---
title: 'Frenchman''s Creek (1944)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mitchell Leisen'
released: '1944-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 112
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/frenchmans-creek-1944'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036840/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Frenchman's Creek (1944)

1944 · 112 min · Drama, Adventure, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 adventure film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1941 novel of the same name, about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce. Filmed in Technicolor, it was directed by Mitchell Leisen. The musical score was by Victor Young, who incorporated the main theme of French composer Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune as the love theme for the film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mitchell Leisen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-leisen)
- **Screenplay:** [Talbot Jennings](https://cinepixo.com/people/talbot-jennings)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-young)
- **Producer:** [Buddy DeSylva](https://cinepixo.com/people/buddy-desylva)
- **Director of Photography:** [George Barnes](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-barnes)
- **Editor:** [Alma Macrorie](https://cinepixo.com/people/alma-macrorie)

## Cast

- [Cecil Kellaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-kellaway)
- [Nigel Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-bruce)
- [Moyna Macgill](https://cinepixo.com/people/moyna-macgill)
- [Arturo de Córdova](https://cinepixo.com/people/arturo-de-cordova)
- [Basil Rathbone](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-rathbone)
- [Ralph Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-forbes)
- [David James](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-james-3)
- [Joan Fontaine](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-fontaine)
- [Charles Pearce Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-pearce-coleman)
- [Harald Maresch](https://cinepixo.com/people/harald-maresch)

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