|
|
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792856191
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792856198
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 41466
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Dean Martin is full of charm wit and snappy one-liners in this 'sly irreverent brash and daring comedy' (The Film Daily) from the legendary team of Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (Some Like It Hot The Apartment)!When the world-renowned singer 'Dino' (Martin in a hilarious self-parody) passes through Climax Nevada he doesn't count on meeting two would-be songwriters with a plan to trap him there and serenade him with their songs. But then again they weren't counting on Dino's insatiable appetite... for wine and women! And when one of the men learns that his own wife was once president of Dino's fan club he hires a replacement wife (Kim Novak) to help lure the carousing star into a song-buying mood!System Requirements:Starring: Dean Martin Kim Novak Felicia Farr Cliff Osmond Ray Walston Directed By: Billy Wilder Running Time: 126 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616887627 Manufacturer No: 1004722
Amazon.com:
In 1964 director Billy Wilder was at the top of his game. Following a string of hits that had begun in 1959 with Some Like It Hot, he now intended to direct a bawdy boudoir farce in the grand tradition of the French theater. The contorted plot involves one Orville J. Spooner, an aspiring song writer (originally to be played by Peter Sellers, but replaced by Ray Walston after Sellers suffered a heart attack, which he partly blamed on Wilder), and his crazed lyricist, buddy Barney Milsap. Together they toil away in the town of Climax, Nevada, Orville working as a piano teacher and Barney pumping gas across the street. Along comes Dean Martin, playing a thinly veiled caricature of himself, who just wants to fill up his tank. Instead, the songwriting duo rig his car so he's forced to spend the night at Orville's, giving the dolts a chance to pitch their songs. But Dino also wants Orville's wife. No problem! They hire Polly the Pistol (Kim Novak), the local prostitute, to masquerade as her. Thus begin the high jinks. The film plays like an extended dirty joke that could have been told around the office water cooler in 1960. It was a colossal failure both critically and commercially, and was banned by the Catholic League of Decency, to boot. Nonetheless, the film has aged well and was ahead of its time (think of it as the grandfather of Caddyshack and the great-grandfather of There's Something About Mary). Wilder eventually renounced the film and moved on. --Kristian St. Clair
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Soooo funny!
This is a REALLY funny movie, from the very beginning! Kim Novak is awesome, as usual, and Ray Walston is absolutely hilarious! Seems a little ahead of it's time, a surprising twist, totally enjoyable!
Rating:  - "If it weren't for Venetian blinds, it'd be curtains for us..."
Billy Wilder's most notorious flop, KISS ME STUPID (1964) was one of the first mainstream Hollywood movies to deal with the risque subject of partner-swapping. Dean Martin is the top-billed star (his character is very much a supporting one); but the film belongs to the sublime comic talents of Ray Walston and a surprisingly mellow, downbeat Kim Novak.
In the small town of Climax, Nevada, struggling songwriter Orville Spooner (Ray Walston) and his friend Barney (Cliff Osmond) attempt ... Read More
Rating:  - strains to be funny...
The one and only reason to see this is the gorgeous Kim Novak. Novak has charisma to spare. Makes her
character, Polly the Pistol, fun, lovely, and--absolutely believable.
Walston seems miscast. Martin not very good at all. Writing is contrived & doesn't work.
Some claim Wilder was a genius... Seems, to me, he was far better as a director, than a writer.
Rating: - Poor Mr Martin
A rather unfunny film that has dated badly. Some moments but really misses the mark. Avoid.
Rating: - Crude ,vulgar and vigorous
Billy Wilder's crude and lewd sex comedy was roundly condemned on its original release by various religious and social groups-unsuprisingly so.It does take a satirical and sarcastic look at marriage,small town life and values ,not to mention the music business and the media.Yet ,if you look beneath the surface you will find a sensitive and ironic fable of love ,fidelity and jealousy.The screenplay ,by Wilder and frequent collaborator A I L Diamond ,is based on a play L'Ora Della Fanatsia by Anna Bonacci ... Read More
|
|
