The Twenties post World War I saw a great revival in spiritualism of which the play Death Takes A Holiday is most certainly part. It was hard for rational man to fathom the cost of the greatest war yet fought on the planet. People sought answers in things not comprehensible in this world.
Death Takes A Holiday occurs in Italy during World War I which had its own front in that war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Seeing so much of it with the accompanying fear in men's eyes, Death in the guise of the recently departed Prince Sirki takes a three day holiday and spends it at the estate of Guy Standing and several other guests.
Maybe one day someone will write a story where death personified spends time with some poor or working class family on the globe somewhere. I'm sure he'd get quite a different perspective on life. Spending a holiday with Guy Standing or with Anthony Hopkins in Meet Joe Black is not the general rule of things.
Fredric March as Prince Sirki cuts a romantic and rather lonely figure and is grateful for the company for those three days. One of the guests, Evelyn Venable is a woman with rather strange ideas. What she does in the end is just a wee bit too weird for my taste.
Death Takes A Holiday is a romantic drama with spiritual overtones, directed in a lavish style by Mitchell Leisen. It's an interesting, but I think at this point rather dated film.
Death Takes A Holiday occurs in Italy during World War I which had its own front in that war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Seeing so much of it with the accompanying fear in men's eyes, Death in the guise of the recently departed Prince Sirki takes a three day holiday and spends it at the estate of Guy Standing and several other guests.
Maybe one day someone will write a story where death personified spends time with some poor or working class family on the globe somewhere. I'm sure he'd get quite a different perspective on life. Spending a holiday with Guy Standing or with Anthony Hopkins in Meet Joe Black is not the general rule of things.
Fredric March as Prince Sirki cuts a romantic and rather lonely figure and is grateful for the company for those three days. One of the guests, Evelyn Venable is a woman with rather strange ideas. What she does in the end is just a wee bit too weird for my taste.
Death Takes A Holiday is a romantic drama with spiritual overtones, directed in a lavish style by Mitchell Leisen. It's an interesting, but I think at this point rather dated film.