Casanova's Big Night
by Norman Z. McLeod
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Actor: Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Bob Hope, Hugh Marlowe, Joan FontaineDirector: Norman Z. McLeod
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland
Producer: Paul Jones
Writer: Aubrey Wisberg
Writer: Edmund L. Hartmann
Writer: Hal Kanter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Casanova's Big Night
Movie Review: Hope Rathbone Price And Fontaine
Summary: 4 Stars
If that doesn't whet your appetite...nothing will. Hope is funny. Rathbone is funny AND villianous. Price is the great Casanova himself (yes, kiddies there was a time when Vincent Price was thought of as a handsome leading man in Hollywood circles)in what amounts to a cameo.
Fontaine is the perfect foil for Hope's antics. Family fun all the way and in color for the kiddies. This print is very good. All in all I have to give it four stars just for the Grand Ball scene.
Summary of Casanova's Big Night
Set in 18th century Italy, CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT tells the story of a tailor, played by Bob Hope, who impersonates the swashbuckling lover Casanova in order to win the affection of an attractive widow.Bob "Orson Welles" Hope is at the top of his game in this 1954 Technicolor laugh-fest co-starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone. Hope plays Pippo Popolino, Casanova's tailor, who finds himself standing in for the great lover after the real Casanova (played by Vincent Price) leaves town to avoid paying his debts. Enlisted by an overzealous mother-in-law to test the true love of her daughter-in-law-to-be, Hope must capture the prized petticoat and help avert a civil war to boot. Years before he wore out his welcome in countless TV specials, Hope is a marvel here, perfecting his neurotic and vain coward persona while enganging in some pretty inspired slapstick. It's easy to forget that in 1954 this was pretty edgy stuff. It's no wonder a young Woody Allen idolized him. --Kristian St. Clair
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