The Four Poster (1952 film)

The Four Poster
Theatrical release poster
Directed byIrving Reis
Screenplay by
Based on
The Fourposter
by Jan de Hartog
Produced byStanley Kramer
Starring
CinematographyHal Mohr
Edited byHenry Batista
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Production
company
The Stanley Kramer Company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 15, 1952 (1952-10-15) (New York)[1]
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150,000[2]: 330 

The Four Poster is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and starring real-life married couple Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer.[1]

The plot follows the married life of John and Abby Edwards from their honeymoon through their final years.[1]

Cast

Production

The screenplay is an adaptation of Jan de Hartog's 1951 play The Fourposter. Writer Allan Scott saw the play in London and recommended the story to producer Stanley Kramer, who had a contract with Columbia Pictures. Scott purchased the rights for $15,000 and persuaded Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer to star in the film.[2]: 330–331 

The Four Poster features animated sequences created by United Productions of America (UPA) and directed by John Hubley, his final project before leaving UPA and founding his independent studio, Storyboard, Inc.[3]

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther called the film "piously sentimental" and described it as "a series of glimpses of a marriage, from wedding night to final death, that is gay and amusing in some phases, solemn and poignant in other ones, and is eventually brought to a fade-out in a forced glow of melancholy sweetness and smiling gloom."[1]

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Crowther, Bosley (October 16, 1952). "The Screen in Review". The New York Times. p. 37.
  2. 1 2 McGilligan, Patrick (1986). Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age. University of California Press.
  3. ↑ Robinson, David (Winter 1961–1962). "In the Picture; Evolution of a Cartoonist". Sight & Sound. 31 (1): 17.

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael and Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.


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