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Lease of Life is a 1954 British drama film made by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend. [1] The film was designed as a star vehicle for Robert Donat in his return to the screen after a three-year absence.
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Feb 18, 2012 · At the heart of Lease of Life is a simple story, and a simple man: Reverend William Thorne (Donat) is safe and predictable, a dull but loveable figure who bores the children in his small village church of Hinton St John and barely has money to support himself, his wife Vera (Kay Walsh) and daughter Susan (Adrienne Corri). Thorne is moral ...
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Lease of Life is a 1954 British drama film made by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend. The film was designed as a star vehicle for Robert Donat in his return to the screen after a three-year absence.
It is one of Ealing’s 13 colour films and is photographed by Douglas Slocombe (one of British cinema’s finest cinematographers). It is Robert Donat’s only Ealing appearance and it’s filmed in the East Riding of Yorkshire, an area that rarely appears in British films.
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Lease of Life is a 1954 British film drama made by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend. The film was designed as a star-vehicle for Robert Donat, representing his return to the screen after an absence of over three years during which he had been battling the chronic asthma which plagued his life and career.
