The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin, Dame Edith Evans, Miles Malleson, Margaret Rutherford
Synopsis:
Having failed in his earnest proposal to a young débutante, Jack returns to his ward in the country; meanwhile, his friend Algernon also hurries thither, to woo her as Jack's fictitious brother from town, namely Ernest.
Review:
Asquith's classic version with a dream cast is really little more than a filmed theatrical performance, complete with curtain bookends, and a sluggish, matinée performance at that. Where the epigrams ought to fizz they often sound merely contrived and flat, though the production is handsome enough with its Technicolor adornment. A film, however, to be cherished for Evans's paradigmatic performance as Lady Bracknell; her presence alone achieves the requisite finesse and solidity.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin, Dame Edith Evans, Miles Malleson, Margaret Rutherford
Synopsis:
Having failed in his earnest proposal to a young débutante, Jack returns to his ward in the country; meanwhile, his friend Algernon also hurries thither, to woo her as Jack's fictitious brother from town, namely Ernest.
Review:
Asquith's classic version with a dream cast is really little more than a filmed theatrical performance, complete with curtain bookends, and a sluggish, matinée performance at that. Where the epigrams ought to fizz they often sound merely contrived and flat, though the production is handsome enough with its Technicolor adornment. A film, however, to be cherished for Evans's paradigmatic performance as Lady Bracknell; her presence alone achieves the requisite finesse and solidity.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin, Dame Edith Evans, Miles Malleson, Margaret Rutherford
Synopsis:
Having failed in his earnest proposal to a young débutante, Jack returns to his ward in the country; meanwhile, his friend Algernon also hurries thither, to woo her as Jack's fictitious brother from town, namely Ernest.
Review:
Asquith's classic version with a dream cast is really little more than a filmed theatrical performance, complete with curtain bookends, and a sluggish, matinée performance at that. Where the epigrams ought to fizz they often sound merely contrived and flat, though the production is handsome enough with its Technicolor adornment. A film, however, to be cherished for Evans's paradigmatic performance as Lady Bracknell; her presence alone achieves the requisite finesse and solidity.