Rembrandt
Summary:
Lightning steadfastly refused to strike twice for the director/actor team of Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton. Though the pair had scored an international success with the 1933 quasi-biopic The Private Life of Henry VIII, they couldn't make the magic happen again with 1936's Rembrandt. Laughton's performance is solid throughout, and Korda's recreation of Rembrandt... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Charles Laughton - (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Gertrude Lawrence - (Geertke Dirx)
Elsa Lanchester - (Hendrickje Stoffels)
John Bryning - (Titus van Rijn)
Edward Chapman - (Fabrizius)
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Review:
Looking uncannily like the real artist, Charles Laughton makes Rembrandt a memorable motion picture experience. Not that the film is without other assets. The script is literate (a bit too much so in places, bogging down in dialogue when it needs to soar a bit more), although it follows the grand cinema tradition of taking dramatic license wi... Continue >>
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