Eclipse Series 36: THREE WICKED MELODRAMAS FROM GAINSBOROUGH PICTURES: CRABTREE, Arthur: Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
CRABTREE, Arthur (United Kingdom)
Madonna of the Seven Moons [1945]
Eclipse Series 36
DVD
Madonna of the Seven Moons [1945]
Eclipse Series 36
DVD
A lurid tale of sex and psychosis, Madonna of the Seven Moons, directed by Arthur Crabtree, is among the wildest of the Gainsborough melodramas. Set in Italy, it begins as a comparatively sedate tale about a respectable, convent-raised woman (Phyllis Calvert) who is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager. But when her grown daughter returns from school, her life begins to unravel in monumentally surprising ways.
110 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writers
Arthur Crabtree was 45 when he directed Madonna of the Seven Moons.
From the novel The Madonna of the Seven Moons by Margery Lawrence.
Screenplay by Roland Pertwee.
Other Crabtree films in the Collection:
#92: Fiend Without a Face (1958)
The Film
Other Crabtree films in the Collection:
#92: Fiend Without a Face (1958)
The Film
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