Sunday, January 3, 2010

Cavalcade, 1933

Director Frank Lloyd
Studio Winfield Sheehan
Won lots of Academy Awards in 1933
Starring Diana Wynyard; Clive Brooks
IMDB Link:  Cavalcade

sez-- OMG this was long and awful:  nationalism, patriarchy, class domination, prejudice and stereotypes of all kinds are served up in this multi-generational 'epic'.  It is to be avoided.  Why did it win all those awards?  Something must have been up in 1932-33 to make this film resonate with the times, but it is not clear what that was -- and it is actually painful to watch now.

mjc--awful, a stereotype of the hack movies that the 70s generation was racing away from

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