Fresh
Here is a $4 million (and claimed to be more) picture that looks its cost.
Variety Staff, Variety
Forever Amber
1947 · 2h 18m · Approved
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Otto Preminger
Overview
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
Director and cast
- Otto Preminger Director
- Linda Darnell as Amber St. Clair
- Cornel Wilde as Bruce Carlton
- Richard Greene as Lord Harry Almsbury
- George Sanders as King Charles II
- Glenn Langan as Capt. Rex Morgan
- Richard Haydn as Earl of Radcliffe
- Jessica Tandy as Nan Britton
- Anne Revere as Mother Red Cap
- John Russell as Black Jack Mallard
- Jane Ball as Corinne Carlton
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
18%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
Preminger's direction lacks the sophisticated lightness of touch that Mitchell Leisen brought to the in some ways similar Kitty.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
It's a lush Fox production, photographed in Technicolor by the great Leon Shamroy and directed by a wholly uninterested Otto Preminger.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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