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Summary: Marilyn and oh so much more!
Review: This movie has so much more to offer than just a great Marilyn Monroe performance (and the prospect of sneaking a peek at her panties). It's an absolutely hilarious movie from start to finish--the fun just doesn't stop!
Tom Ewell is a delight as mild-mannered husband on the loose Richard Sherman, and the movie is well worth watching for his performance alone. His Walter Mitty like fantasies are a laugh riot--in one, he imagines the Marilyn character warning the entire nation on live TV about what a lecherous wolf he is during one of her "Dazzledent" commercials. Comical situations abound in Ewell's life, like the antics at the sleazy pulp-fiction publishing house he works for that's reprinting "Little Women" as "The Secrets of a Girl's Dormitory" complete with lurid cover, and at the vegetarian restaurant he dines at since his wife isn't home to fix him supper (hey, it was the 50's).
This movie would be worth watching even without Marilyn, but she's here too in one of her funniest, most winsome performances as "the tomato from upstairs" who keeps her panties in the icebox for those hot summer days and gets her toe jammed in the bathtub drain and has to wait for the plumber to come rescue her from her predicament.
Great script, cast and performances all around--give it a chance, you won't be sorry!
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Summary: air conditioning, champagne & potato chips.....
Review: This is a wonderful movie!!! and now that it is finally on dvd, I am glad to have it in my possession. The movie itself is restored to brilliant color and crisp clearness for the viewer's eye. The extras were very interesting. I very much enjoyed the Backstory(from the cable channel AMC). It helps take the viewer behind the scenes a bit and see a little more than MM's undies.The deleted scenes made me laugh!!! To think what drew the line back in the 1950's as far as censors go!! These were so tame by today's standards. They are still delightful scenes nonetheless. They should've been put back onto the entirity of the film for the dvd. The movie itself is just elegant, as MM's character would say. It's the story of Richard Sherman, played by comedic talent, Tom Ewell. Marilyn plays "the girl" who gets Mr. Sherman's wild imagination going. She lives upstairs and when her tomato plant falls over and practically kills him, he invites her down for a drink. Just a drink...
There's much more going on, just check this film out. You won't be disappointed!!! It's a light airy comedy with great laughs, and the beauty of Marilyn.
This is a wonderful party!
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Summary: Very Dated Film - Great For Monroe
Review: While I am typically a Billy Wilder fan, I found this film to be one of the only films to come out of the 40-60's that was truly so dated as to be difficult to watch... and I don't mean by sexual content. The film tracks the adventures of Richard Sherman and a Marilyn Monroe vehicle girl as they nearly have an "affair". The situations are so enjoyable, that it would have been brilliant, had not Sherman vocalized his every thought and action. This movie, for me, is literally ruined by dialogue that pulls me right out of the film by describing visual images that we are presented with as if we are 8 year olds that might miss what is going on had we not been told. On the positive side, Marilyn Monroe's performance was great. She stole the show, but doesn't she usually? Watching her performance made the evening worth while. Overall I would say watch this if you are a Monroe or Wilder fan, but be prepared to be treated like an infantile audience, and to have a horse beaten in front of you with poor dialogue describing what you should be seeing. Good but not great!
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Summary: MARYLIN FOREVER
Review: SEVEN YEAR ITCH is one of the five jewels of the Fox DVD Diamond Collection released a few weeks ago. Directed by Billy Wilder in fall 1954, the movie, based on a theatrical play, is a vehicle for the studio star Marylin Monroe. But the movie is much more than a comedy involving a middle-aged average New-Yorker and a superb blonde creature. SEVEN YEAR ITCH is a cinematographic ode to Suggestion, a deity forgotten nowadays but worshipped during decades by a significant number of american directors who had to deal with the Hays Code, the Holy Book of Censorship. Even if it can be found among the bonus features of this DVD two deleted scenes offered to the scissors of the censors, SEVEN YEAR ITCH still provides scenes of anthology such as the Rachmaninoff seduction scene or Marylin unique way to refresh her legs in the hot streets of New-York. I rate this DVD only three stars and a half, because, in my opinion, the characters haven't aged so well but nonetheless I can't imagine not to have this DVD in my library. So go figure. A DVD zone icon.
