Separate Tables

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Separate Tables

1958,

1h 39m,

Drama

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During the off-season at the Beauregard Hotel, the secrets of some guests are exposed. Lovely but vulnerable Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth) travels to the hotel in hopes of starting over with her ex-husband, John (Burt Lancaster), but she does not know that he is already engaged to Pat Cooper (Wendy Hiller), the manager of the hotel. Meanwhile, Mrs. Railton-Bell (Gladys Cooper) and her daughter Sibyl (Deborah Kerr) discover the hidden truth about war veteran Major Pollack (David Niven).

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Peter John Dyer

Sight & Sound

Mar 18, 2020

Because [Terence] Rattigan here cares more for theatrical effects than human beings, the implication is assumed in headlines rather than established: his grey little world of failure remains obstinately out of touch with reality.

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Sean Axmaker

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Apr 26, 2025

It’s an intelligent, handsome drama crafted from a very British play, played with quiet desperation under good manners and that classic reticence to break out of the bunch and be an individual.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Nov 4, 2020

2.5/5

Separate Tables is not a noteworthy title for any of the considerable talents involved. While historically it may stand as one of the most prized adaptations of the brilliant Terence Rattigan, it also happens to be his most sanitized.

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Clyde Gilmour

Maclean's Magazine

Oct 21, 2019

Deborah Kerr, her beauty hidden under the mousy façade of a faded and timid spinster, proves again that she is one of the finest actresses on the international screen.

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Isabel Quigly

The Spectator

Jul 19, 2018

It seems the perfect vehicle for social realism; but somehow it is not real.

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Aug 15, 2011

2.5/4

How do you assemble a wonderful ensemble and then waste their talents? Here's an example.

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Anakin S

Dec 28, 2018

Warning! The heroes are a man who goes to the theater to sit next to strange women and physically accost them and a man who broke down a locked door and raped his wife. The villain is a woman who does not want her emotionally vulnerable adult daughter associating with the theater groper. This is a movie urging compassion for men who sexually assault women and bring hostility to women who object. Only value is for a feminist class studying films in the `1950's.

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Harry R

Aug 24, 2018

Separate Tables is at times a bit stagey and it has too many characters, but most got their proper development and the film has such an amazing ensemble cast of great actors and actresses with the highlights being seductive Rita Hayworth, Oscar winner David Niven and especially terrific Deborah Kerr who played the most endearing, complex character wonderfully. The film is beautifully shot with gorgeous imagery, it's also superbly scored, quite emotional, thematically rich and with a particularly memorable, rewarding ending. This dialogue-heavy, sophisticated drama thus entirely deserved its whopping seven Oscar nominations.

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Rey R

Apr 18, 2017

OK, imagine a soap opera only with great actors doing their stuff. Tremendous cast lives up to their billing.

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Delbert Mann

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Sibyl Railton-Bell

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Synopsis

During the off-season at the Beauregard Hotel, the secrets of some guests are exposed. Lovely but vulnerable Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth) travels to the hotel in hopes of starting over with her ex-husband, John (Burt Lancaster), but she does not know that he is already engaged to Pat Cooper (Wendy Hiller), the manager of the hotel. Meanwhile, Mrs. Railton-Bell (Gladys Cooper) and her daughter Sibyl (Deborah Kerr) discover the hidden truth about war veteran Major Pollack (David Niven).

Director: Delbert Mann
Producer: Harold Hecht
Screenwriter: Terence Rattigan, John Gay
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 15, 1958, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Runtime: 1h 39m

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