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So Long at the Fair DVD, 1950

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An elaborately appointed little gem from the annals of the Rank charm school, So Long at the Fair sees impeccably English brother and sister Johnny and Vicky Barton (David Tomlinson and Jean Simmons) arrive in Paris to sample the delights of the 1896 Exposition. But the next day Johnny has disappeared, and the hotel managers are insisting that he never checked in the first place. An increasingly frantic Miss Barton also finds that even his room has vanished— number 19 is now a ‘bathroom’. As she makes her way home penniless, however, she meets the equally civilised George Hathaway (Dirk Bogarde), a young English artist residing in Paris in the hope that Impressionism will ‘catch on’.

Offering his dutiful assistance, George uncovers a web of intrigue perpetrated by those naughty French types and sets out to get to the bottom of it. A B-movie mystery in sumptuous threads, So Long is a novel take on an old chestnut, replete with agreeable fin-de-siecle trappings and solidly plummy performances.

 

Julian Upton on 21st February 2011
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Film Information

Director - Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough

Produced - 1950

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - British Film

Cast - Honor Blackman, Dirk Bogarde, Jean Simmons, Felix Aylmer, Andre Morell, Austin Trevor

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: PG Publisher: SpiritStrawberry Region: 2
Length: 86 mins Cat No: STW0018  
Format: DVD B&W  

 

 

Film Description

A classic thriller starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde, So Long at the Fair sees a woman attempt to track down her brother after he mysteriously disappears whilst on holiday in Paris.

Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) is dismayed when, upon waking on her first day in Paris, she goes to check on her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson) and finds that the place where his room door once was is now nothing but a blank wall. After appealing to British diplomats at the embassy to no avail, Vicky reluctantly accepts a ticket home from the hotel manager, but before she leaves, runs into an aquaintance of her brother's (Dirk Bogarde), who sets out to help her solve the mystery of his disappearance.

 

 

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