10.5.12
DU MAURIER FESTIVAL
Island Pictures were delighted to take Daphne du Maurier’s THE SCAPEGOAT to the author’s home turf of Fowey, Cornwall this week.
The packed house of Daphne-devotees responded wonderfully to this unique opportunity to view the international cinema version of the film in the UK.
Several members of the du Maurier family were in attendance, and her son, Kits Browning, who worked with Island Pictures on behalf of the du Maurier Estate to bring this book to the screen, viewed the film for the first time, declaring himself “genuinely overwhelmed.”
Two of the film’s stars, Alice Orr-Ewing (Frances) and Phoebe Nichols (Charlotte) joined the Q&A panel after the screening, alongside the film’s writer/director Charles Sturridge and producer Sarah Beardsall.
Amongst the many interesting gems to be revealed in the discussion was that Cary Grant agreed to play the main roles in the first film, but Daphne du Maurier insisted on Alec Guinness. There was no such argument over the 2012 version: Matthew Rhys was the man for us. Or do we mean the men for us?
Q&A Panel chaired by Tim Hubbard at the du Maurier Festival 2012
