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Strawberry Roan is a British film of genre Drama directed by Maurice Elvey with William Hartnell

Strawberry Roan (1945)

Strawberry Roan
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Length 1h24
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Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating57% 2.884912.884912.884912.884912.88491

Strawberry Roan is a 1945 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring William Hartnell - later to become famous as television's first Doctor on the British Sci-Fi series Doctor Who - and Carol Raye. The screenplay was developed from the 1932 novel of the same name by Wiltshire author A. G. Street, at the time a very popular, well-known and widely admired work.

Synopsis

Farmer Chris Lowe (Hartnell) meets and falls in love with Molly (Raye), a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake. She tries to quell her unhappiness by spending her husband's money, but goes to excess and eventually leaves Chris facing financial ruin. In despair she takes off on her horse and suffers a fatal fall, leaving Chris destitute and overcome with guilt.

Actors

William Hartnell

(Chris Lowe)Marguerite Viby

(Sussie Blom)Carol Raye

(Molly Lowe)Gunnar Björnstrand

(Harry Hellberg)Walter Fitzgerald

(Morley)
And :
Erik "Bullen" Berglund
Wylie Watson
Julia Cæsar
Petula Clark
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