Separate Tables DVD

Separate Tables
Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside hotel. Among the guests are an alleged war hero (David Niven), a timid spinster (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), and a divorced couple (Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth) trying to re-ignite their romance despite the presence of his mistress (Wendy Hiller). All of the characters' lives become intertwined in the course of the film as the story examines love affairs and secrets. Separate Tables is a fine, textured drama, filled with terrific performances and was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Deborah Kerr), Best Actor (David Niven), Best Supporting Actress (Wendy Hiller), Best Screenplay From Another Medium, Best Cinematography and Best Music. Niven and Hiller won Oscars for the film. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide

Cast Rita Hayworth as Ann Shankland Deborah Kerr as Sybil Railton-Bell David Niven as Maj. Pollack Wendy Hiller as Miss Pat Cooper Burt Lancaster as John Malcolm Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Railton-Bell Cathleen Nesbitt as Lady Matheson Felix Aylmer as Mr. Fowler Rod Taylor as Charles Audrey Dalton as Jean May Hallatt as Miss Meacham Priscilla Morgan as Doreen Hilda Plowright as Mabel

Crew Edward Carrere - Art Director Mary Grant - Costume Designer Edith Head - Costume Designer Delbert Mann - Director Charles Ennis - Editor Marjorie Fowler - Editor David Raksin - Composer (Music Score) Harold Adamson - Songwriter Harry Waarren - Songwriter Frank Prehoda - Makeup Harry Maret - Makeup Harry Horner - Production Designer Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer Harold Hecht - Producer Edward Boyle - Set Designer Fred Lau - Sound/Sound Designer John Gay - Screenwriter Terence Rattigan - Screenwriter Terence Rattigan - Play Author

Separate Tables
Adapted by John Gay and Terence Rattigan from Rattigan's play and produced by star Burt Lancaster's independent company, Delbert Mann's Separate Tables (1958) showcased the acting talents of its British-American cast in a character study of isolated individuals making tentative connections in a seaside hotel. True to Lancaster and long time producing partner Harold Hecht's preference for off beat material, Separate Tables's then-frank exploration of repression and loneliness involves sexual frigidity, perversion, jealousy, domestic violence and divorce, with the confines of the hotel enhancing the characters' emotional claustrophobia. As an alcoholic writer and his aging beauty ex-wife, Lancaster and Rita Hayworth play against glamorous, potent type; David Niven and Deborah Kerr reveal the considerable turmoil beneath the prim surfaces of a blowhard retired military man and a mother-dominated spinster. More a mature succès d'estime than a popular hit, Separate Tables nevertheless received seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Screenplay and Actress for Kerr. Wendy Hiller won the Best Supporting Actress statuette for her resigned hotel manager and Niven added a Best Actor prize to his award from the New York Film Critics. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 

Charles B. Lang: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Black and White Cinematography (nominated) David Niven: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Actor (winner) David Niven: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (winner) David Niven: New York Film Critics Circle, Best Actor (winner) David Raksin: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Drama or Comedy Score (nominated) Deborah Kerr: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Actress (nominated) Deborah Kerr: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (nominated) Delbert Mann: Golden Globe, Best Director (nominated) John Gay: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated) Terence Rattigan: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated) Wendy Hiller: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Supporting Actress (winner) Wendy Hiller: Golden Globe, Best Supporting Actress (nominated)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Picture (nominated) Golden Globe, Best Picture - Drama (nominated) National Board of Review, Best Picture (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, Spanish, French Sound Processing: 5.1: 5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects 1: PCM mono Additional Features: Audio commentary by director Delbert Mann Original theatrical trailer English: mono French: mono Spanish: mono French & Spanish language subtitles DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1: Vistavision MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 100 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 0. Scene Selections 1. Main Title/Separate Tables [:09] 2. The Major & Sybil [2:03] 3. "Studying Anatomy" [7:12] 4. "A New Arrival" [2:34] 5. Opening a 5-year Scar [7:31] 6. Some Major Gossip [9:35] 7. Meeting of the Minds [13:22] 8. Taming a Savage Love [9:21] 9. "Does She Know ?" [2:42] 10. A Failed Seduction [5:10] 11. "Birds of a Feather" [3:27] 12. Words of Consolation [4:09] 13. "She Needs You!" [10:42] 14. "Cherry Bye" [3:13] 15. "Alone in a Crowd" [5:51] 16. Crossing the Barrier [2:27]