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Word: alizarin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of the film is the annual Commemoration Run, from London to Brighton, of the British Veteran Car Club. The heroine is an alizarin-crimson 1904 Darracq named Genevieve, the hero an anonymous cadmium-yellow 1904 Spyker. The Darracq is the proud possession of a young man of moderate means (John Gregson). His wife (Dinah Sheridan) just goes along grimly for the ride. The Spyker belongs to a friend named Ambrose (Kenneth More), a frisky youth whose ambition it is "to combine the pleasures of the London-Brighton run with a really beautiful emotional experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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