- The Little Hut
Infobox Film
name = The Little Hut
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caption = Film poster
director =Mark Robson
producer = Mark RobsonF. Hugh Herbert
writer =André Roussin (play)Carles Soldevila (play and story, uncredited)Nancy Mitford
F. Hugh Herbert
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starring =Ava Gardner Stewart Granger David Niven
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cinematography =Freddie Young
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distributor =Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released =May 3 1957
runtime = 90 minutes
country =U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0050646"The Little Hut" is a 1957
comedy film made byMGM . It was directed byMark Robson , produced by Mark Robson andF. Hugh Herbert , from a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, adapted byNancy Mitford from the play "La petite hutte" byAndré Roussin . The cinematography was byFreddie Young and costume design byChristian Dior .The script of "The Little Hut" was written by the French writer André Roussin, based on his own play "La petite hutte" (1947). Both play and script are a plagiarism of another play in Catalan,Fact|date=May 2008 written by the novelist and playwright
Carles Soldevila (1892-1967): "Civilitzats tanmateix" ("Nevertheless civilized") (1921). This play was known in France through a translation by Adolphe de Faigairolle and Francesc Presas, published in 1927 in the magazine "Candide".The film starred
Ava Gardner ,Stewart Granger andDavid Niven , withWalter Chiari andFinlay Currie . It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios inRome .Plot
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential "
ménage à trois " where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.External links
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