Brief Ecstasy is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden Travers and Marie Ney.
Edmond T. Gréville was a French film director and screenwriter. The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of... René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris , he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne , Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés , Remous with Françoise Rosay , and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody , with Lupe Vélez.more