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The Romantic Age

  • 1949
  • 1h 20min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,9/10
97
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
The Romantic Age (1949)
CommediaDrammaRomanticismo

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaArlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor a... Leggi tuttoArlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape... Leggi tuttoArlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.

  • Regia
    • Edmond T. Gréville
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Serge Veber
    • Peggy Barwell
    • Edward Dryhurst
  • Star
    • Mai Zetterling
    • Hugh Williams
    • Margot Grahame
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,9/10
    97
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Edmond T. Gréville
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Serge Veber
      • Peggy Barwell
      • Edward Dryhurst
    • Star
      • Mai Zetterling
      • Hugh Williams
      • Margot Grahame
    • 12Recensioni degli utenti
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    Mai Zetterling
    Mai Zetterling
    • Arlette Tessereau
    Hugh Williams
    Hugh Williams
    • Arnold Dickson
    Margot Grahame
    Margot Grahame
    • Helen Dickson
    Petula Clark
    Petula Clark
    • Julie Dickson
    Carol Marsh
    • Patricia
    Margaret Barton
    • Bessie
    Raymond Lovell
    • Hedges
    Marie Ney
    Marie Ney
    • Miss Hallam
    Paul Dupuis
    Paul Dupuis
    • Henri Sinclair
    Mark Daly
    Mark Daly
    • Withers
    Judith Furse
    Judith Furse
    • Miss Adams
    May Hallatt
    May Hallatt
    • Matron
    Dorothy Latta
    • Virginia
    Jean Anderson
    Jean Anderson
    • Miss Sankey
    Viola Johnstone
    • Miss Thorley
    Colette Melville
    • Miss Holland
    Betty Impey
    • Jill
    Brenda Cameron
    • Ivy
    • Regia
      • Edmond T. Gréville
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Serge Veber
      • Peggy Barwell
      • Edward Dryhurst
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    8istara

    There's no fool like an old fool

    A fascinating and very vintage story about a teacher seduced by a devious student as an act of revenge. It's hard to know if this film is supposed to be a comedy (I found myself mainly laughing in agony over Mai Zetterling's French accent) or a more serious drama. The scene near the end in the cab is incredibly poignant, when Petula Clark attempts to save her father's feelings by lying to him.

    Hugh Williams was a romantic hero in his earlier career, but by 1949 he is pretty far from being love's young dream. Combined with Mai Zetterling's atrocious accent and the fact we know she is taking him for a ride, there's no real romance to be found here.

    Some interesting parallels may be found with Girls' Dormitory (1936) where schoolmaster Herbert Marshall is seduced by French schoolgirl Simone Simon. Marshall is at least single in that one, and Simon's accent is happily authentic. Both films feature a scene in a hut in the middle of a storm, where Hugh/Herbert "rescues" Mai/Marie. There is surely a deliberate parallel or influence there.

    As others have mentioned, the spanking scene at the end is frankly outrageous (though amusing for being so) and it's amazing it got past the censors. The silhouetting reminded me of the scene in Seinfeld episode "The Contest" where George visits his mother in hospital. It's very reminiscent of a Carry On film as well.

    Unlike many reviewers have claimed: it isn't the case that this student-teacher relationship would be "illegal" in the UK these days. Mai's character is 18 and therefore legally able to consent - the "position of trust" legislation enacted in 2001 does not apply to legal adults. Hugh would doubtless be sacked, but he wouldn't face criminal charges. Unethical, and unwise, but not illegal.
    8mcannady1

    The Romantic Age '49 - The wrong girl described

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    I saw this film on TV in the early 60's as a kid on a station here that aired British films on Friday nights one summer. My older sister and I always loved this film.

    In the second review here it says that Petula Clark was the petulant daughter of Arnold who was spanked at the end. No, it was Mai Zetterling, her provocative school friend.

    When I saw the opening scene "Littleton School for Girls" I cheered, for I knew it was the beginning of the film. (Sadly, every time the film aired in the 70's the beginning was cut off and the same happened with Mad About Men!). In the early 90's I finally obtained a complete copy.

    The adolescent girl who got spanked by the butler was not Petula Clark here, but Mai Zetterling (as Arlette, a spoiled student) who had had an affair with her friend's father. She had earlier made a bet with her friends that she could seduce the new art master who was the only male teacher and was very reserved. Hugh Williams played the part very authentically.

    Petula is very good too as his daughter Julie, but Mai as Arlette Tereseau takes the cake! Raymond Lovell was his usual talented self as the butler. (At the end he reaches his limit of endurance when Arlette is repeatedly rude to him).

    I well remember the scene where Petula (as Julie the daughter) goes to a nightclub and dances provocatively with Arlette's boyfriend, Henri Sinclair. When Hugh (as Arnold Dixon) as her dad drags her out of there it makes him realize how sordid Arlette and her friends were. I do remember the woman in the bar who laughed and laughed when this happened! I can still hear her laughter ring out. (Julie secretly restores her family, for her father comes home again after that).

