The Painted Veil

1934

Action / Drama / Romance

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1850 1.9K

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Plot summary

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

Director

Richard Boleslawski Photo
Richard Boleslawski

Top cast

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Forrester Harvey as Waddington
Leyland Hodgson Photo
Leyland Hodgson as Polo Player
W.H. Davis Photo
W.H. Davis as German
Ricca Allen Photo
Ricca Allen as Fish-Faced Mother
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775.33 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.41 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by marcin_kukuczka 8 / 10

Garbo's presence + moral plot = THE PAINTED VEIL

Reviewed by brogmiller 7 / 10

"Lift not the painted veil which those who live call Life." Shelley.

The future looked a little uncertain for Greta Garbo in 1934. Under pressure from the rampant, crackpot Catholic League of Decency whose members were boycotting movie theatres and declaring 'purify or destroy Hollywood', the usually malleable Joseph Breen was obliged to make even stricter the Production Code. 'Mata Hari' was cut and 'Queen Christina' taken out of circulation whilst this adaptation of Somerset Maugham's 'The Painted Veil' needed to tone down its so-called sexual content and instead reflect moral values.These factors alone cannot entirely explain why this film disappoints. Garbo's scenes with Herbert Marshall are excellent and there is a chemistry between her and George Brent owing to their relationship at the time being more than just professional. It just lacks that 'alchemy' by which everything comes together and falls below director Richard Boleslawski's usual high standards.Garbo need not have worried as David 0. Selznick was soon to come to her aid. Whatever its flaws and despite being the least faithful to Maugham's original it remains, for this viewer at any rate, the most entertaining of the three versions. 'The Seventh Sin' of Ronald Neame and an uncredited Vincente Minnelli is rather lacklustre whilst it is probably kinder to draw a discreet veil over the most recent version directed by someone named John Curran.
Reviewed by brogmiller 7 / 10

Lift not the painted veil which those who live call Life

The future looked a little uncertain for Greta Garbo in 1934. Under pressure from the rampant, crackpot Catholic League of Decency whose members were boycotting movie theatres and declaring 'purify or destroy Hollywood', the usually malleable Joseph Breen was obliged to make even stricter the Production Code. 'Mata Hari' was cut and 'Queen Christina' taken out of circulation whilst this adaptation of Somerset Maugham's 'The Painted Veil' needed to tone down its so-called sexual content and instead reflect moral values. These factors alone cannot entirely explain why this film disappoints. Garbo's scenes with Herbert Marshall are excellent and there is a chemistry between her and George Brent owing to their relationship at the time being more than just professional. It just lacks that 'alchemy' by which everything comes together and falls below director Richard Boleslawski's usual high standards. Garbo need not have worried as David 0. Selznick was soon to come to her aid. Whatever its flaws it is still the best of the three versions. 'The Seventh Sin' of Ronald Neame is lacklustre and watching it means enduring the abominable acting of Bill Travers. The more recent version directed by someone named John Curran is utterly worthless.
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