Aunt Clara's inheritance

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Movie
German title Aunt Clara's inheritance
Original title Aunt Clara
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1954
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Anthony Kimmins
script Kenneth Horne
production Colin Lesslie ,
Anthony Kimmins
music Benjamin Frankel
camera CM Pennington-Richards
cut Gerald Turney Smith
occupation

The Inheritance of Aunt Clara (original title Aunt Clara ) is a British comedy film from 1954 , which is based on the novel Aunt Clara by the author Noel Streatfeild .

action

Henry Martin is Simon Hilton's servant. At the beginning of the film, Henry tries to protect his master from an unexploded bomb. Simon Hilton is an elderly man who regularly celebrates his birthday with his relatives. Only his niece Clara, who is also no longer young, regularly evades these celebrations. Simon is the owner of a disreputable pub, a breed of greyhounds, an illegal gambling booth, a house with five slightly older women in the light trade and an illegitimate daughter.

Simon dies shortly after his 80th birthday. At the reading of the will, the attorney announced that the illegitimate daughter Julie Mason would receive a pension of £ 20 a month until the end of her life. His niece Clara, who has spent more time with other people than with her family, should have the rest of it. It is tied to the inheritance that Clara takes care of the pub, the dog breeding, the stall, Gladys Smith and her four ladies and Julie Mason.

Clara realizes the pub's secret, quickly becomes friends with the greyhounds, meets Julie, who has a relationship with the lawyer, and is arrested by the police at the booth with the fraudulent gambling. When the trainer of the greyhound breed tries to cheat in order to impress Clara, she sabotages this attempt. The trainer and Henry lose all their money in the planned cheat, while Clara wins. Later she gives her winnings to Henry. On a charity evening, Clara tries to raise money for a children's vacation on the beach by playing the piano and seeing children singing and dancing. That evening is a fiasco, until Henry opens the stage and the operator of the fraudulent gambling is there and encourages people to play.

Clara, realizing that her health is not going well, goes to the house where Gladys Smith and her four women live. She reveals that she wanted to get to know the ladies. Back at home, she goes to bed. In a final dream, Clara sees everything that she has put in order according to her uncle's will and her own will.

In the following scene you can see Henry with a black armband in the pub. The lawyer reveals to him that Glady Smith and the four women have inherited the house they live in and money that should last until the end of their lives. Henry himself inherits the pub.

Reviews

tvguide.com called the comedy: “A charming film with cameos from well-known British comics.” Britmovie described the film “which, despite its undisputed charm, does not catch fire. Margaret Rutherford plays the leading role of the same name, but for once her dotty spying style is too low and the film contains a suffocating melancholy tone that only dissolves at the end of the film ”. The film service came to the rating: "Nice little comedy about human weaknesses and human kindness."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recession at tvguide.com, accessed March 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ fails to catch fire despite its undoubted charm. Margaret Rutherford plays the eponymous lead but for once her dotty spinster persona is understated and the film contains a suffocating melancholic tone that only resolves itself at the films moving closure at Britmovie.co.uk
  3. ^ The inheritance of Aunt Clara at filmdienst.de, accessed on March 4, 2019.