SEPARATE TABLES (1958) * If you're going to rely entirely on talking, the dialogues have to be a helluva lot better than this! A cast of weak and frightened characters, the only one of whom is interesting in the slightest is Rita Hayworth. And she's not particularly interesting either. I find it difficult to believe that anyone was ever taken in by such drivel: bored neo-Victorians bitching about the base morality of a David Niven that sits down next to ladies in the cinema and nudges them. People too terrified to utter the word "sex," people who eat haddock for breakfast. For icing on the cake the alleged film in question demonstrates the inherent pratfalls of removing a play from the theatre and putting it on film without revision-it supposedly takes place in Bournemouth and there's not a single shot of the beach.
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