FIRE OVER ENGLAND (1937)

The first film with Laurence Olivier.
The first British film to premiere in Los Angeles.

92 minutes (black and white)

Directed: William K. Howard

Produced: Erich Pommer

Screenplay: Clemence Dane and Sergei Nolbandov, from the novel by A.E.W. Mason

Opened: February 25, 1937 in London. March 4, 1937 in New York

Starring: Vivien Leigh (Cynthia), Flora Robson (Queen Elizabeth I), Raymond Massey (Philip of Spain), Laurence Olivier (Michael Ingolby), Leslie Banks (Leicester), Morton Selten (Burleigh), Tamara Desni (Elena)

Comments

Laurence Olivier: Fire Over England was a pretty good sort of adventure story by A. E. W. Mason.

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