The Battle of the Sexes (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 1, 2016
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings & Donald Pleasence | |
Performer: | Jameson Clark, Moultrie Kelsall, Alex Mackenzie & Ernest Thesiger | |
Directed by | Charles Crichton | |
Edited by | Seth Holt | |
Screenwriting by | Monja Danischewsky | |
Composition by | Stanley Black | |
Produced by | Monja Danischewsky | |
Director of Photography: | Freddie Francis |
Entertainment Reviews:
Charles Crichton has directed a neat and highly enjoyable film, with some brilliant timing in its attempted murder scene and the sort of scorings-off that will appeal to everyone.
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The Spectator
Like many another recent comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, this British effort begins hilariously but fails to fulfil its promise, bogging down in strain, coyness and repetition.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES is a witty comedy from director Charles Crichton. The House of MacPherson has been supplying Scottish tweeds for years--its weavers make the tweed in their homes on the Scottish islands, and the staff sells it in the company's Edinburgh premises. When Old MacPherson (Ernest Thesiger) dies, his son, Young MacPherson (Robert Morley), takes over and brings in an efficiency expert. That's bad enough, but worse, the expert is a woman and, even worse than that, she is an American woman. Horrors. The staff, led by Mr. Martin (Peter Sellers), is aghast. The expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) begins to organize, to streamline, and to make plans to update the company's manufacturing methods. Young MacPherson is entranced--seduced by the idea of becoming famous for "his" soon-to-be-implemented revolutionary manufacturing methods. However, the ever-deferential Mr. Martin discovers unexpected levels of cunning as he pits his wits against the brash American. THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES is crisply directed by Charles Crichton, with a witty script by Monja Danischewsky, based on a James Thurber story. And Peter Sellers gives a fine performance as the shy, inhibited Mr. Martin, who turns out to be an extraordinary schemer.