Genevieve' is an efficient old-fashioned British comedy made in 1953, and centred around the famous London to Brighton car rally, one November morning. It tells the tale of two very passionate but eccentric veteran car owners who take part in the rally. The film marries the previous mechanical contraptions that handed for cars on the flip of the 20th century, with the center class English values of the submit conflict years, when the movie was set and made. It's innocent comedy at its best, and was made in an era which was thought-about something of a golden age for British movie comedy. The premise of the film is quite simple. The 2 automobiles they're diving are a 1904 18-horsepower Dutch Spyker and a 1904 12-horsepower French Darracq. The Darracq is named Genevieve. What makes an amazing movie? Everyone will have their very own views, but perhaps the one defining high quality is quality itself. This, nonetheless, is my checklist of 100 of the greatest movies ever made. The checklist also consists of hyperlinks to all my movie evaluations.
The London to Brighton veteran car rally is an occasion held in England as soon as every year on the primary Sunday within the month of November. The primary formalised rally was held in 1927, and it has been held ever since and is still a well-liked vacationer attraction in the present day. Alan McKim is a man with a secret. By day he's a respectable young lawyer in town. But when he gets house in the evening he climbs out of his suit and dons oily overalls earlier than setting to work on his real passion. Alan's ardour is an previous automotive known as Genevieve. Make no mistake about it, Genevieve is no magical flying machine like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or some freaky automobile with a mind of its personal like Herbie the Volkswagen. Removed from it; Genevieve is a reasonably clapped out old thing which undoubtedly has seen higher days and would now in all probability roll down a slope (along with her brakes on) moderately quicker than she could drive up it.
During this film, she seems to be getting slower and slower, whilst step by step falling apart; all of which solely goes to make her seem an increasing number of endeariing. Alan's passion reaches its zenith once yearly with the annual car run from London to Brighton. Each year he enters Genevieve in the rally, and annually he drags his reluctant spouse Wendy along for the journey. This year as common he's wanting ahead to a really good day's driving in the nation, coupled with the occasional tinkering beneath the hood. Just one factor can spoil it for Alan. He has a rival. Kenneth More plays Ambrose Claverhouse, a brasher and flashier fellow who drives a distinctly more imposing (but still historical) vibrant yellow Spyker. He's actually Alan's greatest buddy - more often than not - but put them each behind the wheels of their beloved outdated crocks, and all friendship goes out the window.
And Ambrose is after all additionally collaborating within the rally, and he is taking with him his newly acquired girlfriend Rosalind. En route to Brighton all the things goes mistaken with poor Genevieve, and a list of breakdowns makes Alan and Wendy later and later, and Wendy turns into an increasing number of pissed off. Eventually they arrive on the south coast fed up, tired, and with out a room in their common plush resort during which to spend the night. Whilst in Brighton a row develops between Alan and Ambrose. Jealousies clearly exist right here. Ambrose is a much more extrovert character and a bit of a 'lady's man'. He had identified Wendy earlier than Alan ever did, and had even introduced her on the rally himself one time. Alan not unnaturally wonders if something ever happened between them, and throughout the night he becomes more and more fed up and despondent as Ambrose dances with Wendy on the annual rally ball.
