Sidney Franklin's first version of the story is stiff and stagy, but it offers good roles for Charles Laughton as the tyrannical and abusive father and Norma Shearer as his invalid poet-daughter.
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02/10/08
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
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Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: London, 1845. A somber drama about the relationship between the poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The Barrett family lives in a beautiful house on Wimpole Street. But beyond the facade... [More]
Starring: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander
Director: Sidney Franklin
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When not even Charles Laughton, playing a deranged, scarily pious, and pretty obviously incestuous domineering father can save a film, you know you have problems.
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