| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Jim Morahan William Kellner Michael Relph |
General Film Distributors (UK)
Directed by Basil Dearden
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Elaborate costume drama set in late 1600s Germany about an unhappily married princess who falls in love with a visiting count. Joan Greenwood is the doomed Sophie, forced to marry a selfish, womanizing future King of England who doesn't love her either. They bear children for purely political reasons, but even they are taken away from her. Stewart Granger is the dark-haired, brown-eyed Swedish count who is hired to fight in a losing war. He's also involved with a middle aged countess with political connections. It all ends, predictably, unhappily. It's mostly boring melodrama, but director Dearden does manage to spice it up a bit with occasional Gothic touches and dramatically composed scenes. The print is in dire need of restoration to bring back its original Technicolor brilliance, the one shown on TCM is barely adequate.
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