Madonna of the Seven Moons
Madonna of the Seven Moons is a 1945 British drama film starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. Directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures, the film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee. It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas of the mid-1940s popular with WW2-era female audiences.
Plot
A teenage rape of a convent student holds the key to her disappearance as a respectable married woman. Maddalena was left with a dual personality, which leads her to forsake her husband and daughter and flee her Florentine home in the house of the Seven Moons as the mistress of a gypsy jewel thief.
More details
author | Margery Lawrence Roland Pertwee |
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director | Arthur Crabtree Margery Lawrence Roland Pertwee |
editor | Lito Carruthers |
genre | drama |
keywords | dual personality florence florentine jewel thief married woman teenage rape |
musicBy | Hans May |
productionCompany | Gainsborough Pictures |
publisher | Eagle-Lion Distributors |
theme | melodrama |