The Deep Blue Sea
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
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"To all extents and purposes this film adaptation of Rattigan's arguably most famous play is lost. It was also written by Rattigan himself which gives it extra value as it broadens out the drama and uses flashbacks which could not be used on the stage, showing the growing relationship between the two lovers played by Vivien Leigh ( an extraordinary performance ) and Kenneth More as her weak willed lover. Emlyn Williams plays her unimaginative husband and he too stands out as being just right for the role. In fact the whole cast is excellent and Moira Lister is almost a match for Vivien Lei..."
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Kenneth More says in his autobiography, "More or Less", that he was against having Vivien Leigh as his co star in the film, regarding her as altogether too glamorous. He felt that the play's concentration on the squalor of the surroundings in which the Leigh character finds herself had been greatly diminished for the film, which had color, CinemaScope and locations in Switzerland and made no reference to the deprivations of the war or the post-war austerity era in Britain. Leigh was aware of his opposition, which he expressed openly at a rehearsal, and he says that did not help the chemistry between the two of them. (More would have preferred Peggy Ashcroft with whom he had appeared in the original play - she was less glamorous and older). The 2011 remake resolutely de-glamorizes everything.
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A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.