Madonna of the Seven Moons (1946)

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I only voted this film 3/10.I agreed with James Hitchcock's above user review which is accurate and to the point.I suppose (unlike today) if you had survived WW11 in 1945 you did not have much choice when going to the cinema for some needed light relief.This film is supposedly set in Florence/Italy yet it is a place where everyone speaks perfect English and as another user humorously put it in their comments, sound as if they are all at the Hunt Ball in Cheltenham!Not a word of "Parliamo Italiano" was heard throughout even by the "peasant locals".Most farcical casting was the mother - Phyllis Calvert who looked and was the same age as her grown daughter - Patricia Roc (a point made by other reviewers).Yet again we have a claustrophobically studio bound set with no relief of exterior shots and where the whole of Florence seems to be traversed in a 50 sq.yard of studio area and where characters suddenly appear in 5mins from one scene to another!A typical example was when Stewart Granger, in a comical fiesta outfit, appeared in the same bedroom as Phyllis Calvert (whose character had just died).Who let him into the villa? - I did not see how he gained entry! Normally I enjoy the Gainsborough melodramas as long as they have some credulity, e.g. "Love Story" (1944), "The Man in Grey" (1943) and of course "The Wicked Lady" (1945) but this film was one of Gainsborough's duds, war or no war.The screenwriter/producer in my opinion have a lot to answer for producing this travesty.

I saw this movie when it first came out and have yet to figure out why it was such a popular success. Its surely one of the silliest movies ever made with a a cast of English actors in operatic style Gypsy get-up -seems everyone wore jangly earing's and swaggered around while Phyllis Calvert (God rest her) one of the most English of actresses portrayed an Italian girl possessed by wayward uncontrollable passions (usually portrayed in those days by the luscious Gina Lollobrigida) Its really a trip through the costume wardrobe of an Italian opera. See it strictly for laughs. It would have only needed the Ritz brothers to appear half way though to get the whole thing together

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*I saw this film during my Intro. to British Cinema class and I thought it was fantastic. Just like a great film does, I was hooked after 10 minutes and I never expected what happened to happen. This must have been a groud-breaking film for the time...hinting at a rape scene involving an older man and a young girl that leaves her mentally scarred for the rest of her life, a woman with double-personalities, lots of sexual undertones...If you haven't seen it, make sure you do. One of the best films I saw the past year.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!!I was taken to see this film by my parents (in the first week of April 1945) and so had no option but to sit through it. The scenes involving the change of mood in Maddalena when her split personality came into play, accompanied by matching music, I found absolutely and completely terrifying, so much so that I hardly dared look at the screen for fear of what would happen next. Sinister, mysterious, shadowy, menacing - these were my impressions of the film. To see it on video many years later was to be reminded vividly of these childhood reactions. An absolutely unique film! I have no doubt that it can be criticised on many technical grounds, but that meant nothing to a boy of 9. The whole thing was quite simply an extraordinary experience.