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I know it's not

posted 17 years ago by ziegler11
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but it has such an English style to the surroundings. The cottage, the lanes they walk, the ocean and the cliffs. Why is this?

[–] jblum315 17 years ago

Well, it is New England, and a lot of does look like Old England - parts of Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut.

[–] loveoldmovies22 17 years ago

I also thought it was set in England---I think the original story (it was a silent movie first in 1924) might have been set there with a WWI couple. Also, the whole thought of a cottage sounds English somehow. Herbert Marshall is from England and has an English accent and he narrates the story. Hillary Brooke, the fiance, seemed to have a quasi-English/uppity Eastern accent, so it's easy to think that the story is in England.