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Bookmark this pageThe Man in Grey (1943)
Director: Leslie Arliss
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From Time Out Film Guide
Mason was in fine caddish fettle for this Gainsborough bodice-ripper, a Regency romp (from Lady Eleanor Smith) chronicling the fortunes of old school chums Calvert and Lockwood, the latter eventually to seduce her pal's roguish husband, Mason's glacial Lord Rohan. The strangled vowels and heaving sighs play like the highest Cartland camp, but in its day this was raunchy stuff for the British screen. In fact, the low-cut dresses distressed the Americans so much, they asked for portions of the film to be reshot so they could get it past the censor.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Leslie Arliss
Producer: Edward Black
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Harry Smith, Martita Hunt, Raymond Lovell full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 116 mins
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