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Summary: Marilyn at her best
Review: What's not to like? Marilyn, looking great, a funny story and great acting from all involved. If you're only going to own one Marilyn movie, this is the one to have.
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Summary: BLISSFUL PERFECTION FROM BEGINNING TO END
Review: Breathtaking restoration/transfer of this perfection of a film to DVD - with remarkable performances and direction. The colors and shadows are luminous; the audio sublime. If only we could count on the once impeccable CRITERION to release such a wonderful product. Ah, well......Run, click, buy this indispensible DVD - and enjoy the many fascinating extras.
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Summary: One of the most daring films ever made in the 1950's.
Review: Billy Wilder and stars, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell really pushed the censors to the limit in thie movie where Monroe plays a beautiful woman who live upstairs and catches the attention of Ewell's eyes in this sexy comedey that has entered the minds of popular culture to this day.
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Summary: Simply Irresistable
Review: I won't do a summary, BUT I just have to say this is the best older movie I have ever seen. I have never laughed so hard. I don't know why, but every line Marilyn has is so funny to me: "I can tell this is classical music, because there's no vocal" she says in one of the scenes. Also it's worth seeing simply to watch Marilyn light up the screen. I have never seen someone be so luminous on the screen. She's like electricity, you can't take your eyes off of her! SEE IT SEE IT SEE IT Yes I've gone insane
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Summary: Based on a well-known fact.
Review: [Fact] if your name is Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) and your wife of seven years has gone to Florida for the summer, you will fall victim to the "The Seven Year Itch." This film is based on a play by George Axelrod, who also wrote Goodbye Charlie ASIN: B00000IBMF, ASIN: 6304237707 and directed Lord Love A Duck ASIN: 6304237707. The director Billy Wilder also directed The Apartment ASIN: B00003CX8V and Sabrina (1954) ASIN: B00003CXCG. As with Shakespeare, this movie is a classic, many scenes and lines have been immortalized and parodied. And I am not too sure that Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto was not used to remind us of "A Brief Encounter" ASIN: 0780023420. The basic story line is ever since the time of native Americans, in the summertime wives and children go south for the summer to escape the excessive heat. This leaves a residual of working husbands and sprinkling of single women. Or to be more precise, Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe. Tom has a great imagination and we see many of the scenes through his imagination. As the two accidentally meet and start to converse, Richard Sherman's (Tom) imagination only gets more exotic. I am not going to quote the movie lines or scenes as if you have previously viewed this movie, then you know them by hart. If you are new to this movie, you need to have the characters deliver them. I will say one of my favorites is when Mr. Kruhulik, the janitor, comes to clean the rugs, he gets an eyeful, then makes a logical assumption. Be sure to get the DVD as it has all the goodies that DVD's promise, including, Backstory: The Seven Year Itch and 2 deleted scenes: Bathtub & Subway. The movie is quite fun aside from being a classic and you may see yourself in it as well.
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Summary: Grass-Widower is Tempted by Blond-Bombshell Neighbor
Review: This is the perfect vehicle for Marilyn Monroe! Cast as the gorgeous blonde living upstairs from a married man (played by Tom Ewell) whose wife and small son are away vacationing, Monroe soon feels her neighbor getting a bit "chummy". Inviting her down for a drink is one thing, but trying to smooch her while the pair play "Chopsticks" on the piano is going a bit far. -- Ahead of its time, this film suffered emmensely by the hands of strict censors. Great comedy remaining in tact in the stage play is snipped away to fall in line with the "code", leaving little of the original humor in tact. Still Billy Wilder managed to create another masterpiece. The now immortalized "subway shaft scene" alone is worth the price of this video. There is no substitute for a classic movie; "The Seven Year Itch" definitely is a classic movie!
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