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==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==
''[[Allmovie]]'' wrote, "Dorothy Gish's screen vehicles for British director Herbert Wilcox were usually a treat, but her 1927 film ''Madame Pompadour'' tended to be weighed down by the ponderous stylistic choices of its producer, Germany's E. A. DuPont....''Madame Pompadour'' was an especially lavish and handsome production. Unfortunately, despite its brief 75-minute running time, the film moved at a snail's pace." <ref>http://www.allmovie.com/movie/madame-pompadour-v100839</ref>
''[[Allmovie]]'' wrote, "Dorothy Gish's screen vehicles for British director Herbert Wilcox were usually a treat, but her 1927 film ''Madame Pompadour'' tended to be weighed down by the ponderous stylistic choices of its producer, Germany's E. A. DuPont....''Madame Pompadour'' was an especially lavish and handsome production. Unfortunately, despite its brief 75-minute running time, the film moved at a snail's pace." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/madame-pompadour-v100839|title=Madame Pompadour (1927) - Herbert Wilcox - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|publisher=}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

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Madame Pompadour
Directed byHerbert Wilcox
Written byEwald André Dupont
Frances Marion
Rudolph Schanzer (operetta)
Ernst Welisch (operetta)
Produced byEwald André Dupont
StarringDorothy Gish
Antonio Moreno
Henri Bosc
Nelson Keys
Music byLeo Fall
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
1 August 1927 (US)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Madame Pompadour is a 1927 British silent historical drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno and Nelson Keys.[1] The film depicts the life of Madame Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France. It was the first film to be shot at the newly christened Elstree Studios. [2]

Plot

In 18th-century France, the King's mistress Madame Pompadour (Dorothy Gish), frees her jailed lover, political prisoner Rene Laval (Antonio Moreno), to make him her bodyguard.

Cast

Critical reception

Allmovie wrote, "Dorothy Gish's screen vehicles for British director Herbert Wilcox were usually a treat, but her 1927 film Madame Pompadour tended to be weighed down by the ponderous stylistic choices of its producer, Germany's E. A. DuPont....Madame Pompadour was an especially lavish and handsome production. Unfortunately, despite its brief 75-minute running time, the film moved at a snail's pace." [3]

References

  1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/41199
  2. ^ Studios, Elstree. "History of Studio".
  3. ^ "Madame Pompadour (1927) - Herbert Wilcox - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".