The Best of Everything
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Movie Reviews of The Best of Everything
Movie Review: Movie review
Summary: 4 Stars
If you're an old movie buff, as I am, I think you will like this one. I have seen it on TV but it is one for the collection. I have watched it twice already since I got it.Movie Review: The Best of Everything
Summary: 3 Stars
I believe this movie "tries too hard" by stuffing as many stars as it can into it. Joan Crawford was "over the top" in her role. Actually, I was rather disappointed.Movie Review: "Valley of the Dolls" -- without the pills
Summary: 2 Stars
Despite my comparison, there's nothing campy about this film. But that doesn't make it a particularly /good/ film.
Though "The Best of Everything" starts off well, as a passable drama, it gradually descends into clichéd melodrama, with foolish women getting involved with men who have only one thing on their minds. (It's surprisingly blunt for a 1959 film.) When the pregnant Diane Baker jumps out of a car to escape her rotten boyfriend, you'll be smiling. Then you'll be laughing at her hospital scene in which she wears the obligatory head bandage to indicate Serious Injuries. And when Suzy Parker falls off a fire escape to her death -- well, there won't be a wet eye in the house. (I was laughing my head off.)
Pointless, sentimental tripe. You have been warned.
Movie Review: Trashy, trite
Summary: 1 Stars
"The Best of Everything", made in 1959 is just a overly long soap box opera with top notch Hollywood fashions and hairstyles - Suzy Parker, a top model at the time, just cannot act. Her portrayal of a obsessive stalker was pathetic. Louis Jordan played her love interest, and he just did not play the part well either. Joan Crawford was the strong-willed Editor of a publishing company and you felt sorry she had to play such a pathetic part.
Overall this is a chick flick gone bad. Three young women's lives (Suzy Parker, Hope Lange, Diane Baxter) are followed as they run in and out of bad relationships in a bad movie.
Not the best.