Man in Grey, The

Synopsis: Feature film. Costume melodrama, told in flashback, and based on the novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. A gypsy fortune teller warns Regency beauty Clarissa that her friendship with downtrodden actress Hesther will be disastrous. The prediction is proved right as the two women meet up years later at a finishing school and become involved with the sadistic Lord Rohan and gentleman-turned-highwayman Rokeby, with the inevitably tragic results. In one brief scene, on the way to the theatre, where by chance Clarissa has discovered that Hesther is appearing, she is held up by a highwayman, Rokeby, whom she is later intrigued to recognise on stage playing Othello to Hesther’s Desdemona.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 1943
Duration: 116 mins

Director

Leslie Arliss

Producer

Edward Black

Cinematographer

Arthur Crabtree

Screenplay

Doreen Montgomery; Leslie Arliss; Margaret Kennedy

Music

Cedric Mallabey

Costume

Elizabeth Haffenden

Cast

Stewart Granger	Peter/Swindon Rokeby (Othello)
Margaret Lockwood	Hesther Shaw/Barbary (Desdemona)
James Mason	Lord Rohan
Phyllis Calvert	Clarissa Richmond/Lady Rohan

Notes: A four-minute video clip which shows the Othello scene may be streamed by authorised users by visiting The MAN IN GREY entry on Screenonline - http://www.screenonline.org.uk
General: The film made big stars of James Mason and Margaret Lockwood.
History: The 1996 video release is 88mins.
Reviews: Monthly Film Bulletin, vol.10. no. 116, July 1943, p.74.

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