Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Simon & Laura + intro
- Director
- Muriel Box
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 87 mins
It’s 1955 and there’s just the one TV channel to choose from: the BBC. Theatrical couple Simon (Peter Finch) and Laura Foster (Kay Kendall) agree to revive their ailing careers by starring in a new TV show following the lives of a happily married couple. Alas, bickering Simon and Laura are far from happily married. Adapted from a stage play and directed by Muriel Box – one of the leading female filmmakers of the 1950s, who’s largely forgotten today – this sharp, insightful comedy antiticpated the rise of reality TV.
https://youtu.be/Dl8F_rMiH9c
Screened in the Cinema Innovators strand of Cinema Rediscovered, Simon and Laura is introduced by film and media archivist and historian Rosie Cook.
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