" Superlative writing and acting make it soar. The script contains an arresting mixture of bitingly abrasive moments. Colonel Blimp, an old, befuddled British military officer, reminisces about his past glories in this witty war satire. Deborah Kerr plays three different women in the Colonel's long, but not particularly well-spent fife. To anyone who ever gets the oppertunity to view this film . . . I no doubt feel that you will regard this movie as a ' c l a s s i c ' of British cinematography. Go out and watch this movie or rent it for an enjoyable night at home. I highly recomend it . . . not only because of the fact that it is so stylish . . . but that one can perceive the unique ' Britishness ' that is stamped all over this movie.
It is funny, tragic, sad, and heart-warming. This is what gives this film its everlasting appeal. "---- THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
" The novel was great. Jon Cleary is a terrific writer, I hesitate to say it but I think the film may be even better. Already one of the year's best! "
---- THE SUNDOWNERS
" An exceptionally fine cast
- Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons -
play romantic doubles as English reserve clashes with American brashness
in this bright romantic comedy. A polished but ultimately boring romantic comedy with a quartet of major stars. Most of the wit in this one is packed into the first hour as Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons play a stately homes version of romantic musical chairs. Deborah and Jean are treated well by Hardy Amies and Christian Dior respectively, but not so well by the script, and the best performance in the film comes from Moray Watson as the family butler - a droll in the best Tony Randall style. You may start yawning in the latter half of the film but keep yourself awake for the final duel scene, drily played by Grant, Mitchum and Watson. "
---- THE GRASS IS GREENER
" Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in this timeless romantic classic. Playboy Nicky Ferrante meets night club singer Terry McKay aboard a ship bound for New York City. They're both engaged to others, but vow to meet again in six months at the top of the Empire State Building.
Although this movie is linked primarily to the Empire State Building, Cary and Deborah meet and fall in love on a cruise ship. Although many movie buffs prefer the 1939 version with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, I think the pairing of these two characters are wonderful. What woman can resist Cary Grant and man - Deborah Kerr. "
---- AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Alfred Junge: 1947, Academy Award Winner, Best Art Direction
Jack Cardiff: 1947, Academy Award Winner, Best Cinematography
Deborah Kerr: 1947, New York Film Critics Circle Award Winner, Best Actress.
Her portrayal of a nun in Black Narcissus earned Miss Kerr the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award and led to an invitation from Hollywood to co-star opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters (1947), after which she remained in Hollywood.
Kathleen Byron: 1947, New York Film Critics Circle Award Nominee, Best Actress
Made a Dame of the British Empire in 1960, Flora Robson continued her stage and film work until retiring after the 1981 fantasy flick CLASH OF THE TITANS.
---- BLACK NARCISSUS
" A turbulent masterpiece adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams. A defrocked clergyman-turned-tour-guide takes a busload of pious Texan church ladies to an Eden-like spot along the coast of Mexico where he battles their suspicions about his past, his own demons, and a young girl whose affections could destroy him. Ava Gardner crackles as the woman who tries to keep him from being torn in two by heaven and earth.
Richard Burton in one of his best roles as Father Shannon. The rich performances are superb.
The absolute necessity for colour in this particular film would have, certainly, have been a plus. Had the film and its characters been washed in bleached oranges and yellows, it would have properly conveyed the sense of dried up desperation that the script describes. "
---- THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
" The daughter of a Norwegian skipper and a war reporter meet again as she and her father help the journalist in a plot to sabotage a secret Nazi U-boat. "
---- THE DAY WILL DAWN
" Slumz Finest - One of the finest British Films ever made "
An impoverished family tries to make ends meet in this British drama, as one member of the family fights for the Labour Party for social justice and another is forced to become the mistress of a gangster for lack of rent money.
Love on the Dole,
with Clifford Evans,
was really love among the garbage cans!
This reminds me of my first kissing chore. This smelled literally as well as dramatically. It was in my second British picture, Clifford Evans, who had to kiss me, brought me back to my slum home and had to kiss me among the garbage cans. Our director was a fiend for realism and those cans stank to high heaven. In addition to the smell I was young and shy. When I saw the rushes my selfconsciousness showed. My nose was twitching! It was altogether the most stupid and unlikely scene.
Deborah Kerr plays Sally Hardcastle with fine restraint, and Geoffrey Hibbert communicates despair as the son who simply cannot find work. Frank Collier is good as the bookie who offers Sally money in exchange for affection, and Marie O'Neill, Iris Vandelour, Marie Ault and Marjorie Rhodes contribute several excellent and colorful sequences as four crones who gossip while the struggle for life goes on. Despite the efforts of the cast, LOVE ON THE DOLE remains out of its element; it was timely once and perhaps will be so again, but in the present day its material lacks vitality. There is left to it only the small consolation of a minor family drama and an occasionally arresting picture of life in a British slum.
LOVEon theDOLE
novel by Walter Greenwood - 1933
also play by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood - 1934
---- LOVE ON THE DOLE
Deborah Kerr - ' MOVIE STAR '
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