The Great Ealing Film Challenge 71: Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Dr Keith M. Johnston
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Posted 23.07.2012
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UK Entertainment
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Revisiting this film three or four years after I first viewed it (for research on Ealing Studios' colour films) I still think it is unjustly dismissed within many studies of Ealing's productions: Charles Barr, for example, described it as 'an expensive, ponderous and loss-making period spectacle.'
