THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Film Matinee
| October 27th | 2.30pm at the Queens Hall | £5.00 | ices & soft drinks |
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If the rich are different from you and me, then in The Philadelphia Story that's because they're wittier, better-looking, and screwed up in more entertaining ways. This 1940 comedy of high society and its idiosyncrasies remains funny and romantic and charming, and secure in its status as one of the rewatchable Hollywood classics. Of course, you could hardly go wrong with Golden Age MGM blue-chip polish and George Cukor masterly directing Donald Ogden Stewart's irresistibly quotable screenplay that adapted the Broadway hit by Philip Barry. Even so, it's the cast that really makes The Philadelphia Story one of the essentials. Every time Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart connect in a scene, we hear the happy ding! of quality champagne crystal. Review by Mark Bourne, Feb 12, 2008 |
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