This, alas, has not aged at all well and I'm guessing it will only attract either Leigh or Harrison completists. I was slightly bemused to find that several people who have reviewed it here seem to think that the original German playwright, Bruno Frank, wrote it as an anti-Hitler piece. I don't know much about European politics either then or now but I do know that Bruno Frank wrote Storm In a Water-Glass in 1931, whilst Hitler did not become Chancellor until 1933. As usual with films of that period the director(s) have been cavalier with facts: The setting is a small, remote community in Scotland, the sort of place where people are born and live all their lives but that doesn't prevent Victor Saville casting Sarah Allgood as the catalyst and there is, of course, nothing wrong with that, EXCEPT that Allgood, supposedly a lifelong resident of this small Scottish community, makes no attempt to suppress, or even tone down the 'stage' Oirish accent that served her so well in every film she made (presumably she was stricken with the same ailment that prevented Sean Connery from losing his Scottish accent, even when playing an Irishman). For good measure we also get Mervyn Johns, complete with his own Welsh accent. Neither of the two leads - Vivien Leigh/Rex Harrison - are required to act or indeed do anything except look a) beautiful and b) bemused, but it does become a tad more bearable in the closing courtroom stages.
Review of Storm in a Teacup
