AMC CARY GRANT SET

AMAZING ADVENTURE, THE
(AKA: Amazing Quest Of Ernest Bliss, The)(1936)

A film to show that anyone can still have a heart, even if
they are filthy rich! They just need to be reminded. A

A review from an Amazon.com customer:

I had never seen this entire film before, so I was glad that I
got a chance to get through the entire story. Grant was simply
a natural actor & the best at being himself. Or, as he was once
reported to have said: "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Hell,
even I want to be Cary Grant. " Well, you can see him on his way
to becoming himself in this delightful film. It's still in the genre
of the girl loves the guy but he has no money so she can't fall for
him or marry him predicament, but it still works. His beautiful
co-star is just that, beautiful & certainly fun to watch as Cary
plays......well...you know.......... Don't miss this film. - Mark Showalter

This was quite a bit of fun! It is too bad that this dvd
had no closed captioning to allow my beautiful wife
to enjoy this too! B+

A review from the back of the DVD:

The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic
1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions
and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made
about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships.
Lewis Milestone's 1931 movie is well respected (Billy Wilder's
1974 version isn't), but this is one case where the remake towers
brilliantined head and blocked shoulders above the original.

Howard Hawks had the inspired notion of making Hildy
Johnson--the ace newsman whom demonic editor Walter
Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--a
she instead of a he. What's more, she's not only Walter's
star reporter but also his ex-wife. When Hildy (Rosalind
Russell) comes to tell Walter (Cary Grant) she's leaving
the newspaper business, he bamboozles her into carrying
out one last assignment--a death-row interview with a
little nebbish (John Qualen) convicted of killing a policeman.
It sounds like a snap, but before you can say screwball
comedy, the press room of the Criminal Courts Building
has become ground zero for all the lunacy a jailbreak,
a shooting, an impromptu suicide, a corrupt city administration,
and the most Machiavellian "hero" in the American cinema
can supply.

His Girl Friday is one of the, oh, five greatest dialogue
comedies ever made; Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck
speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one
laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated
in the meantime. Russell, not Hawks's first choice to play Hildy,
is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys"
and creating an enduring feminist icon. Grant is a force of nature,
giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond
brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one
viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have
to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the
press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards,
Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble
work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T. Jameson

Wow!!!! This is without a doubt the most heart-wrenching
movie I have ever watched! If you don't shed a tear or two
on this, you are one heartless soul!!! Great great movie! A

A review from Amazon:

When you go to the Music Hall this time, take along a couple
of blotters and a sponge. In fact, if you are prone to easy
weeping, you might even take along a washtub. And don't
be disturbed if your neighbor, unprovided, drips and splatters
all over you. For this time the comic muse very frequently
gives way to tears. This time Cary Grant and Irene Dunne,
whose previous cinematic marriages have been more or
less on the frivolous and nicely indecent side, are so
blissfully and properly united that it takes a tragedy to
threaten briefly to tear them apart. This time the new
picture is Columbia's ""Penny Serenade.""

When you think about it coolly and dispassionately and
after an interval of at least an hour you can't help but
feel that somebody has slipped a fast one over on you.
Maybe it is Producer George Stevens, who has put together
a film which employs not one but six or seven of the
recognized sob-story tricks. Maybe it is Miss Dunne, who
originally succumbs to one of the most severe cases of
galloping nostalgia we have ever witnessed on the screen.
And maybe it is Mr. Grant, that worldly and jocular chap,
who shamelessly permits a tiny tot to play ""Home, Sweet
Home"" on his heart-strings. The thing is you never suspect
these people are going quite so soft on you until bam! they
are wallowing in sentiment and your eyes are leaking like
a sieve.

But that's the way it is. From the moment that Miss Dunne
sadly turns on the old gramaphone and, to the plaintive
strains of ""You Were Meant for Me,"" the scene fades back
to her first meeting with Mr. Grant, you may recognize that
you are in for a reminiscent wrench. Then, as she successively
replenishes the music box with such nostalgic tunes as ""Just
a Memory,"" ""Missouri Waltz,"" ""Poor Butterfly,"" ""Blue Heaven,""
etc., right out of a book, you follow the couple as they marry,
suffer countless little woes, buy a country newspaper, adopt
a baby and finally lose the child they love so much.

And slowly, without being aware of it, you drift with them
and the film from brittle, sophisticated comedy to out-and-out
softy stuff, from the quixotic plighting of their troth at a New
Year's Eve party to the first fearful bathing of baby in the
familiar new-parents comedy vein. And then you are sniffling
and gulping as little daughter takes part in her first school
play and you know that the teacher's promise that she can be
""an angel next year"" is irony. Somehow, it all goes down,
despite a woefully overlong scriptall but Mr. Grant's
recalcitrance after the little one is gone. It's hard to believe
that a man could treat his ever-loving wife so wretchedly, at
a time when both would be drawn even closer together by
grief. And their sudden joyful willingness to adopt another
child is open to doubt.

But some very credible acting on the part of Mr. Grant and
Miss Dunne is responsible in the main for the infectious
quality of the film. Edgar Buchanan, too, gives an excellent
performance as a good-old-Charlie friend, and Beulah Bondi
is sensible as an orphanage matron. Heart-warming is the
word for both of them. As a matter of fact, the whole picture
deliberately cozies up to the heart. Noel Coward once drily
observed how extraordinarily potent cheap music is. That is
certainly true of ""Penny Serenade. --The New York Times

This is among my top 5 movies ever made!! Cary Grant,
Audrie Hepburn(!!!!!), George Kennedy, James Coburn &
Walter Matthew in a very Hitchcockian movie that will keep
you guessing til the end! A wonderful movie that I have
watched over 100 times, never tiring of it!!! A+

A review from Amazon.com:

Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is
murdered and who finds she is being followed by four
men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away.
Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his
real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the
killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but
it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the
possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas
between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade
is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but
suspense-wise it holds its own; and Donen's glossy
production lends itself to the welcome experience
of stargazing. One wants Cary Grant to be Cary Grant
and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn
in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly
don't let us down. --Tom Keogh

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