Frenchman’s Creek
Frenchman’s Creek
Los Angeles Restoration Premiere
Los Angeles Restoration Premiere
Joan Fontaine stuns as the noblewoman Dona St. Columb who leaves her husband and children for a charming French pirate (Mexican star Arturo de Córdova) and his band of misfits. But their plundering adventures along the coast of Cornwall are challenged by the meddling of Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone). Mitchell Leisen helms this adaptation of a novel by Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca) rendered in glorious three-strip Technicolor by George Barnes (The War of the Worlds).
Note by Academy Museum Senior Director, Film Programs Bernardo Rondeau.
DIRECTED BY: Mitchell Leisen. WRITTEN BY: Talbot Jennings. WITH: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone. 1944. 110 min. USA. Color. English. DCP. 4K restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation. 35mm 3-Strip Nitrate Original Cut Picture Negative provided by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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