The Bad and the Beautiful
by Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Barry Sullivan, Dick Powell, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter PidgeonDirector: Vincente Minnelli
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Editor: Conrad A. Nervig
Producer: John Houseman
Writer: Charles Schnee
Writer: George Bradshaw
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie Review: Not as Bad or Beautiful as it Could Have Been
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a film that falls a little short of the greatness it's title suggests. The writing is superb. The acting is excellent notably Lana Turner as an alcoholic daughter of a famed actor and Oscar winning Gloria Grahame as a sultry Southern housewife. I think the film goes wrong in the flat-footed direction of Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli was a journeyman director at best and he doesn't seem to have a handle on the material he's given here. One can't help but wonder what a more artful director like Douglas Sirk, Mark Robson, or "Sunset Boulevard" era Billy Wilder could have done with this film.
Summary of The Bad and the Beautiful
Kirk douglas is a movie producer who turns his talent charisma and ruthlessness into film success stomping on careers and creating enemies along the way. Special features: subtitles in english french spanish portuguese and chinese: scoring session music cues from david raksins memorable score & more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/12/2005 Starring: Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Vincente MinnelliIn The Bad and the Beautiful, Kirk Douglas plays a tyrannical, manipulative producer fallen on hard times. To get back on his feet, he asks for help from three Hollywood giants whose careers he helped launch--a director (Barry Sullivan), an actress (Lana Turner), and a writer (Dick Powell). Unfortunately, they all hate him. Flashbacks explain why. Douglas had been close to all three at different points in his career: He and the director started out together making B-movies, he gave the wayward actress her first starring role, he turned the novelist into a successful screenwriter. Then in one way or another he stabbed each of them in the back, though not always deliberately. The script has a lot of backstage clich?s, but Vincente Minnelli's sharp, energetic direction, the gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, and the topnotch performances--particularly Douglas and Gloria Grahame, who won an Oscar for her sweet role as the writer's cheerful Southern wife--flesh out the clich?s with cutting details and convincing bile. Caustic, starry-eyed, and slyly funny, The Bad and the Beautiful is a strange and skillful blend of "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere" pluck and poisonous cynicism, one of the great movies about making movies. --Bret Fetzer
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