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Madonna of the Seven Moons is a 1945 British drama film starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. Directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures, the film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee.
Madonna of the Seven Moons: Directed by Arthur Crabtree. With Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville. A respectable, convent-raised woman is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Arthur Crabtree
- 1946-01-28
A lurid tale of sex and psychosis, Madonna of the Seven Moons, directed by Arthur Crabtree, is among the wildest of the Gainsborough melodramas. Set in Italy, it begins as a comparatively sedate tale about a respectable, convent-raised woman (Phyllis Calvert) who is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager.
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A Gainsborough melodrama about a woman with a split personality, haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager. She leads a double life as a respectable wife and a Gypsy woman, triggered by a pair of earrings with seven moons.
After being raped by a gypsy, Maddalena (Phyllis Calvert) develops a split personality. Years pass and she marries and starts a family in Rome. But, unbeknownst to her loving daughter Angela ...
- (2)
- Arthur Crabtree
- Drama
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
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A classic in gothic-romantic excess, Madonna of Seven Moons was one of the most successful British films of its genre. Though she doesn't know it at first, young convent-bred Rosalinda (Phyllis Calvert) has been born under a curse: before her life comes to a close, she will be wife, mother and mistress all in one.
