Merchant of Love

1935 French film
  • Edmond T. Gréville
  • Henri Jeanson
Produced byGus OstwaltStarringCinematographyGosta KottulaEdited byJean FeyteMusic byJacques Belasco
Production
company
H.O. Films
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 21 June 1935 (1935-06-21)
Running time
80 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

Merchant of Love (French: Marchand d'amour) is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Jean Galland, Rosine Deréan and Françoise Rosay.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild.

Cast

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly positive review, characterizing it as "a melodramatic and rather silly tale [...] directed with immense panache and a secret sense of amusement".[2]

References

  1. ^ Mazdon & Wheatley p.24
  2. ^ Greene, Graham (18 September 1936). "The Great Ziegfeld/It's Love Again/Marchand d'Amour/East Meets West". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 101. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography

  • Lucy Mazdon & Catherine Wheatley. Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations. Berghahn Books, 2010.

External links

  • Merchant of Love at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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