Word: sulton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unemployed, the letdown we feel is the characteristic failure of. Hollywood comedies about social problems. Throughout the film. Powell describes the injustice of a system which permits the callous extravagance of the society families he serves as butler, yet when the smoke clears the flowing champagne on Sulton Place drowns the social' criticism which gave the film its force. In the late Vittorio De Sica's final film. A Brief Vacation, we experience a similar tantalizing disappointment, as the director offers sentimental solutions which fail to engage the problems he presents so sharply, the complex plight of working women...