老爷车

老爷车 (1953)

Genevieve

艾伦有一辆五十多年前生产的吉纳维芙老爷车。周末了，艾伦报名参加了老爷车俱乐部组织的来往布赖顿的活动。艾伦满心希望妻子文迪也能和自己一同前往，可回到家里才知道，妻子准备出席朋友塔尼娅的周末酒会。当发现艾伦为自己买的礼物后，文迪改变了主意，决定随艾伦一起参加活动。 　　浩大的老爷车队出发了，艾伦的老伙计安布若斯带着他新认识的女朋友诺萨尼也在其中。艾伦和安布若斯不仅是一对老朋友，就连他和文迪的婚姻，当初也是安布若斯牵的线。可正因为如此，艾伦一直对婚前文迪和安布若斯的关系持有怀疑，在出席到达布赖顿后的酒会时，当看到翩翩起舞的文迪和安布若斯时，由此产生的醋意使他甚为恼怒，以至于有点不自量力地接受了安布若斯的挑战：返回时，看谁先到威斯敏斯特大桥。 　　返回的路上，安布若斯傲慢地让艾伦先走，自己随后追上。在随后的行程中，艾伦和安布若斯虽然相互作弄和算计，但几乎在同一时间到达离大桥不远的地方。这时，戏剧性的场面出现了。就在安布若斯超过自己即将抵达大桥时，安布若斯的老爷车因陷入电车轨道，偏离了正常的方向，而艾伦那辆因超速行驶而几乎散架的吉纳维芙却抢先一步驶上了威斯敏斯特大桥

上映日期
1953-05-28
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (52)
片长（分钟）
1小时26分钟
类型
喜剧
导演
Henry Cornelius

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趣闻

  • 拍摄地：鬆木製片廠
  • 获奖：0 · 提名：2

Genevieve is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Henry Cornelius and written by William Rose. It stars John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples comedically involved in a veteran automobile rally.

Production

Henry Cornelius had made Passport to Pimlico for Ealing Studios, but had left the studio to go independent and make The Galloping Major, which annoyed Michael Balcon, head of production at Ealing. Cornelius developed Genevieve with writer William Rose. Cornelius approached Balcon with an outline for Genevieve and asked to make it at Ealing. However, Balcon turned the film down.

Balcon claims he sent Cornelius to Earl St John, head of production at Rank, the company which owned Ealing (where Balcon had complete autonomy) but made other films through different company. St John was originally not enthusiastic to make the movie - Jill Craige said "the people at Pinewood thought it was too slight. That was the criticism."

St John did agree to take the film to the Rank Board if the budget could be kept to £115,000. The board agreed to provide 70% of the finance if Cornelius could source the rest elsewhere; the director obtained the money from the National Film Finance Corporation. This method was used to make films at British Film-Makers however Genevieve was produced through a separate company, Sirius Productions.

According to Erica Masters, who worked on the film as an assistant, Rank "said to Corney, 'Oh you can't use the people you want, we will give you people.' And at that point, Corney said, 'Look, I'm putting up 'X' amount of money and I am going to have the people I want.'"

Cornelius also obtained private finance. According to Christopher Challis, who shot the film, Cornelius had to "raise the completion guarantee from mortgaging his house."

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