Saturday Night Cinema: Indiscreet

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Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection lightens things up a bit with a good rom-com, Indiscreet. This film stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard. Bergman’s sister and brother-in-law introduce Grant to Bergman. Because he feels he has no time for marriage, Grant pretends to be married to avoid romantic tangles. However, his plan backfires.

“It’s nonsense, of course, but utterly charming.”

And beautifully set. A 1958 New York Times article claimed that the British set designers Messel and Furse lent works from Picasso, Roualt, John Piper and Raoul Dufy for the set.

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Variety, December 31, 1957 | 11:00PM PT

A beguiling love story delicately deranged by the complications of sophisticated comedy, Indiscreet is an expert film version of Norman Krasna’s 1953 stage play, Kind Sir. Though tedious in its opening reels, the production warms up in direct relation to the heat of the love affair and, in the end, manages to fade out in a blaze of playful merriment.

A beguiling love story delicately deranged by the complications of sophisticated comedy, Indiscreet is an expert film version of Norman Krasna’s 1953 stage play, Kind Sir. Though tedious in its opening reels, the production warms up in direct relation to the heat of the love affair and, in the end, manages to fade out in a blaze of playful merriment.

As the successful actress who has yet to find love, Ingrid Bergman is alluring, most affectionate and highly amusing. Cary Grant makes a ripping gadabout, conniving and gracious, his performance sometimes hilarious and always smooth.

Moving from the New York of Kind Sir, the locale has been shipped to London where Bergman lives and wants to love. Grant, a rich American who holds a NATO post, lives there too (at least on weekends, commuting as he does from Paris) and he too wants to love. But the difference is he wants nothing of marriage and, to protect all concerned, advises Bergman on first meeting that he is a married man, separated and unable to obtain a divorce. Still she invites him to the ballet.

Cecil Parker, as the brother-in-law, becomes funnier as he becomes more unnerved, and Phyllis Calvert is excellent as the sister. Megs Jenkins turns in a fine performance as the maid, and David Kossoff, as the chauffeur, admirably grabs the high spot of hilarity with his pseudo-lover stroll-on.

Indiscreet
Production
Grandon/Warner. Director Stanley Donen; Producer Stanley Donen; Screenplay Norman Krasna; Camera Frederick A. Young; Editor Jack Harris; Music Richard Rodney Bennett, Ken Jones; Art Director Don Ashton

Extract of a review from 1958. Running time: 100 MIN.
With
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Cecil Parker Phyllis Calvert David Kossoff Megs Jenkins

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AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Thanks, great movie!

Ethan Sparrow
Ethan Sparrow
6 years ago

great movie…thanks…

alertperson
alertperson
6 years ago

Great movie. The older movies were very good compared to the TRASH coming out Hollywood now. The older movies had good stories, excellent writing, good diction, and more attractive actors. The new movies have too many flashbacks, you really can’t understand what they are saying many times and you have to try and figure out the story line not to mention no more attractive actors. And the so called actors are all leftists who hate America. We stopped going to movies many years ago. I am giving you feedback from people we know who still go to movies and continue to support the enemy.

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