BRITANNIA MEWS

aka The Forbidden Street

DIRECTED BY JEAN NEGULESCO
PRODUCED BY WILLIAM PERLBERG/ DARRYL F. ZANNUCK
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY MALCOLM AROLD
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION

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Information from IMDb

Plot Summary
Adelaide Culver, is a well-to-do London miss who marries badly
and becomes victimized by a creepy old streetwoman (Dame Sybil Thorndike)
Written by ethanedwards

Full Cast
Dana Andrews .... Gilbert Lauderdale/Henry Lambert
Maureen O'Hara .... Adelaide Culver
Sybil Thorndike .... Mrs. Mounsey (as Dame Sybil Thorndike)
Diane Hart .... The Blazer
Anne Butchart .... Alice Hambro
Wilfrid Hyde-White .... Mr. Culver
Fay Compton .... Mrs. Culver
A.E. Matthews .... Mr. Bly
Anthony Tancred .... Treff Culver
Herbert C. Walton .... The Old Un (as Herbert Walton)
Mary Martlew .... Milly Lauderdale
June Allen .... Adelaide Culver, as child
Susanne Gibbs .... Alice, as child
Heather Latham .... Blazer, as child
Peter Hobbes .... Fred Baker
Ernest Hare .... Policeman
Gwynne Whitby .... Miss Bryant (as Gwen Whitby)
Scott Harrold .... Benson
Anthony Lamb .... Treff, as child
Neil North .... Jimmy Hambro

Writing Credits
Margery Sharp (novel)
Ring Lardner Jr.

Cinematography
Georges Périnal

Memorable Quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041382/quotes)

Filming Location
London Film Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Britannia Mews is a 1949 British drama film directed by Jean Negulesco
and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara,
Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A.E. Matthews.
In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist
and struggles to make ends meet.
After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with

As a co-star to Dana Andrews, Maureen is as red bloodied as ever.
As you would expect, quite a few Brits floating
around in this one, Dame Sybil Thorndike , and that
wonderful British actor Wifred Hyde-White.

User Review

Author: marcslope from New York, NY
Keeping Maureen O'Hara on its payroll throughout the 1940s was one of the smartest things Twentieth Century Fox ever did: She was capable and spirited, and so pretty that it wouldn't have mattered if she couldn't act at all. Here she is in a typically feisty role, a well-to-do London miss who marries badly and becomes victimized by a creepy old streetwoman (Dame Sybil Thorndike). As a melodrama in the "Gaslight" vein with bizarre comedy touches, it's fairly silly, but there's much to savor, especially in the details: an atmospheric backlot set (I think was actually filmed on 20th's British soundstage), blackmail, puppetry, cackling hags, some tasty dialogue, and one exceedingly odd moment where Dana Andrews invites his ladylove's little brother to bed.

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Period unfavorable to quality scripts, this film is one of the film side ... Was the time when actors and actresses were under contract for years and could not refuse to turn the roles that studios imposed at risk of being excluded and not find a job even in another studio. The bosses of the studios had the exclusive ...

a short video (http://www.archive-host.com/video.php?id=d20e38ff6126068928761bcc4eb8ef05e928d bb7.mp4)

Good reading!

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