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Here's an attractive threesome of well-regarded British movies. A Night to Remember from 1958, about the sinking of the Titanic, has a semi-documentary feel to it and whilst not as spectacular as the James Cameron movie it's more accurate and thankfully devoid of novelettish elements. Even so, when the great ship goes under it's still a pretty awesome moment and always brings a lump to my throat. (I'm old enough to remember watching a TV chat show in the 60s which featured one of the survivors, by then an old lady, whose porcelain pet pig was thrown into the lifeboat forcing the frightened young woman to follow, so saving her life, an incident included in this movie.) The Red Shoes is still the best movie made about the world of ballet (of which admittedly there ain't exactly a whole lot) and makes one regret that the late Moira Shearer didn't make more movies. Caesar and Cleopatra, based on Bernard Shaw's play, was made under difficult conditions in the final days of WW2 as Hitler's flying bombs were dropping around the studio, and was the most expensive British film production up till that time. The colour, sets and costumes are magnificent and there's a fine cast of British thespians with Vivien Leigh a fabulous-looking Siren of the Nile (knocking spots of Liz Taylor's dumpy, scratchy-voiced Cleo.) But the tone of the movie wobbles uncertainly between light and heavy, there's an excess of Shavian clever-chat and an epic sweep that might have justified the lavish production values is never quite achieved (I suspect, incidentally, that Senna the soothayer in Frankie Howerd's Up Pompeii got her "Woe! Woe! And thrice woe!" from this movie.) An impressive failure, then, but not devoid of interest or visual splendours. The technical quality of this release is excellent, all three movies appear to have been refurbished resulting in nice crisp prints and enhanced colour. And there are some bonus features with a particularly interesting documentary on the making of A Night To Remember. Warmly recommended.
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER 1958. Justly celebrated movie. TITANIC was not bad but we have here a more dramatic film. The Second Officer is very well played by KENNETH MORE, more subtle than the stiff upper lip type that would have afflicted us in the thirties. Do you know that the nazis produced a film to show that the upper class passengers were decadent and cowards? The WALTER LORD book was thankfully short and the screenplay by ERIC AMBLER is quite good. We can see DAVID MC CALLUM and (briefly) SEAN CONNERY.
THE RED SHOES 1948. I don't enjoy the ballet and I'm not a systematic fan of POWELL/PRESSBURGER (except for A CANTERBURY TALE and BLACK NARCISSUS, of course), but we can only ask:how did he did it? A very thin plot and the ballet.It must be the miracle of great moviemaking AND the great director of photography JACK CARDIFF.
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA 1945. I am a big fan of SHAW and was ready to savage that lavish production, but it's a triumph.
THE RED SHOES 1948. I don't enjoy the ballet and I'm not a systematic fan of POWELL/PRESSBURGER (except for A CANTERBURY TALE and BLACK NARCISSUS, of course), but we can only ask:how did he did it? A very thin plot and the ballet.It must be the miracle of great moviemaking AND the great director of photography JACK CARDIFF.
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA 1945. I am a big fan of SHAW and was ready to savage that lavish production, but it's a triumph.
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