Separate Tables

Separate Tables
by Delbert Mann

Separate Tables
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, Wendy Hiller
Director: Delbert Mann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of Separate Tables

DVD Review: Fantastic Drawing Room Drama
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm surprised this film isn't currently in print because to me it's indispensible. Where to begin. If Oscars were given for ensembles the cast of "Separate Tables" would go to the front of the line. You can't debate the Oscars awarded David Niven and Wendy Hiller but the revelation to my mind is Rita Hayworth. It may be a case of diminished expectations but Hayworth punches holes in her glamour queen persona. The script has a keen understanding for the impulses of the human heart, it's loneliness and fears alike. Despite the film's stage origins Director Delbert Mann keeps the film from feeling stagy. Undisputed classic.

DVD Review: Watch the pros work and Love every minute of it
Summary: 5 Stars

If you are a "movie buff", then this is for you. This movie is a "classic" in every sense of the word, and should be towards the
top of your "must see" list.

DVD Review: Stands the test of time
Summary: 5 Stars

A thoughtful and sensitive movie which stands the test of time. Superb performances from a stellar cast including David Niven and Burt Lancaster. Well worth revisiting. It's a pity there weren't any extras featured apart from an audio commentary. Good quality reproduction.

DVD Review: An Uninteresting Star-Studded Movie
Summary: 2 Stars

This is Terrence Rattigan's character study of five individuals staying at a resort British town of Bournemouth. The setting of this motel is a symbol of a refuge for these five desperate characters trying to make their lives better, and staying out of troubles. The movie, directed by Delbert Mann, casts some of the best actors in Hollywood. David Niven won an Oscar award for his role as a retired Major (Angus Pollack). Mann is known for great comedic movies such as, Lover Come Back, and That Touch of Mink. His modest directorial role in this film is insufficient to make this movie interesting.

Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth), a former model comes in search of her ex-husband John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster), who is currently engaged to Pat Cooper (Wendy Hiller), the manager of the motel. Other residents of the motel include, Sybil Railton (Deborah Kerr) an unassertive and frightfully repressed young lady living with her wealthy mother Mrs. Railton Bell (Gladys Cooper). She is casually befriended by Angus Pollack (David Niven) who has been charged with a minor sexual infraction in a public theater. As the lives intersect, emotions grow tense, providing all of the characters with their big dramatic moments. While David Niven offers a fine performance in this otherwise boring film, the viewers are some what bored by the role of Ms. Kerr who is known to have made some of the best movies Hollywood could offer. This movie is far from the magic of "Here to Eternity" that showed Deborah Kerr's love-making scene with Burt Lancaster on the Hawaiian beach.

Rita Hayworth and Burt Lancaster shine as ex-lovers forced to examine their pasts. Hayworth plays a passive woman in a reconciliatory mode who has not lost love for her ex-husband in spite of the fact she is engaged to be married again. Gladys Cooper is interesting to watch as she uses her status as a wealthy woman to control the opinion of the rest of the residents of the motel to throw Major Pollack out of the motel because of his run in with the law. The movie moves slowly in spite of some penetrating character study of the five individuals.

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DVD Review: Separate Tables
Summary: 5 Stars

A wonderful cast performing to near perfection. Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth are superb as is David Niven as the shy, lonely introvert who creates an artificial persona diametrically opposed to his reality. The "Major" is a caricature but played so that one is unsure of how deeply he is a phony. When exposed Niven plays heroically.

Description of Separate Tables

Terence Rattigan's pair of one-act plays are deftly woven together into this intelligent, handsome drama, a kind of somber Grand Hotel of lonely and repressed lives at a British seaside hotel in the dreary off-season. David Niven and Wendy Hiller earned well-deserved Oscars for their subdued turns, as a blustery old warhorse hiding a guilty secret and the efficient hotel proprietress, respectively. Burt Lancaster is the alcoholic American whose secret affair with Hiller is complicated when his former wife (Rita Hayworth) breezes in and reopens old emotional wounds, and Deborah Kerr is a mousy woman whose secret love for Niven is shattered by scandal. Director Daniel Mann (Marty) remains true to the good manners and quiet desperation that keeps these sad souls isolated at separate tables. He gracefully floats between the two dramas and patiently allows his repressed characters to open up and reveal their true feelings in their own quiet fashion. --Sean Axmaker

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