Cinema: Whirlwind Tour

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT

Directed by GEORGE CUKOR Screenplay by JAY PRESSON ALLEN

and HUGH WHEELER

Some movies released at holiday time are like small children in a department store: easily lost in the Christmas crush. Such is the case with Travels With My Aunt, a fragile, beguiling and elegant entertainment released at year's end, when it tended to be drowned out in the general bustle. Its charms look now to be considerable.

The movie concerns the adventures and misadventures of Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) and his Aunt Augusta (Maggie Smith), an extravagantly and endearingly daffy trafficker in improbable intrigues who has succeeded in dealing...

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