The Kingfisher
by James Cellan Jones
List Price:
Our Price: $10.55
You Save: $9.43 (47%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $5.44 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Cyril Cusack, Gary Owen, Rex Harrison, Wendy HillerDirector: James Cellan Jones
Brand: BFS ENT and Multimedia Limi
Editor: Keith Judge
Producer: John Rosenberg
Producer: John Woolf
Writer: William Douglas-Home
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Kingfisher
Movie Review: A GEM OF A SMALL FILM
Summary: 5 Stars
The previous reviewer clearly has a bigotted axe to grind. Why else would they use a line like "...appears to have as its point the fashionable cliche that homosexual love is as important as heterosexual love." And then follow it with, "Or something like that."
This film is based on the stage play. It is small. It is quiet. It is literate. And it is very funny. And yes, the acting is splendid. A great turn for actors in their seventies/eighties. Remember - it is next to impossible to find three lead roles when you're that age.
The sole complaint is that the transfer, from film to DVD, is not the best. For the first 20 minutes or so the film moves slightly up and down - a function of the film not being locked in its gate. This calms down soon after. Most people won't even notice it, with the proliferation of 'moving cow' camera techniques, these days.
Pay no attention to the homophobic, inappropriate remarks bizarrely expressed by the other reviewer. (What were they smoking when they watched this film?) The film is not about homosexual or heterosexual love. It's about growing old, about love lost, chances missed, and that it's never too late to seize the day - and to laugh!
Summary of The Kingfisher
"A delightful flight of fancy." ? New York Post"Bewitching fun! ... Elegant, civilized." ? Associated Press
"Delightful comedy." ? New York Daily News
You?re never too old to chance romance!
Celebrated author Sir Cecil Warburton (Rex Harrison ? My Fair Lady) is thrilled to read the obituary of an old rival, the dull and respectable man who married Lady Evelyn (Wendy Hiller ? Separate Tables), the lovely girl he once kissed ? and should have married himself ? fifty years ago.
Desirous of female companionship and feeling that this is his last chance to live life to the full, Sir Cecil is determined to woo and marry Evelyn before it?s too late. With singleness of purpose on his side and his devoted, but dubious butler, Hawkins (Cyril Cusack ? Far and Away), at his back, Sir Cecil sets his sights on the unsuspecting Lady Evelyn ? who is in for the courtship of her life! approx. 77 mins. col.
Special Features: Cast Profiles
The Forsyte Saga - The Complete SeriesWarner Home Video; Release date: 2003-02-25; DVD
Best price: $38.49
Price in other shops:
The Guns of NavaronePECK,GREGORY; Release date: 2000-05-23; DVD
Best price: $10.30
Price in other shops:
![Miss Morison's Ghosts [VHS] Image](/images/Miss-Morison-Ghosts-VHS-B00004XPPX-X.jpg){kind=small}
Miss Morison's Ghosts [VHS]Bfs Entertainment; Release date: 2000-09-26; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
House of Cards Trilogy (House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2003-08-26; DVD
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops:
Charade (The Criterion Collection)Image Entertainment; Release date: 2004-04-06; Published: 2004-04-01; DVD
Best price: $23.97
Price in other shops:
Enchanted AprilLGF; Release date: 2011-04-26; DVD
Best price: $7.03
Price in other shops:
Pygmalion (1938) - Essential Art HouseIMG; Release date: 2009-02-10; DVD
Best price: $12.33
Price in other shops:
My Fair LadyPar; Release date: 2009-10-06; DVD
Best price: $10.98
Price in other shops:
I Know Where I'm Going! (The Criterion Collection)HILLER,WENDY; Release date: 2001-02-20; DVD
Best price: $22.67
Price in other shops:
All Passion SpentAcorn; Release date: 2006-05-30; DVD
Best price: $18.31
Price in other shops: