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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790747569
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790747561
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 05, 2002
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 31379
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1952
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
In The 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 clichés, 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 clichés 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - All about Jonathan . . .
This enjoyable film from the 1950s tells a melodramatic story of behind-the-scenes movie making at what was then the approaching end of the old studio system in Hollywood. And thanks to a tightly written script and wonderful direction by Vincent Minnelli, its ensemble of actors provides two hours of entertainment that seldom seems dated or over-baked - at least it's pretty easy to suspend your disbelief.
Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner are just fine as a self-serving movie producer and ... Read More
Rating:  - Hollywoods Facade
The true skin of Hollywood studio system is finally shows itself through Vincente Minnelli's crime/Noir; The bad and the beautiful. Slightly hits the simular angle to Billy Wilders acclaimed Sunset Boulevard which was released 1950, three years prior to The bad and the beautiful.
However Minnelli offers us an inside narrative from three characters who each play a major part in the film industry, Actress, Director and writer who all have been betrayed by the callous Hollywood mogul, ... Read More
Rating:  - The Hollywood Version of Hollywood
The film begins with a rehearsal in a movie factory. Then a telephone call tries to reach some people but they won't accept the call. Jonathan wants to make a new picture with these people. Then there are flashbacks to the past life in Hollywood. Jonathan Shields began working in Hollywood; his father left him little. He has an idea for a horror film to suggest fear with minimal effects and costs. It works. Then they take on a script that the other studios rejected. We see how his friend is wounded ... Read More
Rating: - WHERE ARE YOU, JONATHAN?
Maddening story of a no scruples Hollywood producer,using everyone for his own benefit. While most see this film as an indictment of the film industry, I tend to liken it to big business on a grander scale, or to Washington politics. Anyway, there's so much gall and charm built into Douglas' personna that even those he's hurt the most seem willing to give his final "pitch" over a long distance phone call a listen. Gloria Grahame won an Oscar for her portrayal as Dick Powell's sexy wife, and don't ... Read More
Rating: - Great Cast!
With a cast like this and directed by Vincent Minelli, it would be impossible for this movie not to be good. Kirk Douglas plays a down and out producer in a trilogy of three short stories that come together. He makes a star out of a down on her luck Lana Turner, a Pulitzer Prize winning author out of Dick Powell, and an award winning director out of Barry Sullivan. Lana Turner has never been more appealing, nor has Dick Powell ever been more sardonic. Kirk Douglas always somewhat tends to overact, ... Read More
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