Enchantment (1948)
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68% of users liked it
(675 ratings)
Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99 Wiltshire Place, the birth place of a noted general who has not been back since he was a young man and had a terrible wrenching fight with his sister over his love for their… More Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99 Wiltshire Place, the birth place of a noted general who has not been back since he was a young man and had a terrible wrenching fight with his sister over his love for their adopted sister. Just before he stormed out, he vowed that he would never return until the troublesome sibling, who was always jealous of the beautiful orphan girl, died. Many years pass and the general now sits there alone with his old butler musing about his lost love. His American granddaughter, an ambulance driver for the war effort, shows up distraught. It seems she has fallen in love with the Canadian nephew of the general's old flame and is undecided whether she marry him right away or wait until after the war. He then tells her his tragic tale in hopes that she will change her mind. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Irving Reis
- Written By
- Rumer Godden, John Patrick
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 25, 1948 Wide
Critic Reviews
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...the extremely deliberate pace quickly becomes overwhelming...
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Cast
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David Niven
as Gen. Sir Roland Dane
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Teresa Wright
as Lark Ingoldsby
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Evelyn Keyes
as Grizel Dane
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Farley Granger
as Pilot Pax Masterson
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Jayne Meadows
as Selina Dane
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Leo G Carroll
as Proutie
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Phillip Friend
as Pelham Dane
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Shepperd Strudwick
as Marchese del Laudi
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Henry Stephenson
as Gen. Fitzgerald
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Colin Keith-Johnston
as The Eye
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Gerald Perreau-Saissine
as Rollo as a Child
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Sherlee Collier
as Selina as a Child
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Marjorie Rhodes
as Mrs. Sampson
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Edmund Breon
as Uncle Bunny
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Gerald Oliver Smith
as Willoughby
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Melville Cooper
as Jeweler
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Dennis McCarthy
as Lance Corporal
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Matthew Boulton
as Air Raid Warden
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Robin Hughes
as Corporal
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William Johnstone
as Narrator
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Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton
as RAF officer
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Gigi Perreau
as Lark as a Child
- Peter Miles
- Philip Friend
- Warwick Gregson
