That Dangerous Age

1949 film by Gregory Ratoff

5 September 1949 (1949-09-05)

Running time

98 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBox office£176,577 (UK) ^[1]

That Dangerous Age is a 1949 British romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey and Peggy Cummins.^[2] It was adapted from the play Autumn by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surguchev. The film was released under the alternative title of If This Be Sin in the United States.^[3] It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location in London and Capri. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew.

Plot

Sir Brian Brooke, a famous attorney, collapses while acting as defense counsel in a high-profile murder trial. Doctor Thorvald informs his (second) wife Cathy that Brian needs to rest for six months or he will die; Brian is also temporarily blind. They and Brian's daughter Monica relax in Italy.

They receive an anonymous letter accusing Cathy of carrying on an affair with Brian's junior partner, Michael Barcleigh. Brian's lawyer instincts makes him believe it, until Cathy reveals that Michael has confided to her that he is in love with Monica. Brian is apologetic, and delighted by the news. However, Cathy has lied, and the letter is correct.

Cast

Myrna Loy as Lady Cathy Brooke
Peggy Cummins as Monica Brooke
Richard Greene as Michael Barcleigh
Roger Livesey as Sir Brian Brooke
Elizabeth Allan as Lady Sybil
Gerard Heinz as Doctor Thorvald
Jean Cadell as Nannie
G. H. Mulcaster as Simmons
Margaret Withers as May Drummond
Ronald Adam as Prosecutor
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Mr Potts
Henry Caine as Mr Nyburg
Patrick Waddington as Rosley
Edith Sharpe as Angela Caine
George Curzon as Selby
Robert Atkins as George Drummond
Phyllis Stanley as Jane
Daphne Arthur as Margot
Martin Case as John
Barry Jones as Arnold Cane
Louise Lord as Ellen
Nicholas Bruce as Charles
William Mervyn as Nicky
André Morell as Doctor McCatcheon

Comic book adaption

Eastern Color Movie Love #2 (April 1950)^[4]^[5]

References

^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p489
^ BFI.org
^ IMDB If This Be Sin
^ "Movie Love #2". Grand Comics Database.
^ Movie Love #2 at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

That Dangerous Age at IMDb
Review of film at Variety

Films directed by Gregory Ratoff

Sins of Man (1936)
Lancer Spy (1937)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Hotel for Women (1939)
Intermezzo (1939)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
Barricade (1939)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
The Men in Her Life (1941)
Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
Footlight Serenade (1942)
Something to Shout About (1943)
The Heat's On (1943)
Song of Russia (1944)
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
Paris Underground (1945)
Do You Love Me (1946)
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
Moss Rose (1947)
That Dangerous Age (1949)
Black Magic (1949)
My Daughter Joy (1950)
Taxi (1953)
Abdulla the Great (1955)
Oscar Wilde (1960)

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