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Cluny Brown

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Original title

Cluny Brown

Year

1946

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Screenwriter

Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt, James Hilton. Novel: Margery Sharp

Cast

Music

Cyril J. Mockridge, Emil Newman

Cinematography

Joseph LaShelle (B&W)

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

Comedy | Romantic Comedy. Sophisticated Comedy

Synopsis

Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also a bit of a plumber. Adam and Cluny become friends. After several misunderstandings between the Carmel's son, his bride-to-be and Adam, the writer decides to leave. Realising that she loves Adam, Cluny follows him to the station, where she accepts his offer of marriage.

Rankings Position

#78 Best Movies of the '40s
#133 Best Comedy Movies

Awards: 1947: Locarno Film Festival: Best actress (Jones), Best Role of Composition Prize

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Critics' reviews

"Whammo entertainment."

Variety Staff: Variety
"This is as good as movies get."

Keith Uhlich: Time Out
"Let is be noted at the outset that Ernst Lubitsch has come up with a delectable and sprightly lampoon in Cluny Brown."

A.H. Weiler: The New York Times
"This late, delicious comedy of manners by Ernst Lubitsch is a notch below his best, but the character acting is so good one hardly notices."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"Ernst Lubitsch's last completed film, from 1946, looks back to the prewar year of 1938 to take stock of the postwar world and to show how it got that way."

Richard Brody: The New Yorker
"The last film with the fabled 'Lubitsch touch' contains moments of satire that raise it to classic status, as Lubitsch, Hoffenstein and Reinhardt take shots at upper-class England with deadly aim."

TV Guide
"What is the famed 'Lubitsch touch' if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?"

Matthew Connolly: Slant
"This somewhat outmoded satirical souffl on British upper-class mores is nonetheless diverting."

Robin Karney: Radio Times

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