Three Wicked Melodramas From Gainsborough Pictures (Criterion Collection) On DVD

Actor:          James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert
Director:      Leslie Arliss, Arthur Crabtree
Genre:          Drama
Year:            N/A
Studio:         Criterion Collection
Length:        330
Released:   October 9, 2012
Rating:        Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:       DVD
Misc:           Black & White
Language:  English
Subtitles  :  English

DESCRIPTION:

During the 1940s, realism reigned in British cinema—but not at Gainsborough Pictures. The studio, which had been around since the ’20s, found new success with a series of pleasurably preposterous costume melodramas. Audiences ate up these overheated films, which featured a stable of charismatic stars, including James Mason (Lolita), Margaret Lockwood (The Lady Vanishes), Stewart Granger (King Solomon’s Mines), and Phyllis Calvert (Indiscreet). Though its films were immensely profitable in wartime and immediately after, Gainsborough did not outlive the decade. This set brings together a trio of Gainsborough’s most popular films—florid, visceral tales of secret identities, multiple personalities, and romantic betrayals.