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They Were Sisters is a British film of genre Drama directed by Arthur Crabtree released in USA on 20 september 1946 with James Mason

They Were Sisters (1945)

They Were Sisters
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Released in USA 20 september 1946
Length 1h55
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.3801753.3801753.3801753.3801753.380175

They Were Sisters is a 1945 British melodrama film, directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures and starring James Mason and Phyllis Calvert. The film was produced by Harold Huth, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee. They Were Sisters is noted for its frank, unsparing depiction of marital abuse at a time when the subject was rarely discussed openly. It was one of the Gainsborough Melodramas.

Synopsis

The film focuses on the lives of three sisters; Lucy (Phyllis Calvert), Charlotte (Dulcie Gray) and Vera (Anne Crawford). The film opens at a dance in 1919, establishing the personalities of the four main protagonists and following them through courtship and marriage. While the sisters have remained close to one another over the years, both their characters and the paths down which their lives have travelled are very different. Lucy is the most stable of the three, a sensible and practical woman in a happy marriage, whose greatest sadness in life is her inability to have children which she sublimates by lavishing affection on her nephews and nieces. Vera is married with a child but the relationship is humdrum and loveless and she is restless and bored with her dreary home life, indulging her appetite for adventure and excitement through a series of flirtations with other men which sometimes go beyond the bounds of the socially acceptable towards the promiscuous. Charlotte is a cowed, fearful and flinching drudge, suffering severe physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her manipulative, brutal husband Geoffrey (James Mason), who constantly belittles and humiliates her in front of their three children.

Actors

James Mason

(Geoffrey Lee)Phyllis Calvert

(Lucy Moore)Dulcie Gray

(Charlotte Lee)Anne Crawford

(Vera Sargeant)Thorley Walters

(Channing)
And :
Hugh Sinclair
Peter Murray-Hill
Barry Livesey
Pamela Mason
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