The V.I.P.s

Name: The V.I.P.s
Genre: Drama
Released: September 19, 1963
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Dennis Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Elsa Martinelli, Linda Christian, Louis Jourdan

1963

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: September 19, 1963 | Not Rated

Starring: Dennis Price, Elizabeth Taylor, Elsa Martinelli, Linda Christian, Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, Orson Welles, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor

Summary: As fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York, they wait at the lounge of Heathrow airport, with each passengerat a moment of crisis in their lives.

Director: Anthony Asquith

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 119 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A slick, glossy multi-character soap opera set in London's airport. Read full review

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This has suspense, conflict, romance, comedy and drama. Its main fault is that some of the characters and the by-plots are not developed enough. But that is a risk inevitable in any film in which a number of strangers are flung together, each with problems and linked by a single circumstance. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

The V.I.P.s is, gratifyingly, a lively, engrossing romantic film cut to the always serviceable pattern of the old multi-character Grand Hotel, and some of the other people in it are even more exciting than the two top stars. Read full review

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The performances are all reasonably enjoyable, but it's the sort of film the British cinema could well do without. Read full review

James Powers

Miss Taylor needs something stronger than this to display her talents, and so does Burton. Read full review

The Telegraph Sarah Crompton

It is rubbish, and whereas Taylor’s playing can sometimes redeem utter nonsense, it doesn’t quite manage it here. Read full review

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Surfteach

Sep 6, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A guilty pleasure for Dick and Liz lovers a long with some superior supporting cast performances. Look folks, I’m not comparing this to Burton and Taylor’s far superior work in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf. But for those of us who remember the hub nun of their 60”s romance this silly soap opera is tons of fun. Rod Taylor and Maggie Smiths scenes are well done and enjoyable. To an earlier reviewer, his name is Rod Taylor and he was born in Australia. Margaret Rutherford is in excellent form steals every scene she is in.Much of the story is silly and predictable, but with Terrance Rattigan writing the dialogue… Expand

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pomelooo

Jul 10, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Any scene with Margaret Rutherford is amusing and moving, an Academy Award well deserved. Every other scene could be edited, that is, deleted.… Expand

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