Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time
by Alexander Hall

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Actor: Cary Grant, Eddie Acuff, Janet Blair, Kirk Alyn, Lionel Braham
Director: Alexander Hall
Cinematographer: Franz Planer
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Writer: Irving Fineman
Writer: Lewis Meltzer
Writer: Lucille Fletcher
Writer: Norman Corwin
Writer: Oscar Saul
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Hollywood System Polishes Flawed Film
Summary: 3 Stars

The large cast in this is wonderful, from Cary Grant to virtually every contract player who has a line; the production values as well. It would be impossible to cast a film like this with that kind of wall to wall talent now; its a small monument to the lost studio system. The problem is that with an intriguing premise and Cary Grant going for it, the film falls short in comparison to what Preston Sturges could have done with it in one direction or Frank Capra in another. It straddles being a children's tale or an adult's tale with a child at its center, probably for calculated economic reasons. It almost moves you, it almost becomes a giddy satire, it almost makes you believe the story, but just stops short. The ending is just right. And watching Cary Grant dance through the theatrical role makes you dream about what he could have done with "Twentieth Century". With a Sturges rewrite polish, this could have been...but it isn't.

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Summary of Once Upon a Time

Cary Grant is, irrefutably, the greatest movie star of all time. For evidence, take a look at Once Upon a Time, an airy souffl? of a movie about a once-hot Broadway producer named Jerry Flynn (Grant), now on a cold streak, who discovers a young orphan boy with a dancing caterpillar. Convinced this will save his theater from being reclaimed by the bank, Flynn skillfully turns the caterpillar into a media sensation and becomes a substitute father for the boy--but he plans to sell the caterpillar to the highest bidder, even though he promised the boy that he wouldn't. The surprise in the movie is not how impossibly charming Grant is, but how willing he was to take chances; Flynn becomes more of a villain than you'd ever expect before he sees the right path, and Grant doesn't shy away from it. A slight movie, but a superb performance. --Bret Fetzer

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