Cavalcade

Something of a spiritual precursor to David Lean‘s This Happy Breed, Noel Coward’s Cavalcade (he also wrote This Happy Breed) tells the story of Britain from the end of the Boer War through the start of the Great Depression (roughly 1931). The screenplay, written by Reginal Berkeley, and direction by Frank Lloyd do everything they can to make cinematic this stage bound play by the British playwright, but the needs of a film that covers so much time with so many characters limits its emotiona...