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Genevieve (1953)
Sukhdev Sandhu reviews a classic that every film-lover will want to own It's often observed, with sadness and regret, that the English don't make road movies: our island is too small and its roads too congested. Still, at least we have Genevieve. This is a film in the tradition of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, all about amateurs having larks in the summertime. ![]() Delightful: Genevieve John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan play a married couple who decide to go head-to-head against their best friends Kenneth More and Kay Kendall in the annual London-to-Brighton antique car rally. They huff and puff almost as much as their wheezing bangers, trying every trick in the book of gamesmanship. It's a sharply observed romantic comedy on wheels, and a very fine set of wheels at that: a twin-cylinder Darracq 1904 that's arguably the real star of the film. Gregson and the delicious Sheridan are always squabbling. He's jealous of her previous partners. She thinks he cares more about his car than about her. More and Kendall make a gleefully odd couple: he's bluff and hearty; she's a fashion goddess whose ability to play the bugle won her the name "glam strumpet voluntary" from the film crew. Director Henry Cornelius does marvellously well to recreate a car rally on the roads near Uxbridge. How empty they look in that distant Coronation year. And what a funny place England was then: Joyce Grenfell has a winning cameo as a boarding-house keeper who announces that there's no hot water except in the afternoons. Sheridan storms out in a huff, leaving Grenfell to ask: "Is she American?" The whole delightful confection, which feels as fresh today as it did when it was made, is accompanied by a wonderful Oscar-nominated score by harmonica player Larry Adler. |
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I enjoyed the film immensely,but I found the music annoying - but then again I couldn't stand Larry Adler. Does anyone know who played the piano to Larry Adler's harmonica.
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When it is played over and over in the film it reminds me of the Hancock radio episode The East Cheam Drama Festival when the piano player starts playing every few minutes, and Hancock eventually loses his rag and shouts "Get him out of here!" But having said all that the harminica did feature quite a lot in British film and incidental music and The Navy Lark theme on the radio springs to mind. |
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