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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302413335
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302413338
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 134 minutes
Sales Rank: 13578
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1963
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Why is this out of print ?
Why is this movie out of print ? This is a great movie, fantastic thriller. There is one scene set in a nudists' club. Is that the problem ?
I just can't stand the MPAA. Not sure if it their fault, but it certainly smells like it.
Rating: - Why is it not on DVD?
I remember seeing this movie a very long time ago. Since then it seems to have been swept under the carpet.
After reading the reviews, I agree that it is an Alfred Hitchcock knock off, but I disagree as to which one. Foreign Correspondent (1940) has a very similar plot and in fact, I used Foreign Correspondent, to find this movie title. I was looking for a remake of Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent. I saw the Foreign Correspondent a short time ago and it made me remember this movie, the name ... Read More
Rating:  - If only the Nobel Prize ceremonies were always this intriguing
For a Hitchcock knock-off, The Prize is not bad at all. There's an amusing situation (not Lincoln's nostril but the Nobel Prize ceremonies), scenic tours (not of the Riviera but of Stockholm), a gaunt killer (not an imported assassin who knows music but a waiter), a long, terrifying fall (not Madeleine Elster but Paul Newman), a supple blond ice queen (not Grace Kelly or Eva Marie Saint but Elke Sommer) and a dashing hero (not Cary Grant but Newman). And in an odd sort of way, it's Paul Newman who is ... Read More
Rating:  - At Least Elke Looks Nice
It took me years to finally see "The Prize" (1963), although the film had intrigued me since I saw a production still featuring the then radiant (and very young) Elke Sommer. But until I actually viewed "The Prize" I was unaware that this was one of the earliest Hollywood attempts to create a blockbuster. Not because of potential box office (it would take "Jaws" and "Star Wars" to start that revolution), but because the industry at the time felt the only way to successfully differentiate themselves from ... Read More
Rating: - Fun, Hitchcockian Thriller
A very underrated little Hitchcock knock-off, centered around the kidnapping of a brilliant scientist (Edward G. Robinson) at the time of the Nobel Prize ceremony. Paul Newman is Andrew Craig, a writer and prize winner who was reluctant to even come to the ceremony but becomes embroiled in the international intrigue (which, of course, no one around him believes is actually happening). Light and engaging, with several 'borrowings' from the "North By Northwest" script (which is allowed, I suppose, since they ... Read More
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