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Separate Tables Details

1958

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Starring	Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr
Director	Delbert Mann
Genres	Drama

Separate Tables

Life in an English bed and breakfast where the eccentric guests all have one common trait – loneliness. There's Major Pollack who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell, a shy, neurotic old maid who lacks the courage to break away from her domineering mother. John Malcolm, a disenchanted writer who drowns his bitterness in a pool of alcohol; and Ann Shankland, whose narcissism masks a deep fear of growing old alone and unloved. In one emotional evening, these four emotional misfits will bare their innermost secrets… and change each others' lives forever.

Starring	Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller
Director	Delbert Mann
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English, German
Subtitles	DVD: Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Spanish
Released	Production year: 1958 To Rent: DVD: 11 Jul 2005

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- The genteel melodramas seem less convincing on the Hollywood screen than they did on the London stage, but the handling is thoroughly professional.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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  Timeless classic
  
  If ever a film is held up by acting ability alone this is it, simply superb.
  
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  "DESPERATE TABLES"
  
  Separate Tables is about LONELINESS and the Director has failed monumentally to convey the pathos of the storyl The quality of the acting in Rattigan's ... read more »
  
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  It's all about the actors' performances
  
  A simple enough tale, in a single location. Even the camera doesn't move about much. So creates a study where the actors performances are the only thing to ... read more »
  
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  - 07 Nov 2010 at 15:39
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  Separate Tables
  
  David Niven won his Oscar for this film and deservedly so. This is a film about a long-departed world, where many people lived lonely and separate lives in ... read more »
  
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  Life in an English bed and breakfast where the eccentric guests all have one common trait – loneliness. There's Major Pollack who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell, a shy, neurotic old maid who lacks the courage to break away from her domineering mother. John ...