My Brother Jonathan 1947 - Page 2 - Britmovie

Joe Fraguela · 24-01-2008, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Crook

Sorry, I misunderstood. Yes, he usually played a "good dependable sort".
But he could do light-hearted as well. Like when he played Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Steve

I enjoyed his performance in The Franchise Affair from 1951 starring alongside his wife Dulcie Gray. Another highly enjoyable film and enjoy Marjorie Fielding's performance.

Rob Compton · 24-01-2008, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Fraguela

I enjoyed his performance in The Franchise Affair from 1951 starring alongside his wife Dulcie Gray. Another highly enjoyable film and enjoy Marjorie Fielding's performance.

If you enjoyed the film (as I did) then you would also enjoy the book by Josephine Tey

rgds
Rob

maturin · 25-01-2008, 05:47 AM

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I believe Michael Dennison is one of the stars.

Just for the record, it's Michael Denison

Steve:

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But he could do light-hearted as well. Like when he played Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

I agree, I thought he made an excellent and believable Algernon, the character who opens the action and gets many of the good lines, at least in the first act:

"Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner."

Michael's manner is perfect for Wilde - he plays it straight and doesn't primp and preen for laughs like Rupert Everett in the remake.

Richard

nanduthalange · 18-02-2008, 09:26 PM

Well, as a medical man myself, I certainly find Michael Denison's portrayal of lost love and lost hopes, struggling in adversity against a brutal and semi-corrupt system has resonances to the present day. Yes, the portrayal is undemonstrative and indeed quintessentially English - though this is the England of the 1940s, not the noisesome and vile Brit culture of the current pseudo-celeb age.

Dulcie Gray similarly is restrained and all the more moving on that account.

The difference between then and now is epitomised by the difference between, say, Brief Encounter, and the English Patient. Putting others before oneself seems to me to be a redundant concept now, but perhaps there is still something of that in medicine.

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18-02-2008, 09:26 PM	#19
nanduthalange has no status. Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Norwich Posts: 32 Country: iTrader: (1)	Well, as a medical man myself, I certainly find Michael Denison's portrayal of lost love and lost hopes, struggling in adversity against a brutal and semi-corrupt system has resonances to the present day. Yes, the portrayal is undemonstrative and indeed quintessentially English - though this is the England of the 1940s, not the noisesome and vile Brit culture of the current pseudo-celeb age. Dulcie Gray similarly is restrained and all the more moving on that account. The difference between then and now is epitomised by the difference between, say, Brief Encounter, and the English Patient. Putting others before oneself seems to me to be a redundant concept now, but perhaps there is still something of that in medicine.