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All That Money Can Buy: ‘The V.I.P.s’ (1963)

February 28, 2019 By retromoviebuff Leave a Comment

The V.I.P.s (1963)

Ensconced in the lobby of Grand Hotel, Dr. Otternschlag famously observes: “People coming, going. Nothing ever happens.” The joke is of course that he’s wrong. The V.I.P.s is filled with people coming and going, specifically a group of passengers at a London airport en route to the US. We witness one tumultuous day in their […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Anthony Asquith, British Films, Drama, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, Melodrama, MGM, Orson Welles, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor, Terence Rattigan

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