They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
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Comic, warm, cool and intimate.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Michael RedgraveErnest Worthing
- Michael DenisonAlgernon Moncrieff
- Edith EvansLady Bracknell
- Joan GreenwoodGwendolen Fairfax
- Dorothy TutinCecily Cardew
- Margaret RutherfordMiss Prism
- Miles MallesonCanon Chasuble
- Richard WattisSeton
- Walter HuddLane
- Aubrey MatherMerriman
Crew
- Anthony AsquithDirector
- Anthony AsquithScreenplay
- Desmond DickinsonDirector of Photography
- Benjamin FrankelOriginal Music Composer
- John D. GuthridgeEditor
- Teddy BairdProducer
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Bullets Over Broadway 199469% alikeBoth comic, cool.
It Happened One Night 193469% alikeBoth comic, warm, resolved.
Ninotchka 193967% alikeBoth warm, comic, cool.
Much Ado About Nothing 201367% alikeBoth comic, warm, cool.
The Awful Truth 193767% alikeBoth comic, warm, resolved.
Crisis in Six Scenes 201666% alikeTelevision · Both comic, warm, intimate.
Yes Minister 198064% alikeTelevision · Both comic, cool, warm.
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