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Autumn Crocus


Date: 1934
Type: Romance
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Basil Dean
Producer:

Comment/Synopsis

An unmarried English school teacher (Fay Compton) goes on holiday with a friend of hers to Austria where she falls in love with the owner (Ivor Novello) of the hotel where they are staying. It is about a class of people with differening view, hers about love and marriage and him happy to have a wife and lover. This is set against a back drop of couples representing the changes social attitudes stuffy social norms to an unmarried couple sharing a room together. There is a good performance from Fay Comptom finding and losing love for the first time. This was Ivor Novello's last film.

Actors


Ivor NovelloIvor Novello
Fay ComptonFay Compton
Frederick Ranalow
jack hawkinsJack Hawkins
george ZuccoGeorge Zucco
Muriel AkedMuriel Aked
Esme Church
Diana BeaumontDiana Beaumont
Gertrude Gould
Mignon O'Doherty

Oscars

None
Production
Associated Talking Pictures