saving grace of this creaky, static early talkie. I don't think the camera moves for the first 15 minutes of the film. Norma Shearer is good as usual as the sickly poetess Elizabeth Barrett. However, Charles Laughton is laughably stuffy and serious as her overbearing father.

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