Movie Cosmos - Genevieve

Description:

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

Top Cast >

Dinah Sheridan

As Wendy McKim

John Gregson

As Alan McKim

Kay Kendall

As Rosalind Peters

Kenneth More

As Ambrose Claverhouse

Geoffrey Keen

As Policeman

Reginald Beckwith

As J. C. Callahan

Arthur Wontner

As Old Gentleman

Joyce Grenfell

As Hotel Proprietress

Leslie Mitchell

As Himself, Newsreel Commentator

Michael Balfour

As Trumpeter (Uncredited)

Stanley Escane

As Film Cameraman (Uncredited)

Fred Griffiths

As Ice Cream Seller (Uncredited)

Charles Lamb

As Publican (Uncredited)

Arthur Lovegrove

As Hotel Doorman (Uncredited)

Edie Martin

As Guest (Uncredited)

Edward Malin

As Spectator (Uncredited)

Michael Medwin

As Father To Be (Uncredited)

Harold Siddons

As Policeman (Uncredited)

Fred Nicholas

As Police Constable (Uncredited)

Joey Carr

As Mechanic Joey (Uncredited)

Patrick Westwood

As Mechanic (Uncredited)

Lesley Dudley

As Little Girl (Uncredited)

Christopher Warbey

As Little Boy (Uncredited)

Richard Duke

As Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)

Ernest Blyth

As Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)

Aileen Lewis

As Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)

Martin Lyder

As Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)

Frank Schock

As Onlooker (Uncredited)

Jim Tyson

As Onlooker (Uncredited)

Daniel Brown

As Onlooker (Uncredited)

Billy Wilmot

As Onlooker (Uncredited)

Top Crew >

Henry Cornelius

Director

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (7/10)

Very much in the spirit of the "Ealing Comedies", this is a simple and engaging story of two chaps - "Alan" (John Gregson) and "Ambrose" (Kenneth More) who bet each other the princely sum (in 1953) of £100 on which of their vintage cars can race the 50-odd miles from London to Brighton quickest. Dragging their reluctant partners "Wendy" (Dinah Sheridan) and "Rosalind" (Kay Kendall) along too, we embark of a fun series of escapades as they test the limits of their friendship, the patience of the police (a nice effort from Geoffrey Keen) and their respective engineering. The photography is colourful and the cars almost as temperamental as their increasingly competitive drivers. Kendall is probably the star for me - pushing a car from an huge puddle was definitely not what she signed up for; and the ending is quite literally neck-and-neck. There is plenty of light-hearted humour to be had, and Larry Adler has composed a suitably jolly score to accompany their automotive antics. All good fun!

2022-04-04