Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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J.H. Roberts
- Mr. Glegg
- (as F.H. Roberts)
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- TriviaThis film received its initial television broadcast in USA 3 February 1940 on New York City's pioneer, still experimental, television station W2XBS. As WWII drew to a close, television viewers got another look at it Monday 4 June 1945 on KNBH (Channel 4); it first aired in in Boston Saturday 2 October 1948 on WBZ (Channel 4) and in Washington DC Saturday 16 October 1948 on WNBW (Channel 4); it finally arrived in Los Angeles airwaves Sunday 30 October 1949 on KNBH (Channel 4) and in Chicago Sunday 26 March 1950 on WGN (Channel 9).
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"A Feud That's None Of Our Making"
This 1937 adaption of George Elliot's The Mill On The Floss gave film audiences James Mason's first starring role as Tom Tulliver, son of Sam Livesey who has a running feud over the water rights over a mill that Livesey owns on the river Floss. This feud over the water rights where it is determined that Felix Aylmer owns permeates the lives of the families involved.
Mason is an earnest and devoted son to Livesey and something of a lout. He ratchets up the feud several notches until that's just about all he lives for. But that's not how Mason's sister Geraldine Fitzgerald feels nor is it how Aylmer's son Frank Lawton feels. They carry on a Romeo and Juliet like romance despite the feelings of their respective families. And since you know where Elliot got her inspiration from, you also can probably deduce things end rather badly.
This film version could probably use a restoration since it is a key film in the career of James Mason. The streamed version I saw on Amazon looks like it hasn't stood the test of time. The Napoleonic and post Napoleonic era in the United Kingdom is well captured on the film, but the pace is slow and sluggish. The film should also be restored because of the climatic sequence of the flood which destroys some lives and the mill that was the cause of the great feud. It was probably a well staged disaster that I would have liked a better view of, it was pretty dark on my computer.
The Mill On The Floss is sluggish and considerably condensed from the Elliott novel, but still earnestly done by its cast.
Mason is an earnest and devoted son to Livesey and something of a lout. He ratchets up the feud several notches until that's just about all he lives for. But that's not how Mason's sister Geraldine Fitzgerald feels nor is it how Aylmer's son Frank Lawton feels. They carry on a Romeo and Juliet like romance despite the feelings of their respective families. And since you know where Elliot got her inspiration from, you also can probably deduce things end rather badly.
This film version could probably use a restoration since it is a key film in the career of James Mason. The streamed version I saw on Amazon looks like it hasn't stood the test of time. The Napoleonic and post Napoleonic era in the United Kingdom is well captured on the film, but the pace is slow and sluggish. The film should also be restored because of the climatic sequence of the flood which destroys some lives and the mill that was the cause of the great feud. It was probably a well staged disaster that I would have liked a better view of, it was pretty dark on my computer.
The Mill On The Floss is sluggish and considerably condensed from the Elliott novel, but still earnestly done by its cast.
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- Also known as
- Vodenica na Flosi
- Filming locations
- Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(Studio, uncredited)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Mill on the Floss (1936) officially released in Canada in English?
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