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Glasgow Film Festival · 2010

Glasgow Film Festival 2010

Cary Grant

A retrospective tribute to one of the greatest stars ever to grace the silver screen. Suave and sophisticated, effortlessly witty, with perfect timing and a willingness to go all out for a good story, Grant was a legend in his own lifetime. This strand looks at some of his best and most influential work.

Programme

9 films · 5 reviews

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An Affair To Remember

A promiscuous playboy and a woman engaged to someone else fall in love aboard a cruise ship and plan to reunite is six months if they still feel the same way - but will fate give them the chance?

(Country: US; Year: 1957; Director: Leo McCarey; Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbit)

Arsenic And Old Lace

A wedding day is disrupted by fugitive criminals and elderly relatives whose poison isn't confined to remarks about the bridal gown.

(Country: US; Year: 1944; Director: Frank Capra; Stars: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair)

Bringing Up Baby

The quiet life of a dinosaur specialist is turned upside down be a beautiful, eccentric heiress and her pet leopard.

(Country: US; Year: 1938; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn)

His Girl Friday

When a notorious criminal escapes from jail, a newspaper editor goes all out to keep his top reporter on the case, even though she's supposed to be getting married the next day - to the man she fell for after divorcing him.

(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy)

I Was A Male War Bride (You Can't Sleep Here)

Review preview for I Was A Male War Bride

Works beautifully because of Hawks's eye for detail, a rattling good script and comic timing of the most relaxed kind.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
Second World War mission played for comic romance.

(Country: US; Year: 1949; Director: Howard Hawks; Writer: Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Wilde; Stars: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, William Neff, Kenneth Tobey)

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North By Northwest

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It's a nonsense, but when the storytelling is this good it doesn't matter.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
A case of mistaken identity and false accusation sees an innocent man go on the run from the CIA and a criminal gang.

(Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ernest Lehman; Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt)

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Notorious

Review preview for Notorious

The chemisty is perfect. Although Bergman dominates by sheer force of character, Grant's cool persona slips effortlessly into her pocket.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
Reissue for the film about spies in South America who attract Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.

(Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ben Hecht; Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Wally Brown, Fay Baker)

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Only Angels Have Wings

Review preview for Only Angels Have Wings

A brilliant exercise in plotting, drama, comedy and action with a fitting denouement.

Luke Shaw · 4 out of 5
An Andean adventure sees a bold young woman trying to cut it as a freight pilot and falling for her boss.

(Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth)

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To Catch A Thief

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An effectively twisty little thriller with enough action sequences to keep it on the right side of farce.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A retired jewel thief is disturbed by the fact that a new criminal appears to be copying his style.

(Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis)

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