Three Coins In the Fountain
by Jean Negulesco
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Actor: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamaraDirector: Jean Negulesco
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
Editor: William Reynolds
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Writer: John H. Secondari
Writer: John Patrick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Italian (Original Language); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Three Coins In the Fountain
Movie Review: Splish Splash
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a sucker for all the Fox movies with the plot about the three (sometimes four) girls all stuck together through some plot contrivance, a housing shortage, a graduation ceremony, or what not, and then over time we see the different paths the girls take. Over and over again 20th Century Fox trotted out this idea and you can see it in everything from HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE to VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. (THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is another favorite). THREE COINS is a unique example of this form, and a strange one, in that it parcels out its three stories one at a time, instead of dealing with them interwoven through the whole story.
You'll notice for example that first we get the story about Jean Peters and Rossanno Brazzi, and then that story kind of "peters" out and the middle section of the film is devoted to the lighthearted pursuit of Louis Jourdan by Maggie McNamara. Finally, bringing up the rear, Dorothy McGuire and Clifton Webb share an autumnal passion. It's almost as though for reasons of budget or convenience the film could have been made simultaneously in three large chunks, with the three girls being spotted together only in a few places. (And all the main characters seem to meet only at the very end.)
I have often wondered if Arthur Laurents and Sondheim and Bernstein caught a showing of this 1954 film while working, perhaps, on WEST SIDE STORY? It's funny that two of the girls here are called Maria and Anita. I always expect them to burst into song with a "BOY LIKE THAT" duet.
Jean Peters is so sexy in this movie. She really makes you believe she'd throw away everything respectable to pursue her Latin lover. She is like a real-life D H Lawrence heroine. In contrast, the Maggie McNamara story is pretty puerile, I like her, but her lying and scheming to please Prince Dino isn't cute, it's sickening. As for Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire, I have only one thing to say--that their skillful playing makes an unlikely story almost believable. McGuire was 38 when she made this movie--by the script you'd think she was 88, she is supposedly completely over the hill, too old for children, too old to catch a man. Nevertheless, the plot has a primitive power that hooks you every time. And the new DVD has those wonderful, gorgeously restored, long takes of Rome's fountains, with that melting music pouring it on like liquid sunlight.
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