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| Directed by | Victor Saville |
| Written by | Warren Chetham Strode |
| Based on | novella Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a WomanbyStefan Zweig |
| Produced by | Ivan Foxwell |
| Starring | Merle Oberon Richard Todd Leo Genn |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Richard Best |
| Music by | Robert Gill Philip Green |
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| Distributed by | Associated British-Pathé Allied Artists (US) |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £95,702 (UK)[1] |
24 Hours of a Woman's Life, also known as Affair in Monte Carlo, is a 1952 British romantic drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Merle Oberon, Richard Todd and Leo Genn. It is loosely based on the 1927 novellabyStefan Zweig.[2][3][4] Produced by ABPC, it was shot at the company's Elstree Studios and on locationinMonaco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Terence Verity.
Monsieur Blanc, the middle-aged proprietor of a café in Antibes, is eagerly preparing for his wedding to Henriette. He is devastated, however, when Henriette runs away with a young man she apparently only met the day before. Robert Sterling, a writer and one of the café patrons, tells the other diners that he has seen the same thing before: someone falling in love with a complete stranger.
He was playing host to Linda, a young widow whom he knew well, and three other guests aboard his yacht anchored in Monte Carlo. When he persuades her to visit the casino one night, she became irresistibly attracted to an unstable young man who became suicidal after losing all his money at roulette. Sterling describes how they fell deeply in love, and how they then had to face difficult decisions about the future.
The Spectator described it as "a film of such artificiality and bathos the very typewriter keys cling together to avoid describing it."[5] TV Guide called the film a "poor sudser, although the background of the romantic Riviera and its fabulous casino provides some exotic interest."[6]
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Films directed by Victor Saville
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