Drama · War
American
1933 · Directed by Frank Lloyd · 112 min
Beginning on the last night of 1899, this film follows two London households, one wealthy and one in service, through more than three decades of British life. Public events press in on private lives. The tone is stately, sentimental and formal, in the manner of a stage pageant on film.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining example of the early-sound prestige picture and of the family-chronicle form that later Hollywood and British cinema, and eventually television, kept returning to.
Watch with intention
Watch how a drawing room and a servants' kitchen are used as two windows onto the same history.
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