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...and the movie is like a bath tub - intriguing in the beginning, then all downhill to outright boring and nearly jow-lockingly trivial and corny, with nothing to make you put your book aside, then recovering some.Something like this is hard to recommend, unless you really dig the Americana and have to plug that little hole, patch that missing spot on the quilt.
Even thngs like David Niven's presence fail to elevate it above the soap opera level, until, that is, Mary Astor enters the scene... she makes some sense, never mind the cliche ex-patriat character, as she sparkles next to the - properly - boring and shapeless Fran (Ruth Chatterton).
The film allows you to look into the 1930's mentality in the US... that is - the way Hollywood saw it. There is as much connection to real life in it as between Coca-Cola and Chateau Lafite, but still as a piece of history it has some merit.
If I had to keep just one Wyler's film, that would be the Roman Holiday, no ifs of buts.
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You didn't mention Walter Huston's acting which many considered the high point of the movie.
The book upon which it is based, of course, is by Sinclair Lewis, one of the finest novelists of his generation. I especially liked "Arrowsmith" and "Main Street."
Is it possible you don't have a "feel" for American history and the context of this work?
I know he received the Oscar, but frankly, I was not too grabbed by his acting. But Maria Ouspenskaya really put a great, albeit short, show, and what a remarkably interesting biography she had!
as a dated little piece of fluff...
I'd rate these WW films highly, though in no particular order:
The Big Country
The Little Foxes
The Letter
Mrs. Miniver
Ben Hur (I know, I know, but on the really big screen it is damned good entertainment on a massive scale never to re replicated in these days of computer bs)
Best Years of Our Lives
Desperate Hours
Wuthering Heights
The Collector.
Not bad, not bad...
What a delightful comedy that one is!
I wanted to be Audrey Hepburn, living in beautiful Paris with Hugh Griffith as my roguish papa and the devastatingly sexy Peter O'Toole for my bedmate.I think I was all of 11 at the time.
Nevertheless, I was thrilled when it came out on DVD.
To be locked in a tiny space with Audrey... don't even mention this to Patrick!Great fun movie, with script sparkling with wit in several spots, and two goregous leads... ah, yes, and who could forget that papa!
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though I love others as well....
David Niven could never be considerate as a good actor, a man of charmes yes, but no more.
You fail to mention that the ever to be true man / woman tragedy is well described.
As for the rest I would not want to add one more word.
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