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This film is most famed as the one in which Alec Guinness plays eight roles, but I have always been somewhat discouraged with the film being characterized in that method, because it makes it sound as if the main attraction of the film is a gimmick. In fact, this is a first rate comedy in many ways. This was one in a series of grand comedies produced by the Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s.
The film stars Dennis Designate as the narrator, Louis Mazzini. He recounts his efforts to fracture revenge on the members of his mother’s titled family who had disowned her when she married an Italian opera singer. His particular get of revenge consists of abolish, and the film consists of his various efforts in this direction. Guinness, who in the course of his career managed to die in an amazing number of films, in this one manages to die eight times. He is marvelous in each and every incarnation of a member of the D’Ascoyne family. Valerie Hobson is as beautiful as always in playing the widow of one his victims with whom he later becomes romantically eager. Hobson was a expansive light of British cinema in the forties and early fifties, but gave up acting to marry politician John Profumo, who would be the significant public figure to tumble in the Christine Keeler scandal. The film also features one of my all time well-liked actresses, Joan Greenwood, who may have possessed the most savory mumble of any female in the history of film. Mention must also be made of Miles Malleson, who has a cramped but memorable role as the hangman.
The makers of the film manage a perfect concoction of highbrow wit that mild managed to border on the absurd. For instance, at one point Mr. Mazzini informs a victim that he will first demolish him and then bustle screaming for serve, and then we manage to study him doing precisely that, running from the woods crying for assistance. There are many suitable lines, many of them almost throwaways. As a fan of Samuel Johnson, I was cheerful when Mazzini tells someone, “Dr. Johnson was correct, as he always was . . . ” In particular, I like the understated humor throughout the film. If this were a TV exhibit instead of a film, I am sure that they would have dispensed of the laugh track.
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Before someone complains about the DVD not offering a widescreen option, I should point out that the new was a 35MM print in 1.37:1 ratio. In other words, this will of necessity be a pudgy camouflage DVD, and there will never be a widescreen.
This film belongs in my top ten list, and is my favourite comedy. Dennis Sign is very remarkable the center of this film as an enraged and avenging “gentleman” with aspirations to waste his diagram to a Dukedom. Yet with such lines as “revenge is a dish best served chilly”, or “I shot an arrow in the air - she fell to earth in Berkeley Square!”, we cannot attend but laugh at his deadpan matter-of-factness in his flash-back narration. His motivations are based on the neglect of his mother by her family for marrying “beneath” her, and by the initial rejection of his proposal of marriage by the appetizing Joan Greenwood as the somewat amoral Sibella. Alec Guiness plays the various victims with a colorful feeling for each, and yet we can also perceive them as intentional caricature - particularly the Vicar. The area then takes some unexpected twists and turns before a fantastic “oh-no!” ending. Finally, the script-writing is worthy! Rarely is the English Language so well served in ANY film. Fortunately, they kept the current ambiguous ending, rather than the US release, where it was mandated that the film bewitch any doubts about his being brough to justice.
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The film is sad and white, and not DVD subtitled, but it is closed-captioned. In any case, for the US audience, the British accents (particularly Price’s) are generally easy to follow. The DVD resolution, dissimilarity and video noise levels are quite excellent. Sound is par for a 1950 release.
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