Bitter Sweet
1933 | 93m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Herbert Wilcox |
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| Writer: | Noël Coward |
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| The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love. As a young girl Sarah falls in love with Carl, a musician, and runs off with him to Vienna. They are happily wed and Carl earns a living conducting a small orchestra. Enter a certain Captain who sets his eye on Sarah and proceeds to shower her with his attentions, much to her dismay. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 21, 1933 |
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| Director: | Herbert Wilcox |
| Writer: | Noël Coward |
| Genres: | Drama, Music, Romance |
| Keywords | conductor, vienna, austria |
| Production Companies | Herbert Wilcox Productions, British & Dominions Film Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 30, 2026 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Anna Neagle | Sari Linden |
| Fernand Gravey | Carl Linden |
| Miles Mander | Captain Auguste Lutte |
| Clifford Heatherley | Herr Schlick |
| Esme Percy | Hugh Devon |
| Ivy St. Helier | Manon la Crevette |
| Pat Paterson | Dolly |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Herbert Wilcox | Director |
| Monckton Hoffe | Additional Dialogue |
| Michael Hankinson | Editor |
| Lawrence P. Williams | Art Direction |
| Roy Robertson | Music Director |
| C. C. Stevens | Sound Recordist |
| Noël Coward | Novel |
| Freddie Young | Director of Photography |
| Doris Zinkeisen | Costume Design |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Herbert Wilcox | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Noël Coward and Herbert Wilcox have combined here to create an engaging little musical romance with a couple of memorable songs and a gently bubbling screenplay. Told by way of a retrospective, Anna Neagle is "Sarah" who marries the penniless musician "Carl" (Fernand Gravey) and heads to Venice wher ... e they eke out a meagre living until he is offered a job conducting a small orchestra and she sings along. Her talents manage to attract the unwanted attentions of "Capt. Lutte" (Miles Mander) and very shortly afterwards, things take a tragic turn. It's got something of the silent movie about it - there are extended scenes with no dialogue, and both Neagle and Mander offer us a degree of gesturing that wouldn't have looked out of place ten years earlier. At times this does hold the pace back but we also have Ivy St. Helier's sultry "Manon la Crevette" who delivers "If Love Were All" and Neagle is quite robust singing "I'll See You Again". It was remade with more money and colour, but I'm not sure it needed either. This is quite an entertaining 90 minutes.