Cary Grant and James Mason give their usual commanding performances.
Eva Marie Saint is absolutely smouldering. There were some decent action pieces, a few laughs and incredibly intimate (though not explicit) love scenes.
NB: The Blu-ray commentary by screenwriter Ernest Lehman is unbelievably boring and wanders far too far from the subject matter. He even answers questions or statements the listener isn't privy to.
It's good, but the thing that sticks in my mind (apart from the murder, the set-up of an old friend, the ruthless impersonation and a man's tragic guilt causing him to be sectioned). Is that two women died so a man didn't shit himself every time he was more than a foot off the ground.
Bernard Miles as a bad'n? Nooooooooooooo
Doris Day was good. Jimmy Stewart not so much
It is a farce, but only in the literal sense. It's quirky, but sadly it's more to be laughed at rather than with. Hitchcock's good sense of humour, often referred to by others, doesn't really work on the big screen which is a shame because he really did seem funny off it. The scenery of Vermont is beautiful and is very well replicated in the studio. All of the characters are potty and the premise is ridiculous.
One for completionists and fanboys only I think.
Four great turns by James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr and Thelma Ritter.
Special thanks goes to Georgine Darcy
PS: The Blu-ray commentary is a lot shit. He always references scenes well before they appear on screen.
Definitely a case of style over substance. It's also very Victorian in nature and the setting of late 40's Manhattan just doesn't mix very well.
Joan Chandler reminded me of Joan Greenwood so that's nice and I consider it a shame we never really saw much more of her after this.
It gets a point for being the only story in the 24 universe that doesn't have a traitorous piece of shit in it.
He was never gonna be a baddie - it's Cary Grant for god's sake.
Gets marked down immediately because it's got that nonce Mullard in it.
Gets marked up because Elaine Page is as cute a button.
It's still par for the course in British sex comedies though.
Funnier than Adventures Of A Taxi Drive.
Quintessential British sex comedy; famous faces you'd not normally associate with this type of movie, pretty girls, ugly blokes and double entendres. Another thing they nearly all have in common is their abject failure to raise even the slightest titter, or anything else for that matter.
Not the best and certainly not the worst. It's gets a point a piece for the actors, girls and double entendres, otherwise it's shit.
Fucking hell, Chloe's morphed into Mary the Punk from EastEnders.
Charles Logan is such a shifty little shit. Every time I see Gregory Itzin i reminisce about him as Dennis in The Nutt House. If memory serves me right, he played a shifty little shit that too. I think he always got his comeuppance though
Well that's to be expected.
It wouldn't be 24 if it didn't happen at least once every season.
I can't wait for it to happen in 24: Live Another Day.
Well that was shit.
The Secret Service retreated without proof of General Juma's claims and Agent Pierce had a lie down whilst the President's daughter tried to give the green light for the rescue (he was shot in the shoulder for gawd sake).
My opinion? They bring it upon themselves.
What the fuck was that? Does it still equate to jumping a single shark? Cos my money's on a school of them.
Thank fuck for that. One pain in the arse down, one to go.
Eurgh! A clip show.
Even taking into consideration that this contains some clips from movies I've yet to watch (they ain't the 24 movie boxset I've got); this is dreadful and let's not forget the narrator proffering pointless little snippets and "witticisms".
I expected some sort of biography given the title. What I watched was nothing short of dogshit.
Absolutely fucking dreadful.
I watched this after '... Meet Frankenstein'. Jeez, what a come down.
Probably the worst of all the '... Meet' movies.
Wow. This was amazing. It almost made me break my 'Nothing gets a 10/10' rule.
It has humour by the bellyful and almost enough Universal monsters to field a five-a-side team (the Mummy and the Creature From The Black Lagoon missed the team bus) .
Venus looked like a canny trip. Louisiana not so much.
There were some great sights gags in this and that transformation special effect at the end was amazing. I divn't kna how they did it in '51.
I thought that final chase scene was fantastic.
I would've liked a bit more Keystone Cops though.
I can't put into words how much I love this movie.
Why didn't I give it 10/10?
10 on here is 'Totally Ninja"; what kinda fucking shit is that? Consequently nothing gets a 10 or a 1 "Weak Sauce :(".
The final set of the travelogue trilogy.
An almost perfect mix of art and cuisine history. Perfect TV to sit back, relax and learn sommat.
The mix continues.
An almost perfect mix of art and cuisine history. Perfect TV to sit back, relax and learn sommat.
An almost perfect mix of art and cuisine history. Perfect TV to sit back, relax and learn sommat.
I just didn't see the point of this. No backstory, the middle is a bit 'Oh well' and the end is missing completely.
Peggy Ryan helps the lads with some decent turns.
Not a patch on Kick Ass.
