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{{Short description|1968 British film by Joseph McGrath}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name = 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia
| image = 30-is-a-dangerous-age-cynthia-movie-poster-1968.jpg
| director = [[Joseph McGrath (film director)|Joseph McGrath]]
| producer = [[Walter Shenson]]
| writer = Dudley Moore <br /> Joseph McGrath <br /> [[John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]]
| starring = [[Dudley Moore]]
| music = Dudley Moore
| cinematography = [[Billy Williams (cinematographer)|Billy Williams]]
| editing = Bill Blunden
| studio = Walter Shenson Productions
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1968|3|4|df=y}}
| runtime = 86 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
'''''30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia''''' (also known as '''''Thirty Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia''''') is a 1968 British [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Joseph McGrath (film director)|Joseph McGrath]] and starring [[Dudley Moore]], [[Eddie Foy Jr.|Eddie Foy, Jr]]. and [[Suzy Kendall]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leonard Maltin|author-link=Leonard Maltin|title=[[Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide]]|publisher=Plume, 1994}}</ref>

==Plot ==
[[London]] jazz pianist and aspiring composer Rupert Street is soon to turn 30 and fears reaching that age without having accomplished anything. To avoid this, he sets himself goals to marry a woman and write a musical. He meets the gorgeous but taken Louise, a fellow boarder, and pursues her in his goofy and inept manner. A fight with competing suitor Paul leaves Rupert with his right arm in a cast and unable to play the piano.

To avoid further distractions, Rupert travels to [[Dublin]], where he finds success composing the musical, and he returns to London triumphant. However, his other goal is in jeopardy, as Louise has left for [[Birmingham]] with Paul.

In order to sign Rupert to a contract, the production's major investor forces his agent to send [[Private investigator|private eye]] Herbert Greenslade to Birmingham to find Louise. Reunited with Louise on his birthday, Rupert whisks her back to London to be married.

==Cast==
* [[Dudley Moore]] as Rupert Street
* [[Eddie Foy, Jr.]] as Oscar
* [[Suzy Kendall]] as Louise Hammond
* [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]] as Herbert Greenslade
* [[Duncan Macrae (actor)|Duncan Macrae]] as Jock McCue
* [[Patricia Routledge]] as Mrs. Woolley
* [[Peter Bayliss]] as Victor
* [[John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]] as Honorable Gavin Hopton
* [[Harry Towb]] as Mr. Woolley
* [[Jonathan Routh]] as Captain Gore-Taylor
* Ted Dicks, Jr. as Horst Cohen
* [[Nicky Henson]] as Paul
* [[Clive Dunn]] as doctor
* [[Frank Thornton]] as registrar
* [[Derek Farr]] as TV announcer
* [[Micheál MacLiammóir]] as Irish storyteller

== Reception ==
In a contemporary review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Renata Adler]] wrote: "The problem with the movie itself is that, like almost all of contemporary comedy, it has something sophomoric about it—one foot always behind in the university. This seems to stem from a sense in the movie and elsewhere that this particular generation of satirists has to make itself up out of whole cloth, that there are no useful precedents. ... What happens with the film—funny bits and pieces done really quite brilliantly—is that it is not quite worked through. There is no sense that anyone has made a completely, unironically committed effort to work clear through it. In this respect it is almost about what it is: fun, in under the wire of a deadline for talented young people to sustain an impression of promise, but not yet a completed work that anyone is exactly prepared to stand behind.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Adler |first=Renata |date=1968-03-05 |title=The Screen: Mod Love and Courtship |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=34}}</ref>

''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Dudley Moore's exceptional gifts as a comedian and a musician are poorly served by the frantic direction of Joseph McGrath's film; and the leaden script—assembled rather than written by Moore, the director and John Wells—is little more than a collection of mildly diverting television sketches bound together by the thinnest of romantic plots. The constant injection of burlesque fantasy—Moore appearing as [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] and [[Rudolph Valentino|Valentino]] amongst others—only highlights the paucity of the basic material, while Moore's endless repertoire of funny voices and facial contortions proves no substitute for a closely timed comic performance. Similarly, the repeated pans, wipes, jump cuts and bizarre montages that mark McGrath's direction prove no substitute for genuine style but merely underline the inadequacies of the script. Like Dudley Moore, most of the highly talented cast deserve something better than this."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1968 |title=30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826589/16A84940EFE2407APQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=35 |issue=408 |pages=184 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

[[Leslie Halliwell]] said: "Mild star vehicle for a very mild star, basically a few thin sketches, frantically overdirected."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Halliwell |first=Leslie |title=Halliwell's Film Guide |publisher=Paladin |year=1989 |isbn=0586088946 |edition=7th |location=London |pages=1016}}</ref>

''The [[Radio Times]] Guide to Films'' gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "This is one of those 1960s oddities, with everyone rushing around being breezily neurotic as nightclub musician Dudley Moore panics at the thought of imminently turning 30. Moore basically plays himself, even fronting his real-life jazz trio, and it works enjoyably enough, with Suzy Kendall suitably kooky and charming as the girl he chases. Not a movie that has aged with any dignity, but there are considerably worse examples of 'swinging' celluloid than this."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]] |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edition=18th |location=London |pages=928}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0062625}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|30_is_a_dangerous_age_cynthia}}
{{Joseph McGrath (director)}}

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