Life with Father
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Time Out says
Clarence Day Jr's tribute to his stern philosophising dad was turned into a play (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) that ran for more than 3,000 performances on Broadway, a record in its day, so it's no surprise Donald Ogden Stewart's film adaptation should prove such a satisfying entertainment. Powell dominates an episodic collection of domestic vignettes, with Dunne as the long-suffering wife, young Lydon the future author, and teenage Elizabeth Taylor the intermittent romance angle. Rudimentary comic strategies - the old boy's manful resistance to his belated baptism can only last so long - come up shining thanks to Powell's neatly judged inscription of the reluctant softie behind just so much self-important bluster and a theory on everything. Curtiz knocks it together without so much as breaking sweat.Author: TJ
Release details
UK release:
1947
Duration:
118 mins
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Cast:
Moroni Olsen, Emma Dunn, Martin Milner, ZaSu Pitts, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor, Jimmy Lydon, Irene Dunne, William Powell, Elizabeth Risdon
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Cinematography:
William V Skall, Peverell Marley
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