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    V.I.P.s, The (1963)

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    Made principally to cash in on the Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor romance – the movie raced Cleopatra into the cinemas – this is a glossy, but tedious drama set in the VIP lounge of the then London Airport.

    A group of mismatched jet-setters simmer in an emotional pressure-cooker as fog and bad weather forces an unscheduled overnight stay.

    Elizabeth Taylor is jilting billionaire husband Richard Burton for gigolo Louis Jourdan because he “needs” her and Burton apparently doesn’t.

    Only Margaret Rutherford’s deliriously dotty, Oscar-winning duchess and Orson Welles’ movie mogul fleeing the taxman breathe life into the bottomless pit of clichés. Other celebrities on view include Maggie Smith and even David Frost.

    The screenplay – which MGM originally called International Hotel – is by Terence Rattigan, perhaps the most prestigious British playwright since Noël Coward, whose later career was to suffer at the hands of John Osborne and other “angry young men” of the British theatre.

    Frances Andros
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Paul Andros
    Richard Burton
    Marc Champselle
    Louis Jourdan
    Gloria Gritti
    Elsa Martinelli
    Duchess of Brighton
    Margaret Rutherford
    Miss Mead
    Maggie Smith
    Les Mangrum
    Rod Taylor
    Miriam Marshall
    Linda Christian
    Max Buda
    Orson Welles
    Commander Millbank
    Dennis Price
    Sanders
    Richard Wattis
    Joslin
    Ronald Fraser
    Reporter
    David Frost

    Director
    Anthony Asquith

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