The Bad Lord Byron
1949 | 85m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | David MacDonald |
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| Writer: | Peter Quennell, Terence Young, Laurence Kitchin, Paul Holt, Anthony Thorne |
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| Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 18, 1949 |
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| Director: | David MacDonald |
| Writer: | Peter Quennell, Terence Young, Laurence Kitchin, Paul Holt, Anthony Thorne |
| Genres: | Drama |
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| Production Companies | Sydney Box Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 07, 2024 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Dennis Price | Lord Byron |
| Mai Zetterling | Teresa Guiccioli |
| Joan Greenwood | Lady Caroline Lamb |
| Linden Travers | Augusta Leigh |
| Sonia Holm | Annabella Milbanke |
| Raymond Lovell | John Hobhouse |
| Leslie Dwyer | Fletcher |
| Denis O'Dea | Prosecuting Counsel |
| Irene Browne | Lady Melbourne |
| Virgílio Teixeira | Pietro Gamba |
| Ernest Thesiger | Count Guiccioli |
| Gerard Heinz | Austrian Officer |
| Cyril Chamberlain | Defending Counsel |
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | Mr. Hopton |
| Henry Oscar | Count Gamba |
| Richard Molinas | Gondolier |
| Robert Harris | Dallas |
| Ronald Adam | Judge |
| Archie Duncan | John Murray |
| Barry Jones | Colonel Stonhope |
| Natalie Moya | Lady Milbanke |
| John Stone | Lord Clark |
| Nora Swinburne | Lady Jersey |
| John Salew | Samuel Rogers |
| Lena Lanare | La Fornarina |
| Betty Lynne | Signora Segati |
| Bernard Rebel | Doctor Bruno |
| Liam Gaffney | Tom Moore |
| Gilbert Davis | Tita |
| Vincent Holman | Bailiff |
| Guy Le Feuvre | Doctor |
| Aubrey Mallalieu | 1st Old club member |
| Desmond Roberts | 2nd Old club member |
| Zena Marshall | An Italian Woman |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| David MacDonald | Director |
| Stephen Dade | Director of Photography |
| Don Weeks | Assistant Director |
| B. C. Sewell | Sound Director |
| Elizabeth Haffenden | Costume Design |
| Peter Quennell | Writer |
| Cedric Thorpe Davie | Music |
| George Provis | Supervising Art Director |
| Claude Hitchcock | Boom Operator |
| Philippo Guidobaldi | Special Effects |
| James Needs | Editor |
| Anthony Nelson Keys | Production Manager |
| Albert Whitlock | Special Effects |
| David Harcourt | Camera Operator |
| Arthur Alcott | Production Controller |
| Terence Young | Writer |
| W.T. Partleton | Makeup Artist |
| Laurence Kitchin | Writer |
| Laurie Turner | Still Photographer |
| Paul Holt | Writer |
| Anthony Thorne | Writer |
| Maurice Carter | Art Direction |
| Bill Salter | Sound Recordist |
| Les Hammond | Sound Recordist |
| Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Aubrey Baring | Producer |
| Alfred Roome | Associate Producer |
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Popularity History
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Dennis Price doesn't actually look like he is having to do much acting as he portrays the bravely errant soldier-cum-poet in this drama. He is bedridden, seriously ill, and wondering how he might be looked upon by St. Peter as his day of reckoning looms. The film now sets out to show us a little of ... his reminiscences - his lives and loves, most notably with an on-form Mai Zetterling ("Teresa"), Sonia Holm as his long-suffering wife Annabella and, of course, Lady Caroline Lamb (Joan Greenwood). It takes the form of a trial - with people giving testament to his behaviour and character under the gaze of the sagely, if frequently quite bemused judge (Ronald Adam). Price plays well here, and his scenes with Greenwood remained me of their scenes together in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (also made in 1949). Sadly, though it starts off quite entertainingly, it becomes very wordy and slow quite quickly and the last forty minutes or so dragged a bit, I thought. I like Price, he has something about him, but this all wears a bit too thin. Maybe his libertine, naughty, side fell foul of the censors, but what we have here is ultimately rather plain. Adequate, nothing more.