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Name: Cavalcade
Released: 1933-1-5
Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer

Cavalcade

NR
1h 50m
1933

66%

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In this Best Picture Oscar® Winner based on Noel Coward’s classic play, a British family’s triumphs and tragedies unfold across the decades of the early twentieth century. The sweeping saga follows two families – a wealthy London family and their servant couple – from the time the men go off to war, to Queen Victoria’s death, to the sinking of the Titanic, all while telling their personal stories.

Director:

Frank Lloyd

Producer:

Winfield Sheehan, Frank Lloyd

Writer:

Sonya Levien, Reginald Berkeley, Noel Coward

Cast:

Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

66%

Critics Consensus: Though solidly acted and pleasant to look at, Cavalcade lacks cohesion, and sacrifices true emotion for mawkishness.

Reviews

The Film Yap

Christopher Lloyd

One of the earliest Best Picture Oscar winners has all the hallmark limitations of its time, but is still a moving and effective look at one British family through years of war, strife and joy.

It remains a tad fruitless and humdrum, and is heavy on the dramatization of the passing of time.

June 27, 2023

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Inquirer Staff

Quite as much as the cast, if not far more deserving of praise, is the superior direction of Frank Lloyd who has handled the unwieldy and sprawling material with disciplined intelligence and understanding art.

The self-conscious good taste of it all creaks, but Noël Coward knows plenty of tricks, and the performers know how to get the most out of his lines.

The production is technically brilliant if not very imaginative, and I got, as I did from the presentation in London, the sense of time’s tragedy which Mr. Coward intended us to have.

February 18, 2022

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