The Phantom Gondola
1936 film
- Maurice Dekobra (novel)
- Gino Valori
- Marcelle Chantal
- Henri Rollan
- Paul Bernard
- Roger Karl
- Anchise Brizzi
- Léonce-Henri Burel
- Cesare A. Bixio
- Ezio Carabella
- Armando Fragna
Production
companies
companies
- Hélianthe-Film
- Tiberia Film
Release date
- March 1936 (1936-03)
Running time
- France
- Italy
The Phantom Gondola (Italian: La gondola delle chimere) is a 1936 French-Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Marcelle Chantal, Henri Rollan and Paul Bernard.[1] The film was a co-production between the two countries shot at the Cines Studios in Rome and based on a 1926 novel by Maurice Dekobra.
Synopsis
A British aristocrat falls in love with a Venetian Count, without realising that he is a spy against the Turks. When she discovers that he has been captured by the notorious Sélim Pacha she does everything she can to save him.
Cast
- Marcelle Chantal as Lady Diana Wyndham
- Henri Rollan as Le comte Angelo Ruzzi / Il conte Angelo Ruzzi
- Paul Bernard as Jimmy
- Roger Karl as Sélim Pacha / Selim Pascia
- Betty Beckers as Belkis
- Serge Nadaud as Sir Reginald Duckling
- Edmond Van Daële as Le docteur Erich Krauss / Il dottor Erick Krauss
- Alexandre Mihalesco as Ibrahim
- Lucie Gueneau as Madame Sacchardi / Signora Saccardi
- Doris Duranti as Nelly
- Jean Del Val as Monsieur de Montignac
- Paul Clerget as Le diplomate / Il diplomato
- Hugues de Bagratide as Le prince Ahmed / Il principe Achmed
- Jean Clarens as Le capitaine / Il capitano
- Emilienne Davray as La téléphoniste
- Nino Eller
- Mario Falaschi
- Giovanni Ferrari
- Renato Gabrielli
- Carlo Maggio
- Lia Rosa
- Vanna Vanni
- Rosina Adrario
Reception
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, characterizing it as "a cheap, trivial and pretentious story by a popular writer of rather low reputation." While acknowledging that "it is one of the only two films this last year I have found myself unable to endure till the end," and that he had not therefore completed the entire film, Greene explained his action "for never has a melodrama proceeded so slowly, with such a saga-like tread".[2]
See also
- Change of Heart (1928), with Juliette Compton as Lady Winham
- Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1928), with Claude France as Lady Diana Wynham
- Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1955), with Gisèle Pascal as Lady Diana Wyndham
References
- ^ Nowell-Smith p.60
- ^ Greene, Graham (10 July 1936). "One Rainy Afternoon/Janosik/The Phantom Gondola". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 87. ISBN 0192812866.)
Bibliography
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
External links
- The Phantom Gondola at IMDb
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The films of Augusto Genina
- Goodbye Youth (1918)
- The Prince of the Impossible (1918)
- The Beautiful Wife (1924)
- The Hearth Turned Off (1925)
- The Last Lord (1926)
- Goodbye Youth (1927)
- The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)
- The Story of a Little Parisian (1928)
- Scampolo (1928)
- Love's Masquerade (1928)
- Latin Quarter (1929)
- Miss Europe (1930)
- The Darling of Paris (1931)
- The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
- The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932)
- We Are Not Children (1934)
- Forget Me Not (1935)
- The White Squadron (1936)
- Flowers from Nice (1936)
- The Phantom Gondola (1936)
- The Kiss of Fire (1937)
- Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering (1937)
- Castles in the Air (1939)
- The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
- Bengasi (1942)
- Heaven over the Marshes (1949)
- Devotion (1950)
- Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
- Maddalena (1954)
- Frou-Frou (1955)
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