- 71%
- 96%
- 72%
- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- March 16, 1949 (75 years ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Production companies
- Associated British Picture Corporation · Dimitri De Grunwald Production
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
Adolf WohlbrückCapt. Herman Suvorin
Edith EvansThe Old Countess Ranevskaya
Yvonne MitchellLizavetta Ivanova
Ronald HowardAndrei
Mary JerroldOld Varvarushka
Anthony DawsonFyodor
Miles MallesonTchybukin
Michael MedwinHovaisky
Athene SeylerPrincess Ivashin
Ivor BarnardBookseller
Aubrey MallalieuFedya
Maroussia DimitrevitchGypsy singer
Violette ElvinGypsy dancer
Pauline Tennantyoung Countess Ranevskaya
Jacqueline ClarkeMilliner's Assistant
Josef RamartCountess's Lover
Valentine DyallSt. Germain's Messenger
Gordon BeggGeneral Volcholnikov
Gibb McLaughlinBird Seller
Drusilla WillsCountess's Old Servant
George WoodbridgeVassili
Pauline JamesonAnyutka
Hay PetrieHerman's Servant
Brown DerbyThe Countess's Footman
Geoffrey DunnHair Dresser
The Queen of Spades (1949) is an underseen treasure. Rating: * * * *
Pushkin’s marvellously histrionic tale of cupidity and terrible vengeance gets a suitably wild-eyed treatment in Thorold Dickinson’s 1949 film. In Tsarist Russi
Thorold Dickinson’s 1949 Pushkin adaptation is a glorious melodrama about an ambitious Russian military officer and a countess who sold her soul to the devil in exchange for the secrets of a card game
The film returns at a time of the year when ghost stories are particularly cherished
Ealing Studios’s opulent adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s novella is a cult classic in search of an audience.
Thorold Dickinson (91 mins), starring Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard
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