See How They run movie

I adored See How They Run. I love Sam Rockwell anyway, but giving the mystery set around The Mousetrap was a lovely touch. It felt like a proper Ealing comedy.

oh she is wonderful, and looks magnificent in her uniform. very dry and droll.

Wonderful, as always. Her sunny optimism contrasted with Rockwell's droll cynicism is a joy.

I assume because the real Ambassadors is tiny and the St Martin's isn't much bigger they had to essentially had to create a theatre using bits of other theatres for filming purposes. 

There is one reference which stood out which I thought was hilarious which is  

a good nod to The Real Inspector Hound - more nods than a backseat toy dachshund.

Ah, so it's the Old Vic on the posters? Lots of pillars.

St Martins is called the Ambassadors in the film, the theatre in which the Mousetrap first opened just to the left. I assume they used St Martins Lane and renamed it as the bright sign advertising the show is there (although not very 50s!).

The foyers of the Dominion are lush. Wish they’d used a more opulent auditorium than the Old Vic though.

Geeky bit…the set for the mousetrap as show in the film is not representative of the real show (the stairs are in the opposite side of the stage for example) and the designs are different. There’s also dialogue from the play spoken at times throughout the film, some of it is from the play, some definitely isn’t. Whilst Richard Attenborough and Shelia Simm (original leads in the show) are characters in the film, the remainder of the cast playing the small roles of the other characters in the Mousetrap bear little resemblance to the originals, but it doesn’t matter.

It’s a fun film, keep an eye for little fun bits such as the reference to Tom Stoppard.

I went to see this today. It is my first time in a cinema since the pandemic.

It is a lovely little film - very funny and self-referential (I did laugh out loud at various points), Saoirse Ronan is indeed wonderful in it (when isn’t she?), and so is Sam Rockwell (although I thought his accent was a a little all over the place). In fact, the whole cast is fantastic - a who’s who of (mostly) British talent. It also made me want to go and see ‘The Mousetrap’ (I have never seen it).

I don’t think I got all of the references, so I am looking forward to seeing it again, undoubtedly when it is streaming.

Anyone spot all the references in the dentist scene?

Do you mean the names of all the dentists whose names are shown next to the door buzzers when Saoirse Ronan rings them all because she doesn’t know which dentist Sam Rockwell (supposedly) went to? If so, I missed the references because they went by too fast. Care to share in a spoiler?

I only recognised one . I read that they’re all the name of dentist characters from other works of fiction.

Watching it now…do we know where the scenes set in the theatre were filmed. There was a tracking shot of someone walking around FOH that went on forever rather than the seven seconds one would think it would take to wander the corridors of the tiny Ambassadors.