![]() Frenchman’s Creek (1944)ĭavid O Selznick loaned Joan Fontaine to Paramount for this lavish Technicolor adaptation of Du Maurier’s 1941 historical novel, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and by all accounts she was not happy about it. It was a troubled production (Guinness had to help out with the directing when Hamer’s alcoholism kicked in) and the story founders on too many fudged plot points – such as the implausibility of an Englishman passing for a native French speaker without the man’s wife or mistress immediately spotting the deception. ![]() Alec Guinness plays dual roles in Gore Vidal’s adaptation of Du Maurier’s 1957 novel, directed by Robert Hamer, in whose Kind Hearts and Coronets Guinness had played eight different characters. On holiday in France, a British teacher meets his exact double: a French aristocrat who tricks him into swapping lives. ![]()
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