| Brief Ecstasy | |
| Director: | Edmond T. Gréville |
| Producer: | Hugh Perceval |
| Starring: | Paul Lukas Hugh Williams Linden Travers Marie Ney |
| Music: | Walter Goehr |
| Cinematography: | Henry Harris Ronald Neame |
| Editing: | Ray Pitt |
| Runtime: | 72 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Brief Ecstasy (also known as Dangerous Secrets) is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden Travers and Marie Ney.[1] [2] It was made at Ealing Studios.
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, expressing admiration for producer Perceval's ability to "wring twenty shillings' worth out of every pound" and director Gréville's recognition that for a film whose subject is sexual passion "the story doesn't matter; it's the atmosphere which counts". Greene praised Gréville's "wanton and vivid" depictions of "undifferentiated desire" as well as his French education in "photograph[ing] a woman's body - uncompromisingly", and noted that "the film at its finest [...] generalizes", and "there isn't, thank God, any love in it".[3]