UK, 1938
42m, 3817 feet/1163 metres
35mm film, black and white
A British religious fantasy film directed by Donald Taylor and Vernon Sewell.
Plot Summary
A poor cabinet-maker finds a naked man, Michael, in a forest and makes him his apprentice. Michael is an angel sent from Heaven to ask three questions: “What dwells in man?”, “What is not given to man?” and “What do men live by?”
Credits
Crew
Directors: Donald Taylor, Vernon Sewell
Gaumont-British Instructional
Script: Vernon Sewell
Original Story: Leo Tolstoy
Assistant Director: William Farr
Photography: George W. Pocknall
Cast
Esmond Knight
Eliot Makeham
References
Periodicals
- Kinematograph Weekly no.1701 (23 November 1939) – review
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.5 no.56 (August 1938) p.194 – credits, synopsis, review
- Today’s Cinema vol.53 no.4342 (22 November 1939) – review
