Three Men in a Boat

1956

Comedy / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 479 479

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Plot summary

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Director

Ken Annakin Photo
Ken Annakin

Top cast

Shirley Eaton Photo
Shirley Eaton as Sophie
Adrienne Corri Photo
Adrienne Corri as Clara
Laurence Harvey Photo
Laurence Harvey as George
Ernest Thesiger Photo
Ernest Thesiger as 3rd Old Gentleman
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836.69 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 31 min
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1.52 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TondaCoolwal 6 / 10

Could Have Been Better

When I saw this film advertised on Talking Pictures, I just had to watch it. I think I saw it as a child many years ago; but in the meantime I had read the book and wanted to compare the interpretation. To be honest, I didn't find the book that funny despite the opinion of many critics down the years. I had an interest because I'm from Walsall, Jerome K Jerome's home town (didn't his parents have any imagination!). Anyhow, as mentioned elsewhere, the film has little in common with the book. Some of the scenarios used e.g. the picnic, are related as happening to acquaintances rather than the main characters themselves. Having said that, the tin of pineapples scene was pretty faithfully rendered. So far as casting goes, I think they got it about right. I had no problems with Laurence Harvey as George, and thought he was an effective counter to David Tomlinson's bumbling and Jimmy Edward's bull-in-a-china shop approach. Although the slapstick episodes did become tedious.The females were of course window dressing. Jill Ireland played her vacant self, and Shirley Eaton was a bit too modern for the era. Particularly in the bath scene! Strangely, Lisa Gastoni was the only one who convinced (what happened to her?) Martita Hunt, never a beauty, but always a beautiful performance, gave us her usual character; the matriarch. And I wonder if she was ever in anything other than period costume dramas? The Hampton Court Maze scene was the best, with a host of British character actors running around wildly trying to get out. In all it wasn't a bad movie. Like the book, it sought to convey a picture of an idyllic England, long-since vanished. Although in reality, such a vision only ever existed for the privileged few. A true representation of the book would be difficult to reproduce, and probably wouldn't be half as interesting. Coincidentally, when I worked at a college some years ago, three students retraced the journey down the Thames in a boat one summer vac. Like in the film, it apparently rained a lot!
Reviewed by richardchatten 5 / 10

Tales from the Riverbank

The Victorian era seemed like the good old days in the 1950s, so the time was right for this glossy exercise in nostalgia. It has an agreeable score by John Addison and is surprisingly lavish with CinemaScope used to good effect when national treasures A. E. Matthews, Earnest Thesiger & Miles Malleson put in an appearance lined up across the screen.Shirley Eaton, Lisa Gastoni & Jill Ireland are perhaps a bit too modern as the young gentlemen's lady loves and Lawrence Harvey as George seems seriously out of place amidst the general levity; his presence in the cast being accounted for by the influential friend he had in high places at Romulus Films.
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