The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

Laughton does his Captain Bligh routine…didactic father keeps his children under lock and key and makes everyone generally miserable. Shearer is fine as the weak poetess, but March is simply adorable as the poet who comes a'courting, despite the difficulties posed by Elizabeth's health and her father's insanity. Stirred an interest in me for the "real story."

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