Overproduced - the settings are stuffed with props and everyone's wearing too many clothes. I haven't read the novel but you cans see as here there is a basic love triangle that could work - but it doesn't. Errol Flynn is very good as Soames, Greer Garson is alright as Irene, Robert Young is awful as Philip and Walter Pidgeon not very good as Jolyon. Janet Leigh is too American. Bad support players.
The film needed better handling. Compton Bennett the director doesn't rise to the occasion. There's no feel, no atmosphere. No sense of family.
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