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Time Out says

Asquith, once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party and a determinedly radical film-maker, subsided in the '50s and '60s into lavish productions which were in some cases entertaining and glossy, but politically middle-of-the-road conservative. This one concerns the various problems and predicaments of a group of wealthy people stranded at London Airport by fog. The level of the Terence Rattigan script is typified by the episode in which 'devoted secretary' Maggie Smith persuades millionaire Richard Burton to write a cheque for a vast sum of money in order to save her boss (Rod Taylor) from ruin. The performances are all reasonably enjoyable, but it's the sort of film the British cinema could well do without.

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Release details

UK release:

1963

Duration:

119 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Cast:

Linda Christian, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, Elsa Martinelli, Louis Jourdan, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Dennis Price

Music:

Miklós Rozsa

Art Director:

William Kellner

Editor:

Frank Clarke

Cinematography:

Jack Hildyard

Screenwriter:

Terence Rattigan

Producer:

Anatole De Grunwald

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  • Interesting view, but it's Kate's song and therefore her inttepreration. We can all evaluate it, and say we would have created something different, that's the easy part. but would it have been better? I'm not so sure, it would simply have been different. I do agree that the snowman melting is grotesque though. I have watched it once- I cannot bring myself to watch it again.

    Interesting view, but it' Sun Sep 2 2012
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