The Wedding Night (1935)

Directed by

King Vidor

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A novelist struggling with money moves back to his country house in Connecticut to find inspiration. He gets involved with a young Polish woman and her family, leading to romance and tragedy.

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What happens

The Wedding Night is a 1935 American romantic tragedy film directed by King Vidor and starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten. Written by Edith Fitzgerald and based on a story by Edwin H. Knopf, the film is about a financially strapped novelist who returns to his country home in Connecticut looking for inspiration for his next novel and becomes involved with a beautiful young Polish woman and her family. The film was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and filmed at Samuel Goldwyn Studios from early November to early December 1934. It was released in the United States on March 8, 1935. The film received generally positive reviews, with The New York Times calling it "both pictorially and dramatically striking". Despite the reviews, the film did poorly at the box office, earning only $174,081. King Vidor won the Volpi Cup for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival in 1935. The Wedding Night was released in DVD format by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on May 22, 2007. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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