Separate Tables

12/18/19581h 38m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The international stage success seen by more than 42 million people in 145 cities all over the world! ~

Overview:

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play.

Director:

Delbert Mann

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

hotel
based on play or musical
scandal
major
writer
seaside
seaside town
dorset
understated

Cast

Deborah Kerr

~ as ~

Sibyl Railton-Bell

Rita Hayworth

~ as ~

Ann Shankland

David Niven

~ as ~

Major Angus Pollock

Wendy Hiller

~ as ~

Pat Cooper

Burt Lancaster

~ as ~

John Malcolm

Gladys Cooper

~ as ~

Mrs. Railton-Bell

Cathleen Nesbitt

~ as ~

Lady Gladys Matheson

Felix Aylmer

~ as ~

Mr. Fowler

Rod Taylor

~ as ~

Charles

Audrey Dalton

~ as ~

Jean

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Reviews (1)

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talisencrw
Written 9 year(s) ago
9
Mann's film will certainly please those who are fans of 'Grand Hotel' and other such star-packed films with a soap operatic-flavor, although it definitely is smaller in scale. It has several of my favourite stars from that era, such as Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Dame Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster and Rod Taylor, and their interplay befits such fine casting. It's weird seeing Lancaster and Niven cast as rogues, that a film set in Dorset, England was made entirely in Hollywood and that the screenplay was an amalgamation of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, opened up in order to include more stars. The endeavor worked, as Best Adapted Screenplay was one of its seven Oscar nominations (it ended up winning two, for Niven and Hiller's performances). I heartily recommend the film to anyone who enjoys either any of the aforementioned stars or fine films of the era (especially ones about the British, and ones derived from the stage). It'll certainly be 100 minutes worthy of your effort--Mann was one of the best at this sort of thing (also see 'Marty' if you have any such doubts)...