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Summary: Great like new old movie
Comment: Great classic movie in perfect condition. Seemed to be factory wrapped and well preserved. Absolutely no flaws that I could find.
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Summary: What a howl!!
Comment: As a native Philadelphian, I found this movie supremely entertaining. For openers, the "Main Line" as alluded to throughout the film is not actually in Philadelphia. Rather, it was and is in the Western suburbs of Philadelphia...towns along the "main line" of the former Pennsylvania Railroad (now used by Amtrak and the Septa Regional Rail). These would include Villanova, Paoli, Swarthmore, Haverford, Radnor, etc. All very upscale and socially desireable communities. Rittenhouse Square (the opening when the wedding takes place) is in Center City Philadelphia. Also ritzy, but not Main Line. South Philadelphia is...well, South Philadelphia. The stereotypes are well-drawn, quite full of themselves and very over the top. Then again, maybe the rich really are that different. The acting is great, the stereotypes entertaining and the story quite enjoyable. Highly recommended for a relaxing evening at home and a step back in time when the rich really were different.
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Summary: The Irish make it again!
Comment: I read this book years ago. Movies tend to fall short of good novels because they are too limited in what they can cover. But this movie does quite well. In the book there were three generations of Irish. The hero's grandmother is the immigrant who got the family to America. Next Tony (the hero) gets a key block in the getting ahead game when his second generation mother finds a crack in society's door but doesn't quite get in herself. But she keeps her foot in the door in that commitment to the future that our immigrant ancesters had that has done many of us a lot of good. Her commitment put Tony in a position to belong IF he can graduate from the right school and prove himself in a Society level law firm. Tony and his mother get behind the scenes help from Tony's real father a successful and politically connected Phila contractor who sounds an awful lot like the famous John Kelly (Grace Kelly's Grandfather). Once again the Irish immigrant class are working with a commitment to the future of their people and their family. The real father sees to it that Tony can afford Princeton and law school. And Dad keeps Tony's mother's secret. They even keep it from Tony himself.
Tony does some bad things. He gets suckered by his sweetheart's father when the lovers decide to marry before Tony has his law degree. So he loses the girl. Next he steals a a plum summer job out from under one of his college buddies to advance his own career.
Next Tony does some good things. His super influential summer employer's young wife thinks she is in love with Tony. Tony actually turns her down while making her feel good about the whole thing. He's learning to think on his back as well as his feet. And he uses his inherited Irish blarney to great effect.
Next he saves his old Princeton Buddy from a murder rap, earning the undying gratitude of a socially very important main line family. His original girl friend, good looking and also well connected, marries Tony after her husband is killed in Korea. She wanted him even though she thought he was a sell out. But when she watches him battle his way through a tough criminal rap, in a high risk situation, out of loyalty to his old pal, she stands with a look of admiration and says something like "you are the man. I'm yours for ever"
At that point I was wishing that I was Tony.
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Summary: What I Want for Christmas...
Comment: ...is a copy of this movie. A fifties black and white classic, this movie is everything movies used to be, but, sadly, are not today.
Who's Paul Newman? Sure, he's devastatingly handsome and burns up the screen as Tony, but it's Robert Vaughn who steals the show. His character, Chester, is riveting and achingly fleshed. 1959 Vaughn in a white dinner jacket...and the jail cell scene takes my breath away every time.
The soul of the movie is good triumping over evil, even if it takes good a while to get there. The meandering path the two heroes take on their journey to personal salvation makes us examine our own life choices.
You'll feel better about the human condition (not to mention lawyers) after watching this movie.
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Summary: Cynical and sexy
Comment: A steamy "Peyton Place" style sex story, featuring Paul Newman as Tony Lawrence, an ambitous young man whose soul is twisted by his aristocratic family's unwillingness to let him marry for love. Forced to play the power game, he plays it to the hilt, cynically using his sex appeal and ruthlessness to bring ruin to anyone standing in his path. I'm sure they must have toned the film script down quite a bit from what the book was like, but it's still pretty raw. Plus, Newman was one sexy monkey when he was young... if you wanna see him at his shirtless, hunky best, then this is the film for you.
