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If Winter Comes is a 1947 American drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr and Angela Lansbury. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1921 novel by A.S.M. Hutchinson. The film tells the story of an English textbook writer who takes in a pregnant girl.
A writer (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love with a married woman (Deborah Kerr) in a small English town on the eve of war. The film explores the themes of love, morality, and social change in a turbulent time.
- (791)
- Drama
- Victor Saville
- 1947-12-31
- O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead. Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
- Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
- Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams. The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,
- If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share. The impulse of thy strength, only less free.
If Winter Comes is a novel by A. S. M. Hutchinson, first published in 1921. It deals with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide. It was a bestseller on publication and was adapted into film in 1923 and 1947.
- O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead. Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
- Thou on whose stream, ‘mid the steep sky’s commotion, Loose clouds like Earth’s decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
- Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams. The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,
- If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share. The impulse of thy strength, only less free.
The poem begins with three sections describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. In the last two sections, the poet speaks directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him up and make him its companion in its wanderings. The poem ends with an optimistic note which is that if winter days are here then spring is not ...
Mar 24, 2006 · A drama romance film based on a novel by Arthur Stuart Menteth-Hutchinson. It tells the story of a man who takes in a pregnant girl and faces scandal and conflict in his small town.
