Philomel Cottage
by Agatha Christieliterary work· published 1924
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Adaptations (2)
Philomel Cottage has been adapted into 2 films, from 1937 to 1947. The most recent is Love from a Stranger (1947).
Love from a Stranger1937 · film · 86 min · dir. Rowland V. Lee · IMDb ↗IMDb6.5Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
Love from a Stranger1947 · film · 81 min · dir. Richard Whorf · IMDb ↗IMDb5.9Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
