In Northern England, Billy Fisher lives with his parents and ailing elderly grandmother, is secretly engaged to two women both of whom he tries hard to avoid, and works as a clerk for an undertaker from whose office he has pilfered a large sum of money he was supposed to use to mail calendars to […]

While my mother loved Billy Wilder’s Sabrina (1954) most of all, another fifties comedy she adored was the British Genevieve, written by American expatriate William Rose and directed by South African-born Henry Cornelius. Charming, funny, poised and, ultimately, gently poignant, this classic about two friends who are annual rivals in their antique cars in the […]