The Last Time I Saw Paris
Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson star as tragic lovers in this film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's poignant tale "Babylon Revisited."
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 25, 2011
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
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:
An enjoyable (if heavy-handed) melodrama.
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Time Out
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
This picture tries to please everybody. It won't.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Technicolor Parisian travelogue, MGM-style, that barely skims the Fitzgerald source material.
Film Threat
Rating: B- --
Somewhat engrossing but too much a dull and heavy-handed tragic melodrama.
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Ozus' World Movie 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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Description by OLDIES.com:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's poignant tale "Babylon Revisited" provides the basis for this film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson as tragic, restless lovers striving to find meaning and fulfillment in the bittersweet world of fashionable post-war Paris. In the midst of celebrating VE Day, an army lieutenant (Johnson) meets two beautiful sisters, Helen and Marion (Taylor and Donna Reed), who both fall deeply in love with him. But it is Helen, the hopelessly romantic, free-spirited one who finally captures his passionate heart. Their marriage evolves into a tempestuous struggle as their needs, although identical, are never felt at quite the same time.
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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