The Bad and the Beautiful (Bilingual) [Import]

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Author: Vincente Minnelli

Brand: Turner Home Ent

Format: Black & White

Release Date: 05-02-2002

Details: Amazon.caInThe 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 clichs, 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 clichs 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

UPC: 012569524026

EAN: 9780790747569

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood