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Is there a difference in this latest version of this DVD release? Or is it simply a marketing "repackage"? There is a difference!
In my opinion, the DVD transfer of this "Special Collector's Edition" is far superior to the original DVD release. In a side-by-side comparison, I was amazed to see the job that was performed on this restoration. While, the original DVD contains plenty of dirt, scratches, conversion-related distortion/noise, etc., the Special Collector's Edition looks nearly pristine.
There are plenty of scenes in the movie where I experienced, how can I describe it, the illusion of depth and/or three-dimensional effect.
This version will certainly replace my original copy.
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This movie is pure entertainment. Hitchcock loved Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, food and the south of France, and it all shows here. They must have had a wonderful time making this terrific film and we are lucky to have this record of it.
Grace Kelly must have been about 25, pristinely lovely as a white gardenia in full bloom. She's more than just a beautiful blond though and brings something of charm and intelligence of the mature woman she is on the verge of becoming. (Too bad she married that playboy prince and ruined it all...but that's another story.) Cary Grant, ultra tan as was the fashion at that time, is still very handsome and, at 50, is almost mesmerizingly charming. The chemistry between the two, despite the age difference, is terrific. At first Grant holds back, being a gentleman, but Kelly pursues and at the end, she catches her thief.
To me this is more of a love story than a mystery and I didn't care in the least who the real cat burglar was...but maybe that's cuz I am a woman.
The censorship of the 50's was much more strict than in our times, which, I think, heightened the charm of the romance. Alone together in her hotel room, with Kelly looking like a goddess from the moon in her white chiffon dress, one wonders how Grant can keep his cool for as long as he does. When they finally kiss (!) we are treated to shots of fireworks through the balcony window. It may sound corny but it is tremendously effective and very sweet. Bring back Romance!
The visuals are splendid--there's plenty of beauty to fill up every screen, whether it's shots of the blue blue sea, French chefs in mile-high hats or a flower market filled with pink and red blooms. The costumes are lavish. In the opening credits, a travel poster brags, "If you love life, you'll love France!" I think that pretty much sums up this picture.
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This film shows Hitchcock in a playful rather than macabre mood and calls to mind the screwball comedies of the 1930's.
Dapper Cary Grant plays John Robie, a reformed cat burgler from the French Riviera, who sets out to catch the current jewel thief who's imitating his own past crimes. Patrician beauty Grace Kelly is an American heiress whose clever mother, apparently the reader of too many Henry James novels, has brought her to Europe for the overt purpose of catching a husband. Kelly sets out, not surprisingly, to catch a thief of her own in the person of the Cary Grant character. Reminiscent of Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby," underneath a distracted manner, she pursues her prey with single-minded wit and energy, giving the lie to her mother's description of her as a dull, overly refined, probably unmarriageable woman.
The two stars exchange a considerable amount of witty repartee. Kelly, for instance, at her verbal best, rejects Grant's lie that he's a wealthy lumberman from Oregon. He reminds her, she says sunnily in her mock innocent little girl's voice, of English actors in Hollywood films who try and fail to pass themselves off as Americans. Their accent and manner are all wrong. Such a combination of brains and beauty sweep Grant pretty quickly off his feet. A classic ensuing scene of romance, punctuated by exploding fireworks, says it subtly and says it all.
The supporting cast includes many veteran scene stealers. Chief among them is a raucous, refreshingly vulgar, excessively monied Jesse Royce Landis, playing Kelly's mother. In a memorable bit of Hitchcock business, she closes in on a room service breakfast tray, surprisingly and hilariously extinguishing her cigarette, of all places, in the yolk of a sunny side up egg. Presumably, to this clever, wealthy American abroad, the world is her ashtray.
If the movie is judged in the spirit in which it was conceived, as a light entertainment rather than any profound study of human experience, it would be hard not to award it five stars.
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A wonderful film by Hitchcock,King Of Mysteries.It'll forever be a classic.It draws through a virgin land of a French maritime in the 50's.Apart from the blue beauty of the overlooking Mediterranean sea,we can contemplate the beauty of Princess Grace Kelly too.This package is fine,colour is great,clean and neat,enjoyable performance,no blurr.
How many times have i visited Monaco,this time this twist-ending story of Hitchcock has caught me delightfully with this never-ending beauty of this place.
I caught a thief too,this morning....when i discovered that my 'Tweety' disappeared!!
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This is positively one of the most delightful movies ever produced anywhere! I have enjoyed this film so many times (countless) since it first premiered in the summer of 1955 (I was 14 at the time) that's it's almost unimaginable. It's like a piece of artwork, there always to be appreciated and enjoyed. It's like visiting an old friend or even better,
a trip back in time to a great period in American Culture and movie making.
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