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The Return of Peter Grimm is a 1935 American drama film directed George Nicholls, Jr. from a screenplay by Francis Edward Faragoh based upon the 1911 Broadway play of the same name by David Belasco. Produced by Kenneth Macgowan and released by RKO Radio Pictures on September 13, 1935, it stars Lionel Barrymore , Helen Mack , Edward Ellis , and Donald Meek .
The Return of Peter Grimm: Directed by George Nicholls Jr., Victor Schertzinger. With Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Edward Ellis, Donald Meek. The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- George Nicholls Jr., Victor Schertzinger
- 1935-09-13
Starring in the second screen adaptation of David Belasco's classic Broadway hit The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) must have been like a homecoming for Lionel Barrymore. Not only had the prolific playwright-producer-director given one of his most acclaimed roles, in Laugh, Clown Laugh!, shortly before the actor left the stage permanently to work in films, but Barrymore's father, Maurice ...
- George Nicholls Jr., Doran Cox
- Lionel Barrymore
The Return of Peter Grimm Released Sep 13, 1935 1h 22m Fantasy List Reviews Despite learning that he hasn't long to live, prosperous Peter Grimm (Lionel Barrymore) scoffs at the idea of an afterlife.
- Fantasy
- George Nichols Jr.
The Return of Peter Grimm. The Return of Peter Grimm is a 1911 play by David Belasco. There were two film adaptations of the play: The Return of Peter Grimm (1926 film), featuring Alec B. Francis. The Return of Peter Grimm (1935 film), starring Lionel Barrymore. Category: Disambiguation pages.
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong. Cantakerous, opinionated Peter Grimm is a seventh generation member of a Dutch immigrant family that founded a family flower farm two centuries earlier. Realizing he has a bad heart, Grimm ...
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K. Cameron. J. J. Wright ★★½. Promising premise and cast, but weakly conveyed plot machinations, likely from the stage-to-screen transition, and a certain stodginess in execution hamper it from hitting its potential. George Izabel White. The Return Of Peter Grimm (1935 - b/W) Schmaltzy Lionel Barrymore fantasy melodrama.
