Millionairess
by Anthony Asquith
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Actor: Alastair Sim, Dennis Price, Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De SicaDirector: Anthony Asquith
Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard
Editor: Anthony Harvey
Producer: Dimitri De Grunwald
Producer: Pierre Rouve
Writer: George Bernard Shaw
Writer: Riccardo Aragno
Writer: Wolf Mankowitz
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 1997-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Studio: Fox Lorber
VHS Movie Reviews of Millionairess
Movie Review: not in cinemaScope but in Pan and scan
Summary: 1 Stars
The Dvd does not offer the CinemaScope version .It,s like flat Coca colaMovie Review: Oh, The Clothes!
Summary: 3 Stars
As a movie, it's not great. Amusing to watch once on late night tv but that's it. I would give it 2 stars - one for Sophia who's fabulous and the other because it is mildly funny. But I gave it three and suggest you buy it for one reason only: The Clothes.
OH Those GORGEOUS Clothes! Yes there are many historical films out there with tremendous costuming (Anna and the King, GWTW, The Ten Commandments, etc.) but for a non-historical film showing contemporary clothing this is simply the best. Don't get me wrong, I am awed by Adrian, and enjoy watching Edith Head's designs come alive on screen but this is the best film for costuming and clothing EVER.
Yes, yes it's not a reason for a film buff to buy it. But if you're studying fashion design, or are a clothing historian or just want to kick back one night and fill your head with scrumptious eye candy, this is it.
Movie Review: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth(and Sophia)
Summary: 4 Stars
There are obvious flaws in this film. For starters, it suffers from extreme staginess. It's socialist message is not so much delivered but bludgeoned home. I give this film a pass because of the appealing performances by the film's leads, Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren. Sellers gives a terrific low-key turn as the sweet humanistic doctor. Loren is earthy yet manages to humanize the spoiled heiress she plays. As written, her character comes of as unappealing but Loren manages to engender empathy. Good supporting cast that includes Alistair Sim as Loren's barrister, Vittorio De Sica as a sweat shop owner, and Dennis Price("Kind Hearts and Coronets") as Loren's psychiatrist. Stanley Kubrick fans should note the presence of Miriam Karlin(the catwoman in "A Clockwork Orange") as De Sica's wife. Movie Review: the horror of pan and scan
Summary: 1 Stars
Too bad this is pan and scan .The film is utterly charming but the pan and scan detracts from everything particularly the sets and of course the actors .A letterboxed edition is badly needed .Surprising from the previously reliable Fox Lorber .I bought this without checking .Too bad .Movie Review: Better than three stars
Summary: 4 Stars
Nobody seems to have reviewed this film for the last 5 years, so here goes. This play is a curious hybrid: a blunt political and satirical message promoted via haute couture, the uniquely gorgeous Loren, and the hyper-talented Peter Sellers. There are also a large number of very able English character actors, as well as the charismatic Vittorio de Sica. I thought the role of Corelli, played by someone called Charles Hill, was actually played by Alfred Marks --- perhaps he used an alias. Derek Nimmo popped up, uncredited. It IS slow-paced, as one reviewer has remarked, but it does hold the interest, as another also noted. Difficult to say why. It's very stagy. In fact, I'm virtually certain it's based on a play by George Bernard Shaw, hence the political paradoxes. Did Mankowitz supply the extra dollop of Marxism? I thought it was also well-known that Sellers and Loren ignited like glue on the set; and perhaps this gives it such a strong undercurrent of non-explicit sensuality, intensifying the voyeuristic sensation. Well, all that equipment really is a treat. The ending is flat and very weak: it just fizzles out into nothing much, as though the script-writer simply couldn't think of a neat way of wrapping up the loose threads. Not exactly four-star, but better than Saving Private Ryan.
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