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1952 film by Victor Saville From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
24 Hours of a Woman's Life, also known as Affair in Monte Carlo, is a 1952 British romantic drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Merle Oberon, Richard Todd and Leo Genn. It is loosely based on the 1927 novella by Stefan Zweig.[2][3][4] Produced by ABPC, it was shot at the company's Elstree Studios and on location in Monaco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Terence Verity.
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![Thumb](#/media/File:"24_Hours_of_a_Woman's_life"_(1952).jpg) U.S. poster | |
| Directed by | Victor Saville |
| Written by | Warren Chetham Strode |
| Based on | novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig |
| Produced by | Ivan Foxwell |
| Starring | Merle Oberon Richard Todd Leo Genn |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Richard Best |
| Music by | Robert Gill Philip Green |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Associated British-Pathé Allied Artists (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £95,702 (UK)[1] |
Monsieur Blanc, the middle-aged proprietor of a café in Antibes, is eagerly preparing for his wedding to Henriette. He is devastated, however, when Henriette runs away with a young man she apparently only met the day before. Robert Sterling, a writer and one of the café patrons, tells the other diners that he has seen the same thing before: someone falling in love with a complete stranger.
He was playing host to Linda, a young widow whom he knew well, and three other guests aboard his yacht anchored in Monte Carlo. When he persuades her to visit the casino one night, she became irresistibly attracted to an unstable young man who became suicidal after losing all his money at roulette. Sterling describes how they fell deeply in love, and how they then had to face difficult decisions about the future.
Actor Peter Reynolds was under contract to Associated British at the time.[5]
The Spectator described it as "a film of such artificiality and bathos the very typewriter keys cling together to avoid describing it."[6] TV Guide called the film a "poor sudser, although the background of the romantic Riviera and its fabulous casino provides some exotic interest."[7]
Variety called it "novelettish."[8]
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