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The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)

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Film details

Featuring

Googie Withers Jean Kent John McCallum
Director

Charles Frend
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1947
Genre

Melodrama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Drama set on the sheep farms of Kent's Romney marshes at the turn of the century. In 1905 Joanna Godden is left her father's farm. Strong-willed and determined to go her own way, she decides to run the farm herself, but, ignoring the advice of local experts, she makes changes which put her pedigree flock at risk. She also declines to marry her lifelong friend Arthur from the next farm. She sends her younger sister Ellen to boarding school where, to Joanna's chagrin, Ellen becomes a spoilt snob. Joanna falls for the charming Martin, son of the local squire Harry Trevor. But on a visit to the seaside at Dungeness, fate intervenes again in her life, and not for the last time.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Joanna Godden
    
    Googie Withers
  - Ellen Godden
    
    Jean Kent
  - Arthur Alce
    
    John McCallum
  - Martin Trevor
    
    Derek Bond
  - Collard
    
    Chips Rafferty
  - Harry Trevor
    
    Henry Mollison
  - Stuppeny
    
    Edward Rigby
  - Isaac Turk
    
    Frederick Piper
  - Louise
    
    Sonia Holm
  - Grace Wichens
    
    Josephine Stuart
  - Peter Relf
    
    Alec Faversham
  - young Turk
    
    Fred Bateman
  - Huggett
    
    Douglas Jefferies
  - Godfrey
    
    Gilbert Davis
  - Martha
    
    Grace Arnold
  - Miss Luckhurst
    
    Barbara Leake
  - Reverend Brett
    
    Ronald Simpson
  - lighthouse keeper's wife
    
    Ethel Coleridge
  - Huxtable
    
    William Mervyn
  - Miss Vennal
    
    Betty Shale
  - Fuller
    
    Ernie Flisher
  - Hook
    
    Charles Whiteley
  - Wilson
    
    Dive Turk
  - Elphit
    
    Albert Thompson
  - cast member
    
    People of Romney Marsh
Credits
- Direction:
  - Directed by
    
    Charles Frend
  Rights:
  - ©
    
    Ealing Studios Ltd.
  Production:
  - An Ealing Studios production
    
    Ealing Studios
  - Released through
    
    General Film Distributors Ltd
  - Produced by
    
    Michael Balcon
  - Associate Producer
    
    Sidney Cole
  - Unit Manager
    
    Hand, Slim
  - Production Supervisor
    
    Hal Mason
  - Made at
    
    Ealing Studios
  Writing:
  - Screenplay by
    
    H.E. Bates
  - Adaptation by
    
    Angus MacPhail
  - From the novel 'Joanna Godden' by
    
    Sheila Kaye-Smith
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Douglas Slocombe
  - Camera Operator
    
    Jeff Seaholme
  - Second Cameraman
    
    Leslie Rowson
  Special Effects:
  - Special Effects
    
    Richardson, C.
  - Special Effects
    
    Banes, L.
  Editing:
  - Editor
    
    Michael Truman
  Design:
  - Art Director
    
    Duncan Sutherland
  Costumes:
  - Costumes
    
    Mark Luker
  Music:
  - Music Specially Composed by
    
    Vaughan Williams
  - [Music] Played by
    
    The Philharmonia Orchestra
  - [Music] Conducted by
    
    Ernest Irving
  Sound:
  - Chief Recordist
    
    Stephen Dalby
  - Sound Recordist
    
    A.E. Rudolph
  - Sound System
    
    RCA Sound System

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