The Tender Trap
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Actor: Debbie Reynolds, Frank SinatraBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Actors: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm, Jarma Lewis.
- Format: DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC.
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1). Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Not Rated. Run Time: 111 minutes.
Movie Reviews of The Tender Trap
Movie Review: You see a pair of lovely eyes
Summary: 5 Stars
Ah love is the tender trap. And Charlie Reader (Frank Sinatra) is about to find out how it works. Charlie has stumbled upon the secret that in NY in the 50's there are more available females than males and is taking advantage of this. He is being visited by an old married buddy who is amazed a t the opportunity. While it looks like Sylvia Crewes (Celeste Holm) has the inside tract or dibs on Charlie, an egotistical brat Julie Gillis (Debbie Reynolds) appears on the scene With a plan to marry at all costs and an open spot for the man she plans to fit. Mean time back at the ranch Will Charlie's buddy succumbs to Sylvia's charms and which one will Charlie pick (if any)?
Yes it is a formula movie and we know the answer but getting there is the fun in watching. And we can see this again in other movies but never really the same people and play.
One reason why this is such a good movie is that they left the stage play (Robert Preston 1954) feel to it instead of trying to modify it for the media.
The Mating Game ~ Tony Randall
Summary of The Tender Trap
The future is no mystery to Julie Gillis. She has her life mapped out in details that fall just shy of where the wedding portrait will hang and the number of goldfish swimming in the bowl. Julie even knows she?ll be married next March 12. She just doesn?t know to whom. But it?s a cinch he?ll have blue eyes. Frank Sinatra headlines this ring-a-ding-ding delight with the title tune that became a Sinatra standard. Debbie Reynolds plays Julie, who sets her marital sights on a Manhattan talent agent (Sinatra) dedicated to life, liberty and the happiness of pursuit. Love is indeed The Tender Trap. And with Sinatra, Reynolds and comedy experts Celeste Holm, David Wayne and Carolyn Jones on call, it?s an entertainment gotcha!It's the total ring-a-ding lifestyle: hep Manhattan pad, fishbowl-sized martini pitcher, and a long list of female companions. Then swinging bachelor Frank Sinatra has his style cramped by a chaste and very organized young Debbie Reynolds. Her detailed blueprint for courtship and marriage forms The Tender Trap's supposedly comic premise, although the results are fairly tepid. Even those expert supporting players David Wayne and Celeste Holm, as Frank's best buddy and most loyal girlfriend, don't have their usual zing. The stage origins of the material are all too evident, with much of the action set in Sinatra's enormous apartment (which is worth a look for future archivists trying to re-create an era). There's the Oscar®-nominated title song, of course, which is still a dandy--and you'll hear it about five times, including a pre-credits sequence with Sinatra (apparently as himself, not his character) crooning to the camera. --Robert Horton
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