Aunt Clara (film)
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country United Kingdom | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Cinematography C. M. Pennington-Richards Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 22 November 1954 Cast Similar movies Mississippi Grind , California Split , Wild Card , Casino Royale , Heist , Dr. No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aunt Clara is a 1954 British comedy film starring Margaret Rutherford as a woman who inherits a number of shady businesses from a relative. Ronald Shiner, A. E. Matthews, and Fay Compton are also featured. The film was based on the novel of the same name by author Noel Streatfeild, and directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films.
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Plot
Clara Hilton (Margaret Rutherford), is a puritanical old lady whose eccentric uncle dies and leaves her five racing greyhounds, a broken-down pub, and a successful brothel. When confronted with her property, Clara is outraged, but shrewdly finds a way to convert the tainted money to good use for a children’s holiday fund. Clara also keeps Simon’s outspoken valet Henry Martin (Ronald Shiner) on to assist her.
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Critical reception
'Britmovie' wrote the film "fails to catch fire despite its undoubted charm. Margaret Rutherford plays the eponymous lead but for once her dotty spinster persona is understated and the film contains a suffocating melancholic tone that only resolves itself at the films moving closure"; while TV Guide observed "a charming film dotted with cameos by noted British comics."
References
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