- Actors: Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee, Hugo Haas, Edward Everett Horton
- Directors: Douglas Sirk
- Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: VCI Entertainment
- Release Date: Oct 20 2009
- Run Time: 106 minutes
- ASIN: B002KLQ35I
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3.0 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
offbeat but interesting small movie., Feb 28 2010
By Frankdecavalcante "bargain hunter" - Published on Amazon.com
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This looks like a low budget version of a classic Russian story. But it has the advantage of a fine cast, interesting story, and assured direction. George Sanders, as ever, is outstanding, and Linda Darnell in her vixen mode, is quite good.
16 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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CONSIDER THE FILM NOT THE DIRECTOR, Sep 24 2009
By Olivier Comte - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Summer Storm (DVD)
Literary adaptations are a dangerous thing. Fortunately, the action takes place in 1918, then 1911.A drama needs a strong photography, here provided by the great Eugene Schuftan, uncredited because he was not an union member
(Archie Stout not a cinematographer to forget is credited. Now we need a good transfer and VCI is usually to be trusted.
SIRK had escaped the indignity of such shooting titles as STRANGE CONFESSION and GOODBYE MY LOVE.
This is really his film, he wrote the dialogue, with twin credit under the pseudonym of MICHAEL O'HARA, but we are not in a classroom and must forget about the other films because that early (12/1943-1/1944) second US film stands on its own legs.
In 1918, Kharkov, an impoverished aristocrat, EDWARD EVERETT HORTON, tries to have a manuscript published by the newspaper now owned by
ANNA LEE,and confesses that the manuscript was written by GEORGE SANDERS seven years earlier.
Back to 1911 SANDERS, local magistrate, engaged to LEE, desires the ambitious LINDA DARNELL, equally loved by the rich HORTON. DARNELL is soon murdered, after some romantic interludes.
CHARLES HAAS ,overseer of HORTON's estate is sent to Siberia.
And the murderer is: I won't tell you. LEE reads it and takes measures.
It's a brilliantly written and directed drama. Not a flamboyant melodrama which would be inappropriate and would weaken he characters.It only lacks more money.
DARNELL and SANDERS are very good.
We are still waiting for the 3 great SIRK pictures: SHOCKPROOF (Columbia), THE FIRST LEGION (U-A) and THUNDER ON THE HILL (Universal).
SIRK has become a dead idol (better than a living idol, nobody expects the French Inquisition) and it blurs the pleasure of his films.
Everything is now sacred: you can't put down any of his films without getting insulted.
He was a true professional who wouldn't have approved of that cultural fanaticism.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Linda Darnell is beautiful as usual in all her films., Dec 5 2009
By J. Ford - Published on Amazon.com
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Linda Darnell is beautiful as usual in all her films and George Sanders great as usual. I wish the movie had been in color but it wasn't. Linda Darnell is a young peasant woman who aspires to more in life and entrances three men in the process. The story line was from a Chekov play about pre-revolutionary Russia.Although I liked the story and the actors, it appeared to have been produced on a low budget. The backgrowund sets looked so artificial as if they had been drawn with a lead pencil, shaded. and then enlarged. It was a pitiful rendering of one dimensional backdrops of poorly drawn Russian Onion spired churhes, etc. I just couldn't get past how phoney it looked except for Linda Darnell's costumes.
Overall, I would recommend seeing it, if only to see Linda Darnell and George Sanders. The studio that made this low budget movie should be ashamed for not having spent a bit more money on its production which could have made for a much better movie.
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