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Cavalcade

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Cavalcade

1933

Frank Lloyd

Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Frank Lawton ...

6.1

627

Drama A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"A big, brave and beautiful picture (...) It’ll bring Fox and Frank Lloyd all sorts of eulogies and artistic praise. "	POS
United States	Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"Affecting and impressive (...) Without having seen the original, one senses the genuine quality of the film."	POS
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"A fine, splendid document of the folly and resultant decline of civilization through the tragedies of war."	POS
United States	Irene Thirer New York Daily News	"A gloriously, heart-rendingly beautiful, stirring picture"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Today, the film still stands up relatively well, playing as a restrained melodrama but is more valuable for its insights into how people during the early 1930s viewed the previous three decades (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"Snobbery, sentimentality and jingoism run riot"	NEG
United Kingdom	Sue Heal Radio Times	"A modern audience will remain resolutely dry-eyed. Still, it's an interesting period piece (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"It still retains more entertainment value than a pair of other Oscar antiques, 'Cimmaron' (1930) and 'The Broadway Melody' (1929)."	POS
United States	Leonard Maltin IndieWire	"I still have an abiding affection for 'Cavalcade', but seeing it again (...) I can’t blind myself to its flaws. That it derives from a stage play is fairly obvious."	NEU

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