The Last Time I Saw Paris
This star-studded MGM classic is the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited." The romantic trails and tribulations of a rich girl and a writer who meet and fall in love in post World War II Paris
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 16, 2002
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Elizabeth Taylor | |
Performer: | Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Roger Moore, Kurt Kasznar & George Dolenz | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Edited by | John D. Dunning | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks & Julius J. Epstein | |
Composition by | Conrad Salinger | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Randall Duell | |
Produced by | Jack Cummings | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's tragic love story was brought to the screen with surprising vitality under Brooks' expert hand.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Technicolor Parisian travelogue, MGM-style, that barely skims the Fitzgerald source material.
Film Threat
An enjoyable (if heavy-handed) melodrama.
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Time Out
This picture tries to please everybody. It won't.
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TIME Magazine
An engrossing romantic drama that tells a good story with fine performances and an overall honesty of dramatic purpose.
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Variety
Rating: 1.5/5 --
What is to be said of such a picture? The story is trite. The motivations are thin. The writing is glossy and pedestrian. The acting is pretty much forced.
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New York Times
Rating: B- --
Somewhat engrossing but too much a dull and heavy-handed tragic melodrama.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
The classic song by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and beautiful Parisian settings provide the perfect backdrop for this romantic favorite. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited, this motion picture tells the story of a writer (Van Johnson) who returns to Paris and remembers the life he once led in The City Of Lights.
During the Liberation of Paris at the close of World War II, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful rich girl (Elizabeth Taylor at the height of her MGM beauty and stardom). They marry and have a lovely daughter together. But life's harsh realities (her family has lost it's fortune - he is tortured with the rejection a young aspiring writer must face) threaten to tear their love apart. A true romantic classic.
Product Description:
Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story "Babylon Revisited," this epic romance is a captivating blend of Parisian expatriate high society and the struggles in post-WWII Europe. When war writer and veteran Charles Wills (Van Johnson) meets the lovely and restless Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) in Paris after the war, the two strangers instantly fall in love, basking in the glory of a free Paris. Helen and her father, James Ellswirth (Walter Pidgeon), are eccentric American expatriates living life in high style but always on the brink of going broke. Charles is captivated with the Ellswirthses' reckless and fun-loving lifestyle, staying out all night, gambling and living life in the glory of the Left Bank artistic society. Charles and Helen get married and have a family, but life becomes more difficult as they continue on with their free-spirited and reckless adventure. Elizabeth Taylor is glorious as the lovely young ingenue Helen, who loves Charles in spite of herself. Her stunning costumes are shot beautifully, contributing to the glorious style of this beautifully rendered epic.
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- UPC: 089218301291
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