The Upturned Glass
1947
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Reviews 72% Audience Score 50+ Ratings A pregnant college student named Sapphire Robbins (Yvonne Buckingham) is murdered in London's Hampstead Heath. When police superintendent Robert Hazard ...
- Mystery & Thriller
Mar 27, 2013 · Gail, the feisty oldest ( Deborah Mailman of "Rabbit-Proof Fence"), the ambitious Julie (pop singer Jessica Mauboy) and the flirty Cynthia ( Miranda Tapsell) enter a local competition singing American country music. Braving the bigotry of the audience, they sing a Merle Haggard song.
Excellent film, directed by Basil Dearden, who directed Dead of Night and Victim, two marvelous movies. Sapphire takes place in the '50s - the film was released in 1959 - in England. A young woman is found dead in a park. It turns out her name is Sapphire Robbins, and she was engaged to a young man, David Harris (Paul Massie).
Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. A progressive film for its time, [4] it focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies , and explores the "underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people" about those of ...
Mar 22, 2013 · 91% Tomatometer 140 Reviews 76% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings A would-be music promoter (Chris O'Dowd) sees something special in a girl group of four Australian singers and takes them to Vietnam...
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- Musical, Comedy, Biography, Drama
- PG-13
Cast and Crew. Sapphire. Find on IMDB. Find on Wikipedia. Reviews. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) Roger Ebert. Writer (novel) Popular reviews.
Interesting true story has good music, not enough soul. Read Common Sense Media's The Sapphires review, age rating, and parents guide.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Jay Jacobs The Reporter. A thoroughly engrossing and highly plausible entertainment -- and an unusually trenchant examination of the psychology of...
Good times rule in Wayne Blair’s soulful adaptation. CANNES FILM FESTIVAL. : Sunshiny effervescence dominates Wayne Blair's '60s-set parable of self-determination, The Sapphires – a real-life tale of a group of soul sisters (and their cousin) who sang their way from an outback mission to an entertainment tour of duty during the Vietnam War.
Mar 28, 2013 · ‘The Sapphires’ movie review. By Jen Chaney. March 28, 2013 at 5:08 p.m. EDT. Upon discovering the Sapphires, manager Dave Lovelace (Chris O’Dowd), left, has the group ditch its country-western...
