The Mill on the Floss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
- 4.0
- 1937
- Released
- 1h 35m
James Mason
Tom Tulliver
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Maggie Tulliver
Frank Lawton
Philip Wakem
Victoria Hopper
Lucy Deane
Fay Compton
Mrs. Tulliver
Griffith Jones
Stephen Guest
Mary Clare
Mrs. Moss
Athene Seyler
Mrs. Pullet
Sam Livesey
Mr. Tulliver
Amy Veness
Mrs. Deane
Felix Aylmer
Mr. Wakem
Eliot Makeham
Mr. PulletWilliam Devlin
Bob Jakin
Ivor Barnard
Mr. Moss
David Horne
Mr. Deane (uncredited)
O.B. Clarence
Mr. Gore
Cecil Ramage
Luke
Martita Hunt
Mrs. GleggPauline de Chalus
Maggie as a ChildEldon Gorst
Tom - as a ChildW.E. Holloway
D. StellingArthur West Payne
Bob Jakin - as a ChildPhilip Frost
Philip Wakem - as a ChildA.E. Johnson
Beatrice Marsden
Sydney Moncton
Anna Murrell
Lucy - as a Child
Hilary Pritchard
Cynthia Stock
Edmund Willard
Geraldine Wilton
Fred Withers
J.H. Roberts
Mr. GleggReleased
en
- #based on novel or book
- #mill
- #19th century
Reviews
I have always been more of a fan of George Eliot's stories than of many of her more, shall we say, "sentimental" contemporaries. Her stories were grittier, with far more realistic characters - and this is one of her best. A childhood feud spills over into adulthood and some unique pig-headedness that maximises the misery for the Tulliver and Wakem families. James Mason takes on his first major cin