Everything Is Thunder Explained

Everything Is Thunder
Director:Milton Rosmer
Producer:S.C. Balcon
Cinematography:Günther Krampf
Editing:Charles Saunders
Distributor:Gaumont British Distributors
Runtime:76 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
United States

Everything Is Thunder is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery and Oskar Homolka.[1] Its plot concerns a British officer who attempts to escape from a German Prisoner of War camp during the First World War.

Cast

Production

The film was based on a novel by Jocelyn Lee Hardy. It was made at Lime Grove Studios in London. The film's art direction was by Alfred Junge.

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a generally good review, describing it as "good entertainment, very ably directed and admirably acted by two of its three international stars". Greene deigns to praise the starring acting of Constance Bennett, however he attributes the lack of acting to the complexities involved in avoiding the British Board of Film Censors. Comparing the novel upon which the film is based and the film itself, Greene notes the superiority of the novel over the film which lacked a psychological element, and concludes that "the book was not sentimental: the film is".[2]

References

  1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERYTHING IS THUNDER (1936) . 10 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090902210950/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32600 . 2 September 2009 . dead .
  2. Greene. Graham. Graham Greene. 21 August 1936. Everything is Thunder/Die Kribbebijter. The Spectator. (reprinted in: Book: Taylor. John Russell. John Russell Taylor. 1980. The Pleasure Dome. 94–95. 0192812866.)