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Cluny Brown

Comedy Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also a bit of a plumber. Adam and Cluny become friends. After several misunderstandings between the Carmel's son, his bride-to-be and Adam, the writer decides to leave. Realising that she loves Adam, Cluny follows him to the station, where she accepts his offer of marriage.  [+]
Media Author Review
United States
Variety
"Whammo entertainment." 
United States
Time Out
"This is as good as movies get." 
United States
The New York Times
"Let is be noted at the outset that Ernst Lubitsch has come up with a delectable and sprightly lampoon in Cluny Brown."
United States
Chicago Reader
"This late, delicious comedy of manners by Ernst Lubitsch is a notch below his best, but the character acting is so good one hardly notices." 
United Kingdom
Radio Times
"This somewhat outmoded satirical souffl on British upper-class mores is nonetheless diverting."
United States
The New Yorker
"Ernst Lubitsch's last completed film, from 1946, looks back to the prewar year of 1938 to take stock of the postwar world and to show how it got that way."
United States
TV Guide
"The last film with the fabled 'Lubitsch touch' contains moments of satire that raise it to classic status, as Lubitsch, Hoffenstein and Reinhardt take shots at upper-class England with deadly aim."
United States
Slant
"What is the famed 'Lubitsch touch' if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?" 
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