Caravan (1946 film)

Caravan
Detail from Italian poster
Directed byArthur Crabtree
Written byRoland Pertwee
scenario editor
H Ostrer
Based onCaravan
by Eleanor Smith
Produced byHarold Huth
executive
Maurice Ostrer
StarringStewart Granger
Jean Kent
Anne Crawford
Dennis Price
Robert Helpmann
Gerard Heinz
CinematographyStephen Dade
Cyril J. Knowles (location photography)
Edited byCharles Knott
Music byBretton Byrd (uncredited)
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • 3 June 1946 (1946-06-03) (UK)
August 1949 (USA)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office649,800 admissions (France)[1]

Caravan is a 1946 British black-and-white drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas and is based on the 1942 novel Caravan by Eleanor Smith.[2]

Stewart Granger later called the movie "terrible".[3]

  1. ^ Box office information for Stewart Granger films in France at Box Office Story
  2. ^ "Caravan" Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 13, Iss. 145, (Jan 1, 1946): 44.
  3. ^ Brian MacFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema, Methuen 1997 p 230