Green Light

Green Light (1937)

A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.

Erscheinungsdatum
1937-02-20
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (9)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 25 Min.
Genres
Drama, Liebesfilm
Regie
Frank Borzage

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: Green Light

Green Light is a 1937 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Errol Flynn, Anita Louise and Margaret Lindsay. The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The novel is closely related to Douglas' previous book, Magnificent Obsession, which was also adapted as a film. It was Flynn's first starring role in a studio film not based on action.

Production

Originally Warner Bros. announced that Leslie Howard would be the star and he was scheduled to begin filming Green Light at the end of June 1935 after completion of his run in The Petrified Forest on Broadway. However, a persistent bout of boils repeatedly hospitalized Howard throughout the production and forced him to withdraw. Warner Bros.

After starring in the swashbuckling films Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade, Flynn asked Warner Bros. for a different type of role and was cast in Green Light as the result following Howard's withdrawal. However, Flynn would return to a swashbuckling role in his next film, The Prince and the Pauper.

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