Title: Stiff upper lips-- and stiff movie
Review: Famous mainly as the obscure movie that beat King Kong, Cavalcade had an impressive reputation well into the 50s. But this tale of upstairs and downstairs from the Boer War to the 30s is not only stagey and creaky, it's snobbish-- compare it to In Which We Serve to see how completely Noel Coward's attitudes toward the lower classes turned around by the time their help was needed in wartime. The classism and the pacifism of it all are historically interesting, and so are some of the songs (it's not exactly a musical, but like Forrest Gump, uses music of different eras to set the scene quickly), but the performances and the script don't really hold up.
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