Port of Seven Seas (1938)

Directed by

James Whale

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small French seaport, a rough but good-hearted fisherman and his young wife take in a mysterious orphan boy. The story follows the couple and their tight-knit community through everyday joys and sorrows.

earthysentimentalleisurelysun-drenchedwarm-heartedobservationaltalkynostalgic

What happens

Port of Seven Seas is a 1938 American drama film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Frank Morgan and Maureen O'Sullivan. The movie was written by Preston Sturges based on the plays of Marcel Pagnol and the films based on them, and was directed by James Whale, the director of Frankenstein (1931) and The Invisible Man (1933). The cinematography is by Karl Freund, who filmed Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and I Love Lucy (1951-1957). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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