Fresh
As a film it's slow. Very. The first hour is wandering, planting-the-plot stuff that has some difficulty cementing the interest, but in the final stretch it grips and holds.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
When poets love, Heaven and Earth fall back to watch!
1934 · 1h 49m · PASSED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Sidney Franklin
Overview
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Director and cast
- Sidney Franklin Director
- Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett
- Fredric March as Robert Browning
- Charles Laughton as Edward Moulton-Barrett
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Henrietta Barrett
- Katharine Alexander as Arabel Barrett
- Ralph Forbes as Captain Surtees Cook
- Ian Wolfe as Harry Bevan
- Marion Clayton Anderson as Bella Hedley
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Sidney Franklin has filmed a drama of beauty, dignity and nobility.
Andre Sennwald, New York Times
Rotten
Slow, deliberate, dull.
Time Out
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