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- 1933
- Passed
- Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 52 m
- 1933
- Passed
- Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 52 m
Summary A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Directed By: Frank Lloyd
Written By: Noël Coward, Reginald Berkeley
- 1933
- Passed
- Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 52 m
- 1933
- Passed
- Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 52 m
Cavalcade
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Summary A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Directed By: Frank Lloyd
Written By: Noël Coward, Reginald Berkeley
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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77% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
73
77% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
23% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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A rare beauty. Noel Coward, in an atypically serious venture, traces 30 years of a British family's life.
However moved or indifferent one may be to the joys and heartaches of the very British Marryots, Bridges, their butler, and Ellen, his wife: Cavalcade is a necessary addition to one's cinematic education as an example of screen technique at its best. [15 Apr 1933, p.22]
It is unfurled with such marked good taste and restraint that many an eye will be misty after witnessing this production.
Noel Coward's Cavalcade, a rich nostalgic look at a vanished way of life, vividly details the period through the travails of an upper and a lower class family between New Year's Eve 1899 and New Year's Eve 1932. [09 Mar 2003, p.9]
Cavalcade's anti-war message is presented with more subtlety than that in Wings and All Quiet on the Western Front. The story is more concerned with the potential of death than it is with actual tragedy - how those left behind live in a constant state of anxiety, never knowing if their loved one is going to appear on a casualty list.
In picture form, Cavalcade is a superlative newsreel, forcibly strengthened by factual scenes, good music, and wonderful photography. It is marred by pat and obvious dramatic climaxes, and by a conclusion which is anti-climactical and meaningless.
Nary a tear-jerking trick is missed (our family loses one son to the Titanic, the other to World War I), and the strangulation is compounded by the staginess since the film, at Coward's insistence, slavishly followed the Drury Lane production.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Picturegoer Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
