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Sylvia Scarlett


     
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Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
6.11 /10
 
Starring
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant , Edmund Gwenn
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Directed by: George Cukor
Written by: Gladys Unger, John Collier, Mortimer Offner from Compton Mackenzie's novel

 
 
 
Released: 1935
   
Genre: DRAMA
ADVENTURE
COMEDY
PANNED
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: BW
   
Length: 94
 
 


 
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A story that's hard to believe. Dubious entertainment for the public.

(Variety)

A sprawling and ineffective essay in dramatic chaos.

(Richard Watts Jr, New York Herald Tribune)

A tragic waste of time and screen talent.

(Eileen Creelman, New York Sun)

[Hepburn's] latest picture comes at the end of an indifferent series and crowns it with mediocrity. It is undistinguished, unclear, and ill-mannered. I profess no great love for [the original story] but it was never as footling as the work the studios have made from it... Some people would call it picaresque. Personally I'd call it plain bad and go home and play marbles.

(Observer)

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