Travels With My Aunt

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Travels With My Aunt

PG

1972

1h 49m

Comedy

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At his mother's funeral, uptight banker Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets an eccentric woman claiming to be his aunt, Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith). After the ceremony, the two go to her apartment - where a gruesome package arrives containing a severed finger and a ransom note for the release of Augusta's former lover, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens). As they travel across Europe to the borders of Turkey and into North Africa, Henry and Augusta tangle with deception, authorities and death.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Sep 29, 2023

Travels With My Aunt seems to run down before it gets started.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 23, 2004

2.5/4

George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt is a whimsical romantic fantasy that works; which is to say, if you are not a fan of whimsical romantic fantasy, it's going to be too much for you.

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Judith Crist

Texas Monthly

Jun 11, 2020

You'll have a wonderful trip with Travels.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 28, 2008

C

One of George Cukor's last (and least impressive) pictures, this version of Graham Greene's eccentric comedy is thematically similar to Auntie Mame but suffers from Maggie Smith's overly stylized turn and lack of rapport with Alec McCowen as her nephew.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Jan 16, 2007

C

Dampened by a hammy over-theatrical performance by Maggie Smith, too much useless gab and too many contrived plot turns.

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nov 23, 2005

3/5

Agressive whimsey eventually wears out its welcome.

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 5, 2026

Travels With My Aunt is a 2.5 star Movie!

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jun 30, 2025

Unfunny in 1 hour and 49 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Russ G

@RT78760655 Feb 7, 2025

I couldn't get past the opening scene but judging by the overall score, my review wouldn't be any better if I had managed to slog through it.

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Mar 29, 2023

I have tried at least four times to watch this. I can never figure out what the hell is happening or follow anything. How did a potentially fun film, from a great source, become such a muddled bore?

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dave s

@RT68722908 May 5, 2021

George Cukor's Travels With My Aunt seemed dated even when I first saw it back in the 70s, shortly after its release, as many of the scenes seem to have the same cinematic sensibility of the films Cukor directed thirty years earlier. Now viewed almost fifty years later, it comes across as silly, unfocused and totally unnecessary…and still dated. The plot is more exhausting than entertaining, many of the scenes (and even shots within some scenes) are pointless and go nowhere, and the puzzling Oscar-nominated performance by Maggie Smith seems overly theatrical and a bit embarrassing. At least some of the scenery is nice, but that's about all that Travels With My Aunt has going for it.

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steve d

@RT35616104 Jul 17, 2020

A trip not worth taking even with Smith.

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Synopsis

At his mother's funeral, uptight banker Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets an eccentric woman claiming to be his aunt, Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith). After the ceremony, the two go to her apartment - where a gruesome package arrives containing a severed finger and a ransom note for the release of Augusta's former lover, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens). As they travel across Europe to the borders of Turkey and into North Africa, Henry and Augusta tangle with deception, authorities and death.

Director: George Cukor
Producer: Robert Fryer, James Cresson
Screenwriter: Graham Greene, Jay Presson Allen, Hugh Wheeler
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 17, 1972, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 1, 2012
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Mono

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