Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
- Directed by
- Mitchell Leisen
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 50 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Death takes human form for three days to understand why people fear him. He falls in love with a young woman, which changes his view of mortality and life.
melancholicdreamlikeromanticslow-burnhauntingpoignantetherealcontemplative
What happens
Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. It is based on the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (1891–1957), as adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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