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Hatter's Castle is a 1942 British film noir based on the 1931 novel Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility.
Hatter's Castle (1931) is the first novel of author A. J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Clyde. The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter, James Brodie, whose narcissism and cruelty gradually destroy his family and life.
- A. J. Cronin
- 1931
A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle: Directed by Lance Comfort. With Robert Newton, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Emlyn Williams. James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland.
- (393)
- Drama
- Lance Comfort
- 1948-04-19
On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it.
Hatter's Castle is a book of historical fiction. The author weaves in real events, events that took center stage in Scotland and national news in December 1879. We read of the Tay Bridge disaster that occurred during a violent storm on Sunday, December 28.
Hatter’s Castle is a bleak tale of destruction and shame, the brilliant Gothic sets and period manners deepening the oppressiveness and making the pain prettier.
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On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie (Robert Newton), the man who built it.
