If Winter Comes (1947)

Directed by

Victor Saville

Genre

drama film, war film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An English textbook writer in a quiet village takes in a pregnant girl who has no one else to turn to. The community reacts with judgment and gossip, putting his reputation and marriage at risk.

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What happens

If Winter Comes is a 1947 American drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr and Angela Lansbury. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1921 novel by A.S.M. Hutchinson. The film tells the story of an English textbook writer who takes in a pregnant girl. The novel had previously been made into the 1923 silent film If Winter Comes. The title of the film was taken from the last line of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem "Ode to the West Wind": "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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