fiction.wikisort.org - MovieThe Loves of Robert Burns is a 1930 British historical musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Joseph Hislop, Dorothy Seacombe and Eve Gray.[1] It depicts the life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
1930 film
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The Loves of Robert Burns |
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Directed by | Herbert Wilcox |
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Based on | a story by Reginald Berkeley & Herbert Wilcox |
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Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
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Cinematography | - David Kesson
- Freddie Young
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Edited by | Duncan Mansfield |
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Music by | Leslie Heward (music arranger / musical director) |
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Production company | British & Dominions Film Corporation |
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Distributed by | - Ideal (UK) (theatrical) (as Ideal Films Ltd.)
- Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK)
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Release dates |
- 3 March 1930 (1930-03-03) (London, UK)
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Running time | 96 minutes |
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Country | United Kingdom |
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Language | English |
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Cast
Production
The film was the first joint production between Herbert Wilcox Productions, and His Master's Voice gramophone company. The aim of this was to give Wilcox access to their celebrity recording stars such as Chaliapin, John McCormick, Galli-Curci, Yehudi Menuhin and others. For the lead he cast the Scottish tenor Joseph Hislop.[2][3]
Reception
Wilcox later wrote it was "a good film, I thought, but not commercially successful" which led to the gramophone company ending the relationship with Wilcox. "Had I chosen a less indigenous subject and a greater name star, the story might have been vastly different," wrote Wlcox.[4]
Critical reception
The New York Times wrote, "another film which was manufactured with a particular eye to American consumption has on its showing here fallen far short of standards set by British critics...It was thought that the story of the Scottish poet whose fame has been spread throughout the world by his fervently admiring countrymen would command a certain amount of universal appeal. An undoubted opportunity has been missed in that respect. Joseph Hislop, a well-known and popular tenor, was selected for the rôle of the poet, and he does his part, so far as the rendering of a series of Burns's famous songs is concerned, as well as could be desired. On the other hand, the photographic work is much below the standard and the character of Bobbie is divested of most of those qualities which endeared him to his readers as a man as his verse commended him to them as a poet. "The Loves of Robert Burns," indeed, was so unsatisfactory to the London public that it was withdrawn at the end of one week's trial at a central cinema, although it had been largely advertised in advance. Herbert Wilcox was the producer and apparently he fell between two stools—that of finding a singer who could do justice to Bobbie Burns's "Comin' Through the Rye" and other equally famous ballads, and an actor who could present an adequate picture of Robbie the man" ;[5] and more recently, TV Guide called it a "poorly produced life of the famed writer that is short on fact and long on fancy. Hislop, a noted operatic tenor, is about the best thing the film has going. He gives a fairly good performance and handles the songs well. However the script is a joke. Though the title implies that several
affairs will be dealt with, in reality there are only two. Gray and Seacombe are Hislop's two lovers, both historically inaccurate. The film shows Seacombe being seduced and being made into "an honest woman" by Burns, when in reality they married and had several children. This story gives them no
family at all. The Scottish settings are used nicely, but the actors keep forgetting what country they are in and their accents change from scene to scene. Better to buy an anthology of Burns' work than to deal with the mess here."[6]
References
- Wilcox, Herbert, Twenty Five Thousand Sunsets, 1967
External links
Films by Herbert Wilcox |
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Producer only | |
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Poems |
- "Comin' Thro' the Rye" (1782)
- "John Barleycorn" (1782)
- "Man was made to Mourn" (1784)
- "Address to the Deil" (1785)
- "Epitaph for James Smith" (1785)
- "Halloween" (1785)
- "Handsome Nell" (1774)
- "Holy Willie's Prayer" (1785)
- "To a Mouse" (1785)
- The Kilmarnock volume (1786)
- "To a Louse" (1786)
- "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786)
- "The Cotter's Saturday Night" (1786)
- "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787)
- "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787)
- "The Holy Tulzie" (1784)
- "Auld Lang Syne" (1788)
- "My Heart's in the Highlands" (1789)
- "Tam o' Shanter" (1790)
- "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791)
- "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" (1791)
- "Ye Jacobites by Name" (1791)
- "Sweet Afton" (1791)
- "The Slave's Lament" (1792)
- "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" (1793)
- "Scots Wha Hae" (1793)
- "A Red, Red Rose" (1794)
- "Ca' the yowes" (revised, 1794)
- "A Man's A Man for A' That" (1795)
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Places |
- Alloway
- Brownhill Inn
- Burns Cottage
- Drukken Steps
- Ellisland Farm
- Friars Carse
- The Hermitage, Friars Carse
- Irvine
- Irvine Burns Club
- Lochlea
- Millmannoch
- Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
- Writers' Museum
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Family |
- Jean Armour (wife)
- John Burns (brother)
- Adam Armour (brother-in-law)
- James Armour (Master mason) (father-in-law)
- Agnes Broun (mother)
- Elizabeth Riddell Burns (daughter)
- Robert Burns Junior (son)
- William Burnes (father)
- Gilbert Burns (brother)
- Annabella Burns (sister)
- Isabella Burns (sister)
- Agnes Burns (sister)
- William Burns (brother)
- William Nicol Burns (son)
- Robert Burnes (uncle)
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns (natural daughter)
- Francis Wallace Burns (son)
- James Glencairn Burns (son)
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People |
- Robert Aiken
- Robert Ainslie
- John Anderson
- John Bacon (landlord)
- John Ballantine
- Alison Begbie
- Thomas Blacklock
- Nelly Blair
- Richard Brown
- May Cameron
- Mary Campbell
- Margaret Chalmers
- Jenny Clow
- Alison Cockburn
- Alexander Cunningham (lawyer)
- Lord Glencairn
- Frances Dunlop
- Robert Fergusson
- Alexander Findlater
- Jean Gardner
- Jean Glover
- Robert Graham of Fintry
- Gavin Hamilton
- Helen Hyslop
- Nelly Kilpatrick
- John Lewars
- Jean Lorimer (Chloris)
- James McKie
- John MacKenzie
- Agnes Maclehose
- John McMurdo
- William Maxwell
- John Murdoch
- William Nicol
- Ann Park
- Elizabeth Paton
- John Richmond
- James Smith
- David Sillar
- John Syme
- Alexander Tait
- Robert Tannahill
- Peggy Thompson
- Edward Whigham
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Related |
- The Geddes Burns
- Glenriddell Manuscripts
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh Edition)
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Belfast Edition)
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Dublin Variant)
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (London Edition)
- Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton
- Burns Clubs
- Robert Burns World Federation
- Bust of Robert Burns
- Burns supper
- Memorials
- Robert Burns (Stevenson)
- Robert Burns (Steell)
- Robert Burns's diamond point engravings
- Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
- Robert Burns Humanitarian Award
- The Loves of Robert Burns (1930 film)
- The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren
- The Merry Muses of Caledonia
- A Manual of Religious Belief
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