Frenchman's Creek (1944)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Genre

drama film, adventure film, romance film, pirate film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aristocratic English woman in the 17th century falls in love with a French pirate. They have an adventure together along the Cornish coast.

romanticadventurousswashbucklingmelodramaticlight-heartedperiodsoaring

What happens

Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 adventure film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1941 novel of the same name, about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce. Filmed in Technicolor, it was directed by Mitchell Leisen. The musical score was by Victor Young, who incorporated the main theme of French composer Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune as the love theme for the film. The film is a mostly faithful adaptation of the novel, taking place during the reign of Charles II in the mid-17th century, mostly in the Cornish region of England. The film was released as an on demand DVD August 28, 2014 (Amazon); and has been shown on American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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