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The Black Tulip (1937)

The Black Tulip poster
Directed by
Alex Bryce
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A man tries to grow a rare black tulip in 17th century Holland. The story follows his rivalry with others who also want to claim the flower.

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What happens

The Black Tulip is a 1937 British, black-and-white historical drama film directed by Alex Bryce and starring Patrick Waddington, Ann Soreen, Campbell Gullan and Bernard Lee. It was written by Cecil Maiden and Hugh Brooke based on the 1850 novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, and was produced by Fox-British Pictures at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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