The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
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Synopsis of The Bad Lord Byron
George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in this lavish British chocolate-box epic. From the vantage point of his deathbed, Byron recalls his life and many loves, imagining that he's pleading his case before a celestial court. Joan Greenwood looks like she's just stepped out of a portrait frame as Lady Caroline Lamb (whose own sordid story would also be filmed in due time). Her performance is far more persuasive than that of Dennis Price, who seems less libertine than precocious as Byron. Roundly ridiculed by British film critics in 1949, The Bad Lord Byron has stood the test of time -- not really a classic, but an acceptable rainy-day wallow. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Bad Lord Byron
- Dennis Price - Lord Byron
- Mai Zetterling - Teresa Guiccioli
- Linden Travers - Augusta Leigh
- Raymond Lovell - John Cam Hobhouse
- Irene Browne - Lady Melbourne
- Denis O'Dea - Prosecution Counsel
- Robert Harris - Dallas
- Ernst Thesiger - Count Guiccioli
- Wilfrid Hyde-White - Mr. Hopton
- Barry Jones - Col. Stonhope
- Betty Lynne - Signora Segati
- Zena Marshall - Italian
- John Salew - Samuel Rogers
- Joan Greenwood - Lady Caroline Lamb
- Sonia Holm - Annabella Milbanks
- Leslie Dwyer - Fletcher
- Archie Duncan - John Murray
- Ronald Adam - Judge
- Cyril Chamberlain - Defending Counsel
- John Stone - Lord Clark
- Nora Swinburne - Lady Jersey
- Henry Oscar - Count Gamba
- Gerard Heinz - Austrian Officer
- Aubrey Mallalieu
- Liam Gaffney - Tom Moore
- Richard Molinas - Gondolier
- Director(s):
- David MacDonald
- Writer(s):
- Lawrence Kitchen, Terence Young, Anthony Thorne
- Producer(s):
- Sydney Box, Aubrey Baring
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