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Hi all! Another amazing film requested by you, thank you so much!

This time we're delving into "The Importance Of Being Earnest" (1952), which has some brilliant twists and turns. Ones that I'd really not expected at all... like the ending?! What?! I hope you enjoy watching this one with me.

I'm thinking this may be a good one to edit together to put out on YouTube for either sometime in January for after new year (after Christmas films are all out) or if not then maybe for Easter (or even Valentines Day).

More Christmas films out soon!

Have a lovely day

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UNCUT | The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952) Movie Reaction

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Maria Torres

I LOVE and adore this movie, which I've watched with my parents over and over again. Gwendolyn is that throaty voiced wonder of an actress Joan Greenwood. I first saw and heard her in "Tom Jones", where she played Lady Bellaston, and made me jealous of that voice and that poise (poor, light voiced alto of a Brooklynite that I am!). You can enjoy her in a couple of Ealing Studio movies: "Man in the White Suit" and the unforgettable "Kind Hearts and Coronets". A bitter irony: Oscar Wilde, exiled from England after the trial that exposed his sexual orientation, disgraced and bankrupt, died of a fever in a hotel in Paris. The play was written and produced in 1895, so before WWI. German was looked upon as a plain, sturdy, sensible language. French was considered frivolous. Wilde delighted in verbal contradictions and lambasting contemporary trends. I hope you'll be able to watch this ever so many times - when you're reacting, you can miss some of Wilde's fun little touches, like Gwendolyn's "if you don't take too long, I will wait for you all my life." My mother bought me a book of Wilde's fairy tales, and they are very different from this fun froth: melancholy, philosophical, and sad. I remember crying over "The Fisherman and His Soul". And of course, there's "Picture of Dorian Gray". Wilde had so many dimensions that he shared with us.

Lee Hallam

It is a wonderful play, I took my teenage nieces to see a production of it a few months ago, and they adored it. This really is the ultimate film adaptation and is very faithful to the play with wonderful performances. Michael Redgrave who was also the uncle in The Innocents was a giant of stage. Margaret Rutherford was always good value, she was wonderful in Blithe Spirit and was masses of British comedies. Joan Sanderson, she with the husky voice, was always great, particularly in Kind Hearts and Coronets a film whose style is reminiscent of this, but much darker. If you haven't seen it you must, and Edwardian set comedy about a man murdering his way to a title and fortune where all his victims are played by Alec Guinness. Sanderson is part of a love triangle.

Maria Torres

Oh, I completely agree with all of this, up to and very much including needing to watch "Kind Hearts and Coronets". Guinness, as always, proves why he was an Ealing Studios mainstay. But it's Dennis Price who has to carry the entire movie on his shoulders, and he does so ... even himself taking on a couple of different personas, though one is deliberate for the character.