England,
1956, 84 min
Shown in 1957
CREDITS
- dir
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Ken Annakin
- prod
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Jack Clayton
- scr
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Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris, Jerome K. Jerome
- cam
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Eric Cross
- editor
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Ralph Kemplen
- mus
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John Addison
- cast
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Lawrence Harvey, David Tomlinson, Jimmy Edwards, Jill Ireland, Shirley Eaton, Lisa Gastoni, Martita Hunt, Adrienne Corri
- prod co
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Romulus Films Ltd.; Remus; Independent Film Distributors
- source
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Gamma
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COMMENTS
Shown December 14.
OTHER
Three Men in a Boat, the second British picture presented during the 1957 San Francisco Film Festival, is a light-hearted comedy about three foolish young men who endure various embarrassments while they take a boat trip through England on their vacation. Handsomely photographed in color, the three wear some marvelously absurd blazers, are harassed by the antics of a fox terrier named Montmorency, and are discovered swimming without their bathing drawers by young ladies. Stern mothers frown upon them, all in the spirit of jolly good fun, with tea and cricket playing a pretty prominent part. Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson and Jimmy Edwards and a covey of English beauties are involved, but—for those who remember the book—Uncle Podger never hangs his picture, nor is there that superb incident of the man with the cheese on the train.
—Paine Knickerbocker, San Francisco Chronicle
FACTOID #210
When Ginger Rogers appeared for a tribute at the SFIFF in 1984 (’sporting hair with the color and richness of whipped butter,’ wrote the Examiner), she shocked the packed Castro Theatre crowd at her 1984 tribute when she griped, ’The filthy mouths we’re hearing in films today’I won’t pay to see these movies. I’d rather stay home and make jam.’
