
A London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.

A hush as thick as Dorset fog settles over Guy Newall’s 1920 curio The Lure of Crooning Water, a picture that masquerades as a sanatorium idyll before slitting its own wrists with a shard of obsidian betrayal. Shot on location when the British countryside still exhaled pre-war innocence, the film feels like a hand-t...

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" A hush as thick as Dorset fog settles over Guy Newall’s 1920 curio The Lure of Crooning Water, a picture that masquerades as a sanatorium idyll before slitting its own wrists with a shard of obsidian betrayal. Shot on location when the British countryside still exhaled pre-war innocence, the film feels like a hand-tinted postcard left too long in the sun: colors bleed, edges blister, and the pastoral bliss reveals septic bruises. Newall—triple-hyphenate as co-writer, director, and male lead—e..."

Lawford Davidson
Marion Hill, Guy Newall
United Kingdom

1927 · IMDb 6.8


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