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I'm a Noel Coward fan and ...


I wasn't disappointed. Very clever adaption - the master would be pleased and amused, I'm sure.






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Are you sure? Have you read the play itself?
The film is bright and I like it very much, but it's very loosely based on the play.
BTW, Hitch's silent film from 1928 is about much more important problems and interesting than the play, which is his first and without sparkle.

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The film is bright and I like it very much, but it's very loosely based on the play.
I have love everything of Coward that I have read or seen on stage, which is why I saw this movie, only to be disapointed. So your "loosley-based" might be the difference.

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The difference is that I like the film, and you don't.
I like to like things.
The play... I like, true, but it's rather one-dimentional. First try.
And, you know... in the play Larita come and go. And, well, let her go for good. Like some exotic bird, she belongs to another world.

Speaking about adaptations and one-dimentional ones, Hitch's EV-1928 is very good in delivering it. Future master's touch already.

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I'm a Noel Coward fan too, and I loved this film. Even though it wasn't a musical there was plenty of Coward's music in it.

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Even though it wasn't a musical there was plenty of Coward's music in it.
Learn something new every day. I've seen a number of his plays but had no idea Coward was a composer. Even though I don't think the music saves this film...thanks for that.

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You ARE joking, aren't you?

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I don't believe any of Coward's script was retained in this inept film. His lines would have been inaudible over the burlesque soundtrack.

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I really liked this film immensely.

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Almost a musical, in that people sang a few lines of Noel Coward and Cole Porter songs to each other.

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