    Arnold parts in great sadness from Arlette, believing he has done her wrong. She secretly snickers at him. When Julie discovers the malicious plot hatched by her so-called school friend, she turns away in disdain, but keeps the girl's insults about her boring and stuffy father to herself.

    One thing that got by the censors was the spanking by the butler at the end, but the key thing was the fact that she did actually seduce Arnold! The students were on a field trip and it was pouring rain. Arlette was "lost" and sought refuge in a deserted hut. Of course she knew he (as the only man on the trip) would be the one to come to her rescue. (They had spent several hours in the hut). Margot Grahame is great as Helen, his suffering wife. They had been a happy family until Arlette entered the picture.

    I will always remember how fun it was to watch with my sister. A lot of things got by me at the time, but in viewing the film again it all fits into place.

    Though the film had serious elements there are moments of humor as problems are resolved.
    seglora

    Light footed fluffy type of comedy

    In common with some French directors (cf. Duvivier's "Anna Karenina") Gréville made several films in England after the war. This film is a light-footed, fluffy type of comedy set in a girls' school in England with a plot based on the arrival of the first male teacher in this school and the flirtatious attempts mainly of Arlette, a French girl, played by Zetterling. She was a minor Swedish actress who worked mainly in the UK and Hollywood and ended up as a director, also of minor films. She is terribly miscast in this role, being way too old. She plays so over the top that you laugh every time she is on screen, which is clearly not what the director intended. The so-called French accent which she puts on when speaking English is very badly executed — anybody who has heard Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman would recognize Zetterling's voice in this film as being tinged definitely not with a French but a Swedish accent. Sometimes you wonder whether Zetterling found inspiration in Marlene Dietrich's night-club singer in "Der blaue Engel", which is patently ludicrous considering that her role is supposed to be that of a schoolgirl in England. The other members of the cast are quite good apart from the American girl in the school (too old and using inexplicable nautical jargon all the time). Hugh Williams as the teacher is a reliable performer and his daughter (also a pupil at the school), played by Petula Clark, comes across very convincingly as a teenage girl. Those interested in early post-war British cinema might enjoy spending one and a half hour with this lightweight but well-crafted film. At least — unintentionally on the part of the makers of the film — they would be assured of some laughs thanks to Zetterling's exaggerated performance
    5planktonrules

    About as subtle as a stripper showing up at a Baptist picnic!

    "The Romantic Age" (also known as "Naughty Arlette") is a British film set in a girls finishing school. A new teacher has arrived and it's a 'he'....not just another female instructor. Immediately, a French girl in the school, Arlette (Mai Zetterling) sees him as a contest....how long will it be until she makes him fall for her? At first, the teacher sees through her and realizes she's a bad influence. However, soon he proves that he's a total idiot and falls for her.

    While this Lolita-like film is interesting, it suffers from one big problem....Arlette's actions are hardly subtle and this makes the entire thing seem more trivial and unbelievable. You cannot believe a sane man falling for her like this! I don't so much blame Zetterling...more the writing. It just goes too fast and it's hard to believe a man who is as strong and insightful as he is initially later becomes a pawn so quickly. Had it been more subtle and deliberate, it would have been a much better movie. As it is, it's worth seeing...but also easily skippable.

    By the way, if you do watch it I'd love to know what you think of the final scene with the butler and the hairbrush!!
    3debbiemathers

    A comedy with few laughs

    This movie is billed as a comedy but there are precious few laughs to be had in it. A precocious and spoilt French brat (Mai Zetterling) seduces a rather stupid male teacher (a dull Hugh Williams) for a lark. The teacher is saved by his devoted daughter (a winsome young Petula Clark) but you really want to kick her father downstairs for being such an ass. Zetterling's accent is quite awful and she really is, as scripted, most tiresome, so it would have come as a moment of great satisfaction at the end to audiences of the day when the butler - fed up with her persistent brattiness - takes her over his knee and spanks her pert bottom very soundly with a hairbrush. So after about three other people during the course of the movie (no doubt to the agreement of the contemporary audience) telling her she needs a good spanking, she finally gets what she deserves as the camera fades out.. A happy finale in 1949. Today it wouldn't doubt have resulted in censorship and a prolonged court case.

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      When Arlette reads the second verse of P.B. Shelley's "Love's Philosophy" she says "What's all this kissing worth, if thou kiss not me". The correct line is "What is all this sweet work worth, if thou kiss not me".
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      Arlette Tessereau: I am turning this child into a woman!

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      Music by Edward Dryhurst

      Lyrics by Barry Gray

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    • Data di uscita
      • 18 maggio 1950 (Germania occidentale)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Naughty Arlette
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Pinnacle Productions
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      • 1h 20min(80 min)
    • Colore
      • Black and White
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.37 : 1

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