Better Late Than Never (film)

A Grandpa Hazzard ( Original title: Better Late Than Never ) is a British comedy film directed by Bryan Forbes, who also wrote the screenplay, from 1983 and starring David Niven and Art Carney. . The original novel written Gwen Davis.

Action

Bridget is the 10 -year-old orphaned daughter of a wealthy couple. Your now deceased grandmother left her the message that either Nick Cartland or failed Photographer Charley Dunbar is her grandfather. Bridget is now to decide who should be their guardian. For Nick and Charley the offer is particularly attractive because the annual income of the guardian is to get a quarter million dollars. So now trying to convince her granddaughter of who is the better for her grandfather Nick and Charley.

Background

Bryan Forbes offered the role of Charley Dunbar first to William Holden, but issued a rejection of the project due to low salary. In his book published in 1993 Forbes wrote that Holden would probably have remained in the case of its involvement in the film alive longer.

The screenplay for the film wrote Forbes to a presentation by the author Gwen Davis. The film was shot mainly in the south of France in the Alpes - Maritimes, so among other things, in Antibes. The studio recordings took place in Nice in the Studios de la Victorine.

David Niven embodied in the film's penultimate film role, in the year of publication, 1983, he succumbed to his ALS.

Criticism

" Comedy in front of the mundane backdrop of the French Riviera at Nice. "

" Gorgeous colors, still sad. "

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