Hatter's Castle (film)
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| Directed by | Lance Comfort |
| Produced by | Isadore Goldsmith |
| Written by | Rodney Ackland (additional dialogue) |
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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 |
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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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