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Jennifer Jones
Emma Bovary
James Mason
Gustave Flaubert
Van Heflin
Charles Bovary
Louis Jourdan
Rodolphe Boulanger
Alf Kjellin
Leon Dupuis
Gene Lockhart
J. Homais
Frank Allenby
Lheureux
Gladys Cooper
Madame Dupuis
John Abbott
Mayor Tuvache
Harry Morgan
Hyppolite
George Zucco
Dubocage
Ellen Corby
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Eduard Franz
Rouault
Henri Letondal
Guillaumin
Esther Somers
Madame Lefrançois
Paul Cavanagh
Marquis D'Andervilliers
Frederic Tozere
Pinard
Larry Sims
Justin
Dawn Kinney
Berthe
Vernon Steele
Priest
Edith Evanson
Mother Superior (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
Bailiff (uncredited)
Edward Keane
Presiding Judge (uncredited)
George Davis
Innkeeper (uncredited)
Florence Auer
Mme. Petree (uncredited)
Karl Johnson
Drunken Guest (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Guest (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sun Jul 12 2015

Do you know, Charles, why that clock strikes? To announce the death of another hour. Madame Bovary is directed by Vincente Minnelli and adapted to screenplay by Robert Ardrey from the Gustave Flaubert novel. It stars Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart and James Mason. Music is by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography by Robert H. Planck. It's most interesting now watching Minnelli's picture and being able to place it in the time it was made. Also of major interest is reading up on what the critics of the time had to say about it. This version is an undoubted ...