I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

A Major Disappointment

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Ultra high-gloss soap opera with such a great cast it's difficult to criticize it. Elizabeth Taylor is trying to leave tycoon husband Richard Burton for gigolo Louis Jourdan. They're fogged in at a London airport along with Orson Welles, Margaret Rutherford, Elsa Martinelli, Rod Taylor & Maggie Smith. Welles is a movie producer, Taylor is a businessman in trouble and Dame Rutherford is in financial straits. All gets resolved by the time the fog lifts. Rutherford won an Oscar and deserved it...she's a hoot. Burton & Taylor have genuine chemistry and Welles has a field day clearly goofing on all the bombastic movie types who gave him grief during his career. The production design, which is dynamite, is by William Kellner and there's an appropriately dramatic score by Miklós Rózsa. Director Anthony Asquith puts together a classy production, assisted greatly by a fine Terrence Rattigan screenplay.

British Heathrow Airport's jet set have various reasons for high-tailing it to New York, but "The V.I.P.s" are grounded by London's notorious fog. The prospective travelers are first offered a free meal, then are put up in a hotel for the evening. Everything looks first class for the era, which benefits beautifully-wigged star Elizabeth Taylor (as Frances), who is leaving husband Richard Burton (as Paul Andros) for handsome Louis Jourdan (as Marc Champselle). They are the main story in the "Grand Hotel" (1932)-styled ensemble. Of the others, you'll have no trouble enjoying Margaret Rutherford steal not only her scenes, but the entire movie. Orson Welles never stood a chance. With less fanfare (than Liz and Dick), Rod Taylor and Maggie Smith have a good subplot.****** The V.I.P.s (9/1/63) Anthony Asquith ~ Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Margaret Rutherford, Louis Jourdan

I saw this back during the 1980's and it's OK. "The VIP's" was written by the distinguished British playwright Terence Rattigan, whose works include "Separate Tables." It's a multi-character programmer about various wealthy people who are stranded by fog at an airport while their lives are at a crisis point of one kind or another. The big story is the marital discord of a powerful businessman and his pampered but neglected wife, played by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Their real-life affair and subsequent marriage had made front-page news around the world at the time of this film, and it was clearly made with the intent of capitalizing on their notoriety. There are other characters with problems, played by Orson Wells, Margaret Rutherford (who won an Oscar), Elsa Martinelli, Maggie Smith, and Rod Taylor, but that was just filler material. The result is a glamorous but routine film with nothing going on that you wouldn't see in an episode of "Dallas" or "Dynasty," but it's still easy to watch and the time passes painlessly.

Rattigan and Asquith were old chums whose respective styles fitted like well - worn slippers.Both were terribly English and never quite at home with "foreign" characters,keen and knowledgeable observers of the British Class System with a marked preference for those who inhabited its upper echelons. Asquith knew how to make movies his audience would flock to see and Rattigan wrote plays mainly about people from Cheltenham for people from Cheltenham.Thus,comfortably ensconced together,they laboured and came forth with "The V.I.P.s" a sumptuously silly and irresistible old - fashioned star - studded Big Picture to which - forty six years on,time has added its patina of loss and regret to the extent that it now seems much better than it did in 1963. Although basically the camera seems happy merely to point at the Beautiful People and let them talk,Asquith's direction is subtle enough to persuade us that the personal difficulties experienced by the rich and famous stranded at Heathrow are important enough to engage our sympathy. Everybody overacts gloriously - indeed the whole thing is like a feature - length episode of "Dynasty" seen through the wrong end of time's telescope - and the whole effect is similar to overdosing on comfort food. All one's critical senses are overwhelmed by the positive plethora of pulling - power.These are the A - Lister's A List,believe me. Campy,frothy and entirely unbelievable it may be,but by golly it's entertaining and I was happy to pay my 3/9 in 1963 and I'm even happier to see it on TV today. With the arrival of the Swinging Sixties Big Pictures like "The V.I.P.s" became soooo last year sweetie,craftsmen like Asquith and Rattigan were mocked and a media - induced frenzy saw new heroes created and the tearing up of rule books that these new heroes had never had the intelligence to understand in the first place. With that in mind,perhaps "The V.I.P.s" should be regarded as the last picture show of the 1950s.I'm pretty sure Rattigan and Asquith would be happy with that.