Stream Genevieve Online
Mercredi, août 4th, 2010 |
Stream Genevieve Online.
Movie Title: Genevieve Genevieve is available for streaming or downloading. |
In the late 1940s and early ’50s, some of the funniest films were being cranked out by the Brits, films of great wit and sly humor. Numbered among these comedies of English manners were the Ealing Studio-produced The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers, and Kind Hearts and Coronets. And then there was Genevieve, called “the best Ealing comedy that never was” by the British Film Institute. Director Henry Cornelius, formerly of Ealing Studio, had offered Genevieve to that same film company but was turned down. Big mistake for Ealing.
Buy,Download, Or Stream Genevieve! Click Here
Genevieve tells the tale of two couples, Alan McKim and his wife Wendy and Ambrose Claverhouse and his model friend Rosalind, who undertake a yearly vintage automobile rally which starts from London and ends at Brighton. En route, both Alan and Ambrose’s vehicles take turns in breaking down.The resulting back-and-forth banter, compounded with the surfacing of certain old envies, turns a friendly rivalry between best chums Alan and Ambrose into a serious enmity. In the heat of the moment, Alan and Ambrose engage in a gentleman’s bet of one hundred pounds as to who first gets back to London. Things, of course, then proceed to get progressively and comedically insane…
It’s always neat (and a bit satisfying) to witness straight-laced, proper Englishmen turn into raving lunatics, reduced to formulating zany schemes and indulging in glorious pettiness. John Gregson as Alan, Kenneth More as Ambrose, and Kay Kendall as Rosalind are tremendous in their madcap roles. This was, in fact, Ms. Kendall’s coming-out party and she was touted by critics as the next Carole Lombard. But her potential was never realized as she died of leukemia in 1959, at the age of 33. Lovely Dinah Sheridan is great as Wendy, Alan’s patient saint of a wife, providing the futile voice of reason.
Buy,Download, Or Stream Genevieve! Click Here
Watch for the classic restaurant/club scene in which an inebriated Rosalind picks up a trumpet and plays the title song. See also how a little girl and her ice cream, a parked lorry and an elderly antique car enthusiast can hilariously cramp a racer’s style. Oh man, this is a funny, funny movie.
John Gregson, by the way, reportedly didn’t drive before this film. In fact, in several long shots, Dinah Sheridan had to give him driving instructions under her breath. And Genevieve, to illustrate the whimsy so inherent in these classic British comedies, is not the name of a woman character in the movie but is Alan’s 1904 French-made Darracq vintage automobile.
This is a very entertaining film with talented stars. A little dated but a classic from the UK. The Korean sub titles can be turned off. Use the subtitle button on the remote rather than the menu option.
Web Hosting Windows Servers - Top Notch World Class Windows Servers To Host All Your Windows Apps
Simple to apply Treatments for Cellulite that Work!