Film · Fox · 1933
Pass it on
Cavalcade
55Watch it awake.
The losses are real, told from a comfortable staircase, not a soldier's picture.
The review
A London family and their servants, from the turn of the century through the Great War to the early thirties. Sons go. The Titanic takes someone. Best picture, still argued with King Kong and I'm No Angel for the year's money. A house can watch it. The losses reached me.
They are told from a comfortable staircase. A pageant, not a soldier's picture. The comfort never has to go where the sons go. I won't invent the ship or the fighting. If you sit together, ask whether the servants' years count as much as the family's, or whether those stairs stay the eyes of the film.
Journal
Keep Cavalcade in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Casablanca
68 instead of 55
Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is temperance: Feeling governed at the last minute.
The eight
- 5Industry
Servants keep the London house while the family lives the pageant.
- 8Household
A family and their servants; sons go, and the Titanic takes someone.
- 4Piety
The losses are real, and the staircase never has to refuse the pageant.
- 7Courage
Sons go to the Great War, a life the house would actually miss.
- 6Republic
One London house is tied to a country from the century's turn through war.
- 4Temperance
A pageant on a comfortable staircase keeps offering the next decade.
- 5Truth
The loss is real, and it is not told as a soldier's picture.
- 5Stewardship
After the war and the ship, the comfortable house is what still stands.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Cavalcade · 55IMDb
