The Loves of Joanna Godden

1947
1h 29m

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On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.

Directors
- Charles Frend
- Robert Hamer
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6.7/10

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Directors
- Charles Frend
- Robert Hamer
Writers
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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10jromanbaker

A Great, great film

This is one of the finest films ever made in the UK. Everything is perfect about it from the direction, to the luminous cinematography and the tour de force performance by Googie Withers. She was one of the finest actors the UK had and she made a handful of films that will hopefully last the test of time. Vaughan Williams gives one of the best musical scores ever written, adding to the magic of the film. The film evokes Romney Marsh in all its beauty, and despite the fact that it deviates somewhat from the original Sheila Kaye-Smith novel the alternatives chosen did not offend me, not altering a bit my love for the book. The book is worth finding as well as seeing this wonderful film. A full ten for a film that is unique in its power to capture landscape and the people who lived on the land in farms at the turn of the 20th C. Essential Cinema.

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Trivia
The locomotive, filmed at Lydd Town station, was K&ESR No.3 hired from the nearby Kent & East Sussex Railway - its ownership being disguised by canvas covers over the tanks. Better known as No.3 "Bodiam" and now jointly owned by The Terrier Trust and the K&ESR, the locomotive frequently hauls trains between Tenterden Town and Bodiam, close to the famous National Trust castle. Originally London Brighton & South Coast Railway No.70 "Poplar" of 1872, the locomotive was sold to the antecedent of the K&ESR, the Rother Valley Railway, in 1901.

Goofs
When the maid brings water to the 3 people shearing sheep, she brings out 3 mugs but when she places them down there are only 2 and one of the men, who has not been served, brings his mug back.

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: " The world, according to the best geographers, is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh".

The Marsh lies where Kent ends and Sussex begins.

A place apart, which man has slowly won, acre by acre, from the sea. A flat land, flat as the sea-bed it once was, and a Marsh only in name, for man has transformed bog and reeds into pasture. An austere land of windswept distances and scattered communities. Lonely now, but lonelier still in 1905.