starring Norma Shearer
Fredric March , Charles Laughton with Maureen O'Sullivan
At 50 Wimpole Street, the Barrett household is dominated by the cruel and tyrannical Edward Moul ton Barrett. When his favourite daughter Elizabeth begins a relationship with the poet Robert Browning , Barrett sees his iron authority threatened.
Charles Laughton gives one of his most celebrated screen performances in this first film version of Rudolph Besier 's famous play.
Screenplay by ERNEST VAJDA
CLAUDINE WEST and DONALD OGDEN STEWART Adapted from the play by RUDOLPH BESIER
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