Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Cluny Brown (1946 Ernst Lubitsch)

A delightful film, written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt, from Margery Sharp's novel. Flavoursome Charles Boyer and delightful Jennifer Jones star, and your supporting cast includes Reginald Gardiner (The Man Who Came to Dinner) and Sara Allgood, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker (Brewster's Millions, Nightmare Alley), Reginald Owen, C Aubrey Smith, Richard Haydn, Una O'Conner (effectively playing his mother as a series of coughs), Ernest Cossart (butler), Billy Brown (plumber) and what looks like Pal as the collie.

There's some good, repeated, well timed jokes - one in true Lubitsch style revolving around doors. All shot with the shiny precision of Joe LaShelle.

It's a Fox picture and no Westmores were involved in the production.


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