Separate Tables (Clifton Productions; United Artists) is about as skillful a job as could possibly be done of turning a well-made play into a well-made movie.
It was not an easy bit of rewriting. For one thing, Playwright Terence Rattigan's well-made play is actually two well-made plays, each one about an hour long; and Scriptwriter Terence Rattigan, with the collaboration of John Gay, had no real choice but to combine them by a sort of gambler's shuffle—first a scene from one, then a scene from the other—that could scarcely fail to provide some notable...