
La Cérémonie
1995


“CECIL B DE MILLE'S SUBLIME MIRROR OF LIFE”
25 votes
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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Cecil B. DeMilleWriters
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Sir J.M. Barrie was still very much alive and kicking when this well crafted adaptation of his "Admirable Crichton" (1902) story was made and I wonder if he ever saw it... It is the story of the "Earl of Loam" (Theodore Roberts) who decides to take his entirely spoiled, aristocratic family on his yacht for a cruise on the South Seas. It's up to the butler "Crichton" (Thomas Meighan) to organise it all before the mollycoddled bunch all set sail... It's all, well, plain sailing until their boat runs aground on a desert island and their whole, nicely ordered, lives are thrown asunder... In order…
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