The Queen of Spades (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 15, 2019
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anton Walbrook & Edith Evans | |
Performer: | Ronald Howard, Yvonne Mitchell, Mary Jerrold, Antonio Margheriti, Miles Malleson, Michael Medwin, Athene Seyler & Ivor Barnard | |
Directed by | Thorold Dickinson | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Art Direction by | William Kellner | |
Produced by | Anatole de Grunwald | |
Director of Photography: | Otto Heller |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Gripping and intricately designed.
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Guardian
Opulence of Imperial Russia at the beginning of the 19th century provides a colorful background for this filmization of Alexander Pushkin's short story, which brings to the screen a legend of gambling and intrigue.
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Variety
The Queen of Spades is a treasured relic of a time when the British cinema momentarily abandoned its good manners and revelled gloriously in visual and emotional excess.
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The Arts Desk
Rating: 4/5 --
Pushkin's marvellously histrionic tale of cupidity and terrible vengeance gets a suitably wild-eyed treatment in Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film.
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Time Out
Otto Heller's chiaroscuro cinematography and Oliver Messel's Gothic designs play vital roles in Dickinson's thorough demolition of period genteelness for the horror in it.
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CinePassion
The Queen of Spades, a stylish, polished melodrama based on the Pushkin novella, is [Thorold Dickinson's] most accomplished film.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Anton Walbrook is on peerlessly maniacal form.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the Russian army in the nineteenth Century. His comrades in arms play cards nightly, but he cannot afford to join them until one night he dreams that he has gained from a mysterious aging countess her secret for winning at faro--a secret which legend has it she has sold her soul to obtain. This story has been filmed at least a dozen times, but this is by far the best version. Eight of the versions were silent films and another version was done as recently as 1965. A period piece, the settings and costumes are superb.
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- Sales Rank: 106,623
- UPC: 738329240127
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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