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Cavalcade Reviews
At best, Cavalcade is an unintentionally campy look at how privilege interacted with a changing world over multiple decades. At worst, Cavalcade is one of the most boring Best Picture winners to date.
One of the earliest Best Picture Oscar winners has all the hallmark limitations of its time, but is still a moving and effective look at one British family through years of war, strife and joy.
It remains a tad fruitless and humdrum, and is heavy on the dramatization of the passing of time.
Quite as much as the cast, if not far more deserving of praise, is the superior direction of Frank Lloyd who has handled the unwieldy and sprawling material with disciplined intelligence and understanding art.
The self-conscious good taste of it all creaks, but Noël Coward knows plenty of tricks, and the performers know how to get the most out of his lines.
The production is technically brilliant if not very imaginative, and I got, as I did from the presentation in London, the sense of time’s tragedy which Mr. Coward intended us to have.
The subject is high-minded... But its content is so well-spun, its performance so careful and its development so artistic that each scene, even isolated, is a small gem. [Full review in Spanish]
These early reels, even though boresome, have bits of incidents that are necessary parts of the epic. If you can withstand them, you'll be amply rewarded.
It is -- and let us say it as simply as possible -- a magnificent accomplishment.
Fox has converted Noel Coward's London stage hit into a picture which paints graphically and poignantly the lives of two English families as they blend with dramatic events of the Twentieth Century.
Though the concept is an amusing way to educate, it isn't the most effective at diversion.
Worse films have won the Best Picture Oscar... there is a real argument to be made, though, that it is the most defective movie to win that award.
This is a kind of a film which is rare, and good, and true -- and one which you will not be ashamed to shed a tear over.
As director of the film, Frank Lloyd deserves the most enthusiastic praise.
It is a film that everyone should see.
When one forgets the pace, the flow, and the really dignified and lovely quality of the picture - which is easier said than done - one can hear some very cheap theatrical observations from that choleric old empire-builder, Mr. Coward.
It is, all in all, a picture that can be highly recommended and commended for its honesty of purpose and its magnificent characterizations, and one that deserves the very best in exploitation to put it over.
Despite the old fashioned, mawkish tone, I found the story to have a cumulative effect on me.
A gloriously, heart-rendingly beautiful, stirring picture of a generation in British family life.
I can only glean that Cavalcade's obscurity is owed largely to the fact that it's just not that great a movie.