Brief Ecstasy

{{Short description|1937 British film by Edmond T. Gréville}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Brief Ecstasy | alt = | image = Brief Ecstasy FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = | director = Edmond T. Gréville | producer = Hugh Perceval | writer = Basil Mason | starring = Paul Lukas<br>Hugh Williams<br>Linden Travers<br>Marie Ney | music = Walter Goehr | cinematography = Henry Harris<br>Ronald Neame | editing = Ray Pitt | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1937|08|17}} | runtime = 72 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Brief Ecstasy''''' (also known as '''''Dangerous Secrets''''') is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden Travers and Marie Ney.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Brief Ecstasy |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150145130 |access-date=30 July 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114020125/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/155695 BFI.org]</ref> It was made at Ealing Studios.

==Plot== {{no plot|date=July 2021}}

==Cast== * Paul Lukas a Professor Paul Bernardy * Hugh Williams as Jim Wyndham * Linden Travers as Helen Norwood Bernardy * Marie Ney as Martha Russell * Renee Gadd as Marjorie * Fred Withers as Gardener * Howard Douglas as Coleman * Fewlass Llewellyn as Director of Steel Company * Peter Gawthorne as Chairman of Steel Company * Norman Pierce as Landlord

==Reception== Writing for ''Night and Day'' in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, expressing admiration for producer Perceval's ability to "wring twenty shillings' worth out of every pound" and director Gréville's recognition that for a film whose subject is sexual passion "the story doesn't matter; it's the atmosphere which counts". Greene praised Gréville's "wanton and vivid" depictions of "undifferentiated desire" as well as his French education in "photograph[ing] a woman's body - uncompromisingly", and noted that "the film at its finest [...] generalizes", and "there isn't, thank God, any love in it".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 16 September 1937|title= Action for Slander/Brief Ecstacy|journal= Night and Day}} (reprinted in: {{cite book |editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell |editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|publisher= Oxford University Press|page= 167|isbn=0192812866}})</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0028663}}

Category:1937 films Category:Ealing Studios films Category:British drama films Category:1937 drama films Category:Films set in London Category:Films set in England Category:Films set in India Category:Films directed by Edmond T. Gréville Category:British black-and-white films Category:Films scored by Walter Goehr Category:1937 English-language films Category:1937 British films Category:English-language drama films