Aside from the pleasure of seeing Valerie Hobson in one of her Hollywood movies, August Weekend has little to recommend it. The other players led by Paul Harvey try hard, but make little impression on what is admittedly a rather boring excuse for a plot. As a dialog-bound comedy of manners, the film fails dismally because the script is just not witty and/or exciting enough to carry an audience for half an hour let alone 72 minutes. It's true too that, aside from Hobson, the other players simply don't have the charisma to enthrall an audience. And if viewers are simply not interested in the people of the play and don't really care what their troubles are and what happens to them, then the movie can only be regarded as a failure. Charles Lamont's deadly dull direction doesn't help either. Available on a very good Alpha DVD.
Review of August Weekend
