Genevieve (1953)

Highly Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Henry Cornelius

Writer: William Rose

Cinematographer: Christopher Challis

Composer: Larry Adler

Cast: John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall

At the climax of the London to Brighton Rally, an alcohol, machismo, and jealousy fuelled night of increasing tensions leads to two old friends making a £100 wager on whose classic car will make it back to London first the next day, much to the chagrin of their charming female companions, in Cornelius’s beautifully nuanced, decidedly tittersome, and quite delightful look at gently evolving post-war attitudes. Iain.Stott