The Little Hut

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The Little Hut
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Directed by	Mark Robson
Produced by	Mark Robson F. Hugh Herbert
Written by	André Roussin (play) Carles Soldevila (play and story, uncredited) Nancy Mitford F. Hugh Herbert
Starring	Ava Gardner Stewart Granger David Niven
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	May 3, 1957
Running time	90 minutes
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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The Little Hut is a 1957 comedy film made by MGM. It was directed by Mark Robson, produced by Mark Robson and F. Hugh Herbert, from a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, adapted by Nancy Mitford from the play La petite hutte by André Roussin. The cinematography was by Freddie Young and costume design by Christian 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,^{[citation needed]} 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 and David Niven, with Walter Chiari and Finlay Currie. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

[edit] 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.