Another Dawn

Another Dawn (1937)

LIPS ON LIPS with a thrill of love you'll never forget

While on leave, British officer Col. John Wister meets Julia Ashton, a widow who steals his heart despite her overwhelming grief. Enamored, Wister begs her to be his bride, assuring her she will someday learn to love again. After she agrees and they've wed, she accompanies him to a hostile desert region. As predicted, she does find love. However, it is not for her husband but for the handsome Capt. Denny Roark.

Date of release
1937-06-26
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Director
William Dieterle

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $552K

Another Dawn is a 1937 American melodrama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Errol Flynn, Kay Francis and Ian Hunter. It is based on Somerset Maugham's 1919 play Caesar's Wife. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received dismissive reviews.

Production

Somerset Maugham's play Caesar's Wife was first performed in 1919, starring C. Aubrey Smith. It concerned Sir Arthur Little, a British consulate agent in Cairo, who married a 19-year-old wife, Violet. Violet likes Little but falls in love with his private secretary, Ronald Perry. The play was filmed in 1928 as Infatuation, starring Corinne Griffith.

Warners bought the rights to Caesar's Wife in late 1935. Errol Flynn had just impressed the studio with his performance in Captain Blood, and he was announced as the male lead of Caesar's Wife in February 1936.

In March, it was announced Flynn and Bette Davis would co-star in Another Dawn and that the film would be set in Iraq, with Laird Doyle, who had written Dangerous, doing the script. Doyle would receive an original story credit for the film, with no attribution being given to Maugham, although the film also dealt with a love triangle between two friends and the wife of one of them in a colonial outpost.

Ian Hunter later joined as the third star. In June, Warners announced that the film would be one of their "special productions" for the following year.

Flynn insisted that Warner Bros give him three months off after the production so he could travel to Borneo and take footage for a film based on a story of his own, The White Rajah.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended