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Peter Ibbetson is a 1935 American fantasy film based on George du Maurier's novel. It tells the story of a man who dreams of his childhood sweetheart while in prison for murder.
Peter Ibbetson: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino. A Victorian-era architect commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables falls in love with the Duchess.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Henry Hathaway
- 1935-11-07
Peter Ibbetson is a romantic novel from the late Victorian era - poignant, melancholic and deeply nostalgic, with a paranormal twist. The plot makes use of the idea of a shared lucid dream in bringing together lovers who are otherwise separated in waking reality, by class and circumstance.
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Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love is reactivated, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing.
May 20, 2017 · Peter Ibbetson?is a spiritual romance in three acts, each ending in a death. I wouldn?t have been surprised to find that Frank Borzage had directed it?it?s his kind of story, of love supreme, unworldly and eternal.
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers.
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Peter Ibbetson. (Henry Hathaway / U.S., 1935): "Every five years, he awakens and dreams while awake," writes Rivette of Henry Hathaway, here is his most captivating early reverie.
