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The VIPs

2 Ratings: 2.0

A movie directed by Anthony Asquith

For elite passengers awaiting London-to-U.S. flights, takeoff can't occur soon enough. But then fog rolls in, grounding air traffic. Over the next fateful night, the jet-setters must face problems and not flee them. First-class stars book passage … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Drama Movies

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Richard Burton, Rod Taylor, Louis Jourdan

Director: Anthony Asquith

Genre: Drama

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review by KonaCat. February 01

Glitzy but forgettable

The London fog grounds several wealthy passengers who must spend the night in the airport. The unrelated stories involve a wife running off with her lover, a cheap movie mogul, a businessman on the brink of disaster, and an addled Duchess. Typical of the star-studded movies of its time, this one is all style and no substance. The writing is straight out of a soap opera and Liz Taylor really wallows in the suds. Her star-power can't hide bad acting and her breathy, whiny … more

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review by Byron_Kolln. December 29, 2009

posted in Movie Hype

"I know it is foolishly sentimental to want to sit next to the man that you are eloping with"

THE V.I.P.'s belongs to a genre of film that is now sadly almost extinct - the star-studded character epic. Playwright Terence Rattigan gave us one of the all-time classics with "Separate Tables"; and in 1963 he wrote the script for this most glamorous movie, quickly assembled as a vehicle for the red-hot couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at the height of "Cleopatra" mania. The story revolves around several high-profile travelers, stranded at Heathrow airport when … more

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