While I Live
| While I Live | |
|---|---|
 UK DVD cover | |
| Directed by | John Harlow |
| Written by | John Harlow, Doreen Montgomery |
| Based on | play This Same Garden by Robert Bell |
| Produced by | Edward Dryhurst |
| Starring | Sonia Dresdel Tom Walls Carol Raye |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Edited by | Doug Robertson |
| Music by | Charles Williams |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (UK) |
Release date | 7 October 1947 |
Running time | 85 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £200,000[1] |
While I Live is a 1947 British
Plot
In Cornwall in 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unable to come to terms with Olwen's death and the guilt of her own role in it, over the years becoming a reclusive, obsessive figure whose main raison d'être is to keep Olwen's memory alive. Olwen's final composition gains her posthumous recognition, and each year on the anniversary of her death it is broadcast on the radio.
On the 25th anniversary of Olwen's death, Julia is listening to the broadcast when she hears a frantic knocking at the door and opens it to admit an unknown young woman (
Cast
- Sonia Dresdel as Julia Trevelyan
- Tom Walls as Nehemiah
- Carol Raye as Sally Grant
- Patricia Burke as Christine Sloan
- Clifford Evans as Peter Sloan
- John Warwick as George Grant
- Audrey Fildes as Olwen Trevelyan
- Charles Victor as Sgt. Pearne
- Edward Lexy as Selby
- Ernest Butcher as Ambrose
- Enid Hewit as Ruth
- Sally Rogers as Hannah
References
- ^ "JOHN WARWICK HOME". Warwick Daily News. No. 8742. Queensland, Australia. 11 August 1947. p. 2. Retrieved 8 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "While I Live (1947)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.
- ^ "While I Live (1947) - Music - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ David Parkinson. "While I Live". RadioTimes.
- ^ Hal Erickson. "While I Love (1947) - John Harlow - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
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External links
- While I Live at the British Film Institute
- While I Live at IMDb
- While I Live at AllMovie
