In Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his frustrated duty bound son. But after the pair attend a lecture by a visiting swami about the transmigration of souls, Fisk Junior finds himself drawn to Dean Spanley's fantastical dinner party stories, and convincing Fisk Senior to entertain the experience may provide the two men with redemption from their loveless existence. 'Dean S find out more...
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
They are elegant, arrogant and assured; they dine, shoot pheasants, gossip and flirt, and they observe the rigorous etiquette expected of them. However it's 1913 and they are the last of the Edwardians, their society is collapsing and their lives about to be devasted by the coming slaughter.
find out more...Newman is in Oscar winning form as a drinking, failing lawyer who insists on taking a no-hope malpractice case to trial rather than accepting a handsome out of court settlement. Castigated by those around him he seems on the road to failure, but, against all good sense, he keeps on trying and goes for broke. Convincing rather than realistic, emotive rather than analytical, this is a devastating judgement on the US judical system.
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