His Excellency (1952 film)
5.4 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country United Kingdom | 5.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 1952 Cast (George Harrison), (Sir James Kirkman), (Lady Kirkman), (Peggy Harrison), (The Admiral), (G.O.C.) Similar movies Related Robert Hamer movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
His Excellency is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry. It follows a blunt Yorkshireman and former trade union leader, who is sent to take over as Governor of a British-ruled island in the Mediterranean.
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The play was also filmed for Australian television in 1958.
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Critical reception
Britmovie quoted George Perry from his book Forever Ealing, "His Excellency retains a stagebound atmosphere. It’s other great fault lies in the way it wastes the theme’s potential in a glib and artificial treatment. At times the film is like an Ealing comedy that got away, with familiar stereotypes such as the ladies who form the clientele of the ‘Old Tea Shoppe’, and the governor’s staff. The governor himself tends towards caricature, retaining a shirt sleeves and braces attitude akin to a trade-union rabble rouser long after he should have made a transition to the respectability demanded by his appointment... Robert Hamer returned to Ealing specially to make this film, but compared with the promise of his earlier work it is disappointing and marks the beginning of his decline."
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