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The legendary filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger, aka “The Archers,” made Gone to Earth at the height of their
popularity – they had just come off iconic films like The Red Shoes, and Black
Narcissus – but its somewhat catastrophic reception would mark the beginning of
their career decline. (Subsequent films, such as Oh, Rosalinda! and Battle of
the River Plate, would not duplicate their earlier successes.) It didn’t help,
of course, that the film never quite worked out production-wise: The project
was a collaboration with the legendary producer David O. Selznick, who would
later cut his own version of the film and release it in the US. (More on that
later.) Any way you look at it, these troubles are a dispiriting legacy for
such a beautiful and heart-wrenching film.
