Love Story (1944 film)

Love Story
DVD cover
Directed byLeslie Arliss
Written byRodney Ackland (dialogue)
Screenplay by
Based on"Love Story"
by J. W. Drawbell
Produced byHarold Huth
Starring
CinematographyBernard Knowles
Edited byCharles Knott
Music byHubert Bath
Production
company
Distributed by
  • Eagle-Lion Distributors (UK)
  • Universal Pictures (USA)
Release date
  • 20 November 1944 (1944-11-20) (UK)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£125,000[1][2]
Box office£200,000[2]

Love Story is a 1944 British black-and-white romance film directed by Leslie Arliss and starring Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, and Patricia Roc. Based on a short story by J. W. Drawbell, the film is about a concert pianist who, after learning that she is dying of heart failure, decides to spend her last days in Cornwall. While there, she meets a former RAF pilot who is going blind, and soon a romantic attraction forms.[3] Released in the United States as A Lady Surrenders,[4] this wartime melodrama produced by Gainsborough Pictures was filmed on location at the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno in Cornwall, England.[5]

  1. ^ Robert Murphy (2 September 2003). Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939–48. p. 55. ISBN 9781134901500.
  2. ^ a b Kinematograph Weekly. 19 April 1945. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Love Story". IMDb. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  4. ^ "English Move in With Slow Drama". The New York Times. 20 June 1947. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  5. ^ Arnold, Jeremy. "Love Story". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 8 February 2013.