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The Narrow Corner (film)

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The Narrow Corner

Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Written by	W. Somerset Maugham (novel) Robert Presnell
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Starring	Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Patricia Ellis Ralph Bellamy
Cinematography	Tony Gaudio
Edited by	Herbert I. Leeds
Music by	Bernhard Kaun
Production company	Warner Brothers
Distributed by	Warner Brothers
Release date	July 8, 1933 (1933-07-08)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Narrow Corner is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Patricia Ellis and Ralph Bellamy. It is an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's 1932 novel The Narrow Corner.^[1] It was remade in 1936 as Isle of Fury.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert M. Haas.

Plot[edit]

A fugitive Englishman, wanted for murder, ends up in the Dutch East Indies.

Cast[edit]

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Fred Blake
Patricia Ellis as Louise Frith
Ralph Bellamy as Eric Whittenson
Dudley Digges as Doctor Saunders
Arthur Hohl as Captain Nichols
Reginald Owen as Mr. Frith
Henry Kolker as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
William V. Mong as Jack Swan
Willie Fung as Ah Kay, Saunder's Servant
Sidney Toler as Ryan, the Go-Between

References[edit]

^ Rogal p.190

Bibliography[edit]

Samuel J. Rogal. A William Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing, 1997.

External links[edit]

The Narrow CorneratIMDb

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Films directed by Alfred E. Green

Silent films

The Princess of Patches (1917)
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)
A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920)
Through the Back Door (1921)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
The Bachelor Daddy (1922)
Our Leading Citizen (1922)
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922)
Back Home and Broke (1922)
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
Woman-Proof (1923)
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
The Talker (1925)
Sally (1925)
The Man Who Found Himself (1925)
The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
Ladies at Play (1926)
Irene (1926)
It Must Be Love (1926)
Ella Cinders (1926)
Two Girls Wanted (1927)
Is Zat So? (1927)
The Auctioneer (1927)
Come to My House (1927)
Honor Bound (1928)

Sound films

Disraeli (1929)
Making the Grade (1929)
The Green Goddess (1930)
The Man From Blankley's (1930)
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
Old English (1930)
Men of the Sky (1931)
The Road to Singapore (1931)
Smart Money (1931)
Union Depot (1932)
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
The Dark Horse (1932)
Silver Dollar (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Grand Slam (1933)
Baby Face (1933)
Central Airport (1933)
I Loved a Woman (1933)
The Narrow Corner (1933)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Side Streets (1934)
Housewife (1934)
The Merry Frinks (1934)
As the Earth Turns (1934)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Sweet Music (1935)
Here's to Romance (1935)
The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935)
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Dangerous (1935)
Colleen (1936)
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Two in a Crowd (1936)
More Than a Secretary (1936)
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
Let's Get Married (1937)
Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)
The Duke of West Point (1938)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
King of the Turf (1939)
20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Flowing Gold (1940)
Shooting High (1940)
South of Pago Pago (1940)
East of the River (1940)
Adventure in Washington (1941)
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
Meet the Stewarts (1942)
Appointment in Berlin (1943)
There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
Strange Affair (1944)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
The Jolson Story (1946)
Tars and Spars (1946)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
Copacabana (1947)
Four Faces West (1948)
The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
Cover Up (1949)
Sierra (1949)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Two Gals and a Guy (1951)
Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
Paris Model (1953)
Top Banana (1954)

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