Classville.('Gosford Park')

At the beginning of Robert Altman's brilliant comedy "Gosford Park," two Rolls-Royces, both heading for a weekend shooting party in the country, stop on a narrow road. The weather is vile in the usual English way -- cold, gray, and wet -- and the first car stops because its owner, Constance, Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), would like to warm herself but cannot open her thermos. Her new maid, Mary (Kelly Macdonald), is forced to come around from the front seat to open it for her. The second car, pulling up alongside, is driven by one Morris Weissman (Bob Balaban), of Hollywood, a producer of Charlie Chan movies. Next to him sits the handsome Ivor Novello (Jeremy ...