Frenchman's Creek (1944)
Note: this print runs 87 minutes against a recorded 112 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Cecil Kellaway, David James, Harald Maresch, Moyna Macgill, Arturo de Córdova
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 adventure film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1941 novel of the same name, about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce. Filmed in Technicolor, it was directed by Mitchell Leisen. The musical score was by Victor Young, who incorporated the main theme of French composer Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune as the love theme for the film.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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