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Summary: Hollywoods Finest Hour.
Review: It would be difficult for anyone to give disparaging comments about ALL ABOUT EVE. After all, the movie won ten oscars, had one of the wittiest scripts of all time, tremendous performances from Bette Davis and George Sanders and an excellent supporting cast including Thelma Ritters, George Sanders and Marilyn Monroe. It is a devastating expose on Hollywood showing the bitchiness, conniving and vulnerability beneath glossy appearances. Film has terrific one-liners. For example, acidic film critic Sanders says to aging actress Bette Davis - "You made such a wonderful Peter Pan. You must play it again sometime" and "Eve apologised to him on her knees, no doubt!" You can't go wrong here if your looking for quality entertainment. It is on par with Sunset Boulevard (with which it would make a great double!) and is "Valley Of The Dolls" raised to the power of ten.
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Summary: The Ultimate Backstage Movie!
Review: The film is a masterpiece! Its perfect cast (with special praise to Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holme, and Thelma Ritter) works as a skillful ensemble, ensnared in Eve Harrington's devious fight for Broadway stardom. The dialogue is sharp and witty, the repartee worthy of Noel Coward. The film is wry and sparkling, funny and biting, a total gem.The DVD transfer is a particularly spectacular and fresh, limpid black and white and wonderful grays. Though the packaging does not indicate that this is a fresh restoration, you just couldn't hope for much better--especially on a 50-year-old film. Once again this film proves that the DVD medium is at its most spectacular with the best of black and white films. Here too is a chance to see a youthful Marilyn Monroe deliver a consumate portrayal of the blond bombshell, clawing for an acting position.
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Summary: Where did all the scratches come from?
Review: One reader recently said that this DVD of "All About Eve" is crystal clear. I agree! Never have I seen this film with such fine detail and super contrasts! Good sound too! But I was quite upset about the flurry of scratches visible more or less throughout the whole film! So I took out my most recent Laser Disc copy which claimed to be a remastered version. It still looked fine, but not as crisp as the DVD, and almost NO speckles at all! As an example, just try to examine those black seconds at the start of the movie, right before the Fox logo appears, and you'll find a little snowstorm on the DVD, while the Laser Disc is completely black. From that moment on it's hard to stop noticing those ever present little speckles. How could this happen? Why did Fox Video use a slightly worn print for mastering to DVD? And if this print had better detail (which is obvious), why not try to remove the scratches digitally, the way Criterion have done on dozens of their DVD-releases? I will surely always watch the DVD-version in the future, but I strongly feel that Fox could have done better.
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Summary: One of the best movies I've ever seen
Review: This movie was made long before I was born, but I was watching TV one weekend and got sucked in... IT WAS GREAT! I went out and bought it a few weeks later, and have probably watched it 30 or 40 times. I don't usually go for old movies, but the story and acting in All About Eve are just so superb that I have started to get into them! If you don't usually like older flicks, and have never had a chance to see Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders or Thelma Ritter in action, BUY THIS MOVIE! You won't regret it.
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Summary: A SPARKLING MASTERPIECE!
Review: Bette Davis made this movie in 1950 when her career was faltering;her last film was the insipid "Beyond the Forest" (now considered a minor camp classic by some.) "All About Eve" is relished by many who hail it as Davis's all-time greatest performance(which is,in all fairness, arguable) as the forty year old magnetic actress Margo Channing.Many also feel Davis never looked better than she does here (her costume designer for this was the legendary Edith Head).The acting is genuinely excellent and the screenplay is music to the ears;as a consolation for not winning the AA,(it went to Judy Holliday)Davis received the coveted New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress.George Sanders is peerless as the poison pen critic Addison De Witt;( he won the academy award for best supporting actor.) Thelma Ritter is hilarious as the wise old companion of Margo's who's seen it all happen before. Celeste Holm gives an absolutely sparkling performance as Karen Richards(she tells Eve "I'm the lowest form of celebrity" she being the wife of playwright Lloyd Richards(Hugh Marlowe,whose wooden personality suits the role he plays.)Gregory Ratoff's timing in the "bicarbonate of soda" scene is amazing and Gary Merrill is right on as the cynical Bill whose age (32) creates insecurity for Margo; she fears she'll lose him to some young "babe".The film holds up extremely well,considering it will be 50 years old next year.Marilyn Monroe has an amusing bit as a "Graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts" Finally we come to the gal who played the "little worm" of the title: Anne Baxter.She is astonishingly straightforward and realistic in her interpretation of the louse;if she seems to be a bit on the drab side, it's only because she's underplaying to the "Queen Mother", studying and using her idol as a stepping stone in order to get her name in electric lights and reign supreme as a Lady of the Theatre; in other words, she's diabolical as HELL! If you've never seen this movie, you're in for a treat. If you have'nt seen the DVD version do so;the print is crystal clear and adds immensely to the film's viewing pleasure.This is Mankiewicz's masterpiece and it won the Oscar for the Best Picture of 1950.
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Summary: MANKIEWICZ MASTERPIECE
Review: Joe Mankiewicz was one of the rare writer/directors of the 1950s, a man who did it all. One of his most ignored and flawed films is the notorious The Quiet American. If you are interested in how Mank made his movies, you need to read about his trip to Vietnam in 1957 to film this story. It's in a book called A THINKER'S DAMN, available from Amazon.
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Summary: A GREAT ALL-TIME CLASSIC, SURE TO PLEASE!
Review: This film undoubtedly has one of the greatest, most sparkling screenplays of any movie ever made. Bette is absolutely astonishingly brilliant in the film which really was her Hollywood zenith. I used to think Anne Baxter was'nt quite right as Eve (I thought her characterization was rather drab) but on repeated viewings I find she was exactly right.
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Summary: Its like she's studying you
Review: There are more quotable lines of dialogue from this movie, than from any other. It is truly a classic in every sense of the word and is the closest thing to perfection in cinema.
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Summary: This is one of the greatest film ever.
Review: From the standpoint of story, script, acting, cast, direction, photography, this is one of the greatest films in movie history. Bette Davis, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Anne Baxter, George Saunders--are all in the summit of their careers--in one film and time. The problems of a Broadway actress who fears getting older (Bette Davis) is not the "cup of tea" of everybody, but for those who can accept it, no story and no character development is worked out better and more logically than in this film. (These comments from the VHS version; I am purchasing the DVD.) No explosions, fires, guns, or "morphing"---just good acting and fine development.
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Summary: dvd is brilliant
Review: it's pretty much accepted that this is one of the great ones from the 50's. the new dvd is an advance in that the clarity of photography is a marvel. you can actually read the marquees of the other theaters on west 45th street. the closing sequence were phoebe bows into the mirrors is spin-tingleing.
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