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The Passionate Stranger is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Muriel Box released in USA on 27 august 1957 with Margaret Leighton

The Passionate Stranger (1957)

The Passionate Stranger
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Released in USA 27 august 1957
Length 1h37
Directed by
Genres Comedy
Rating61% 3.0890453.0890453.0890453.0890453.089045

The Passionate Stranger (U.S. A Novel Affair) is a 1957 British drama film, directed by Muriel Box and starring Margaret Leighton and Ralph Richardson. It uses the film within a film device, with the "real" part of the plot shot in black-and-white and the "fictional" element in colour. The interior scenes were shot at Shepperton Studios, with location filming taking place at Chilworth, Surrey.

Box stated that the film was intended "to debunk the sentimental novel...a mild satire on romance as opposed to reality, and the unhappy consequences of confusing the two". New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther understood the intention, but described the premise as "thin and even tedious" and felt that the lengthy central fantasy sequence "is so ponderous, and it so completely outweighs the little black-and-white whimsy that surrounds it, that it drags down the whole idea." He did however concede that "thanks to adroit performances by Miss Leighton and Sir Ralph...this little bit of nonsense from Muriel and Sydney Box is not quite as flimsy and pretentious as it may at first sound."

Synopsis

Judith Wynter (Leighton) is a novelist who pens torrid escapist romantic fiction for the popular women's market, although in real life she is a respectable, unassuming woman, happily married to husband Roger (Richardson). She uses people she knows and situations she encounters as the raw material for her fictional flights of fancy. As Roger recuperates from an illness which leaves him temporarily immobile, she pens the rough draft of her latest novel, a lurid tale of a bored and unsatisifed woman with a pompous disabled husband she despises, who embarks on a wild affair with her chauffeur and finds herself expecting his child. The husband dismisses the chauffeur, who vows revenge, and matters escalate melodramatically towards a deadly conclusion.

Actors

Margaret Leighton

(Judith Wynter / Leonie Hathaway)Ralph Richardson

(Roger Wynter / Sir Clement)Patricia Dainton

(Emily / Betty)Carlo Giustini

(Carlo / Mario)Ada Reeve

(Old Woman)
And :
Frederick Piper
Michael Shepley
Thorley Walters
Allan Cuthbertson
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