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Hatter's Castle (film)

Hatter's Castle
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Directed by Lance Comfort
Produced by Isadore Goldsmith
Written by Rodney Ackland (additional dialogue)
Screenplay by Paul Merzbach
Rudolf Bernauer
Based on novel by A.J. Cronin
Starring Robert Newton
Deborah Kerr
James Mason
Emlyn Williams
Music by Horace Shepherd
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by Douglas Robertson
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • 2 February 1942 (1942-02-02) (UK)
  • 19 April 1948 (1948-04-19) (US)
Running time
102 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Hatter's Castle is a 1942 British film noir based on the 1931 novel Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility. The film was made by Paramount British Pictures and stars Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, and Emlyn Williams. It is believed to be the only film that depicts the Tay Bridge disaster.

Variety wrote, "Here is a film, if ever there was one, that is best indicative of one player’s superlative performance. The player, Robert Newton, disregards tradition and enacts the featured male role without bombast or any sort of vocal pyrotechnics. There is little in the picturized version of A.J. Cronin’s bestseller that is not already stale and the plot travels along stereotyped lines to an obvious conclusion. It is, however, artistically produced, photographed and acted...The leading lady is Deborah Kerr, charming and sincere as the daughter; the juvenile lead of Doctor Renwick is restrainedly played by James Mason." while more recently, Time Out called it "An entertaining slice of Victorian melodrama adapted from AJ Cronin's novel. Not quite Gothic, but edging that way through Newton's performance (one of his more controlled efforts) as the social-climbing Glasgow hatter...Damped down by flat direction, but the sets and camerawork are excellent."



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