Forever Amber

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Forever Amber

1947

2h 20m

Drama

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Left at a farmer's doorstep during the English Civil War, Amber St. Clair (Linda Darnell) -- a girl of noble birth -- grows up in a small village under the puritanical eye of her guardian. Wanting more out of life, she flees her home for London, following a traveling soldier, Bruce Carlton (Cornel Wilde). Once in the city, Amber and Bruce form a relationship, but Bruce soon leaves for the high seas. Alone and pregnant, Amber decides to continue her upward social climb.

James Agee

TIME Magazine

03/02/2018

Linda Darnell ... makes a handsome but unexciting Amber. Cornel Wilde, as Amber's steady, Lord Bruce Carlton, uses both of his facial expressions frequently.

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Variety Staff

Variety

10/23/2007

Here is a $4 million (and claimed to be more) picture that looks its cost.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

01/28/2006

2/5

The film runs for two hours and twenty minutes, which is just about an hour too long considering its repetitious nature and the fact that it is pretty trashy stuff.

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Nell Dodson Russell

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

01/15/2022

Forever Amber has the advantage of an eye-pleasing technicolor job to gloss over the fact that it's just two-and-one-half hours of yawn bait.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

09/18/2021

3/4

Hollywood had to considerably tone down the cinematic adaptation, although it also met with its fair share of puritanical naysaying.

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Nathanael Hood

The Retro Set

06/03/2019

6/10

However, the adaptation's studio-mandated propriety keeps it from truly transcending the tired strains of soap opera melodrama.

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@TMProofreader 02/01/2019

The best movie score ever composed!

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06/21/2015

a good movie to watch .

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03/22/2014

"It's a lush Fox production, photographed in Technicolor by the great Leon Shamroy and directed by a wholly uninterested Otto Preminger."

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08/28/2008

A very well done period piece starring the beautiful Linda Darnell.

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08/06/2008

Could watch all the way through...so sad...the book was better I think...they need to remake it!

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05/13/2008

I'm quite fond of this underappreciated period romance. Linda Darnell really gets a chance to show off her impressive acting chops here, and shows she was quite the talented actress. George Sanders also gives and excellent performance, one of his best.

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Synopsis

Left at a farmer's doorstep during the English Civil War, Amber St. Clair (Linda Darnell) -- a girl of noble birth -- grows up in a small village under the puritanical eye of her guardian. Wanting more out of life, she flees her home for London, following a traveling soldier, Bruce Carlton (Cornel Wilde). Once in the city, Amber and Bruce form a relationship, but Bruce soon leaves for the high seas. Alone and pregnant, Amber decides to continue her upward social climb.

Director: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Producer: William Perlberg
Screenwriter: Philip Dunne, Ring Lardner Jr., Kathleen Winsor, Jerome Cady
Distributor: 20th Century Fox, Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 22, 1947, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Apr 29, 2014
Runtime: 2h 20m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)