Christopher Strong

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Steve D Really slow and miss-cast Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Shadowman4710 Sir Christopher Strong (Colin Clive) is a rather stuffy but happily married British diplomat who becomes infatuated with female aviator (Katherine Hepburn in a very early performance). As a melodrama, it's very much a period piece and suffers from the stilted acting an dialogue that was so common to the 1930's. Still, Hepburn shines in it and it's worth a view for any Hepburn fans. Everybody else? Probably not. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/22/23 Full Review Audience Member The best romance movie ever made! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member "At the time, Arzner's film was not well-received, but later, feminists and other critics reexamined the incoherent saga in terms of gender roles and singled out Hepburn's turn (her first starring role) as an aviatrix and her penchant for bizarre outfits." Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member The love affair is a little in your face in terms of delivery, but it's a gentle enough drama to enjoy with two big stars of the day. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review walter m The movie starts after a scavenger hunt has rounded up all the usual objects. So, the hostess proposes two new challenges: to either find somebody who has been married for five years and has always been faithful or to find somebody over the age of 21 who has never been in love. For the first category, Monica(Helen Chandler) takes off to find dear old dad, Sir Christopher Strong(Colin Clive), who is so boring he is doing taxes in the middle of the night. Harry(Ralph Forbes) almost literally crashes and burns in a borrowed motorcycle before meeting up with Lady Cynthia Darrington(Katharine Hepburn) who satisfies the second category. At the party, Christopher and Cynthia bond and she gives him a ride in her car before one in her airplane. Even for the time it was made, "Christopher Strong" is a stodgy movie that drags on much too long and that even Katharine Hepburn can do little to salvage.(You do have to admit, however, that she is one of the only people who could rock that costume.) In fact, the coolest part of the movie, the flying, is usually given short shrift in favor of the dull melodrama in a half-hearted attempt to explore the changing social mores of 1933.(Notice that the movie is not called "The Daring Darrington.") And I am simply left wondering what exactly Cynthia sees in such a drip as Christopher. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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