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Merchant of Love

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Merchant of Love
Directed byEdmond T. Gréville
Written by
Produced byGus Ostwalt
Starring
CinematographyGosta Kottula
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byJacques Belasco
Production
company
H.O. Films
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 21 June 1935 (1935-06-21)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Merchant of Love (French: Marchand d'amour) is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Jean Galland, Rosine Deréan and Françoise Rosay.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild.

Cast

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Reception

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Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly positive review, characterizing it as "a melodramatic and rather silly tale [...] directed with immense panache and a secret sense of amusement".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Mazdon & Wheatley p.24
  2. ^ Greene, Graham (18 September 1936). "The Great Ziegfeld/It's Love Again/Marchand d'Amour/East Meets West". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 101. ISBN 0192812866.)

Bibliography

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  • Lucy Mazdon & Catherine Wheatley. Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations. Berghahn Books, 2010.
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