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Epicurus.com - The Oscar
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $169.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten
Directed By: Russell Rouse
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300147485
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300147487
Label: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Manufacturer: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Release Date: 1993-02-17
Running Time: 119
Studio: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Last Stand of 'Old Hollywood':
Comment:
I had wanted to see this movie for years, after only knowing the parody SCTV did in the early 80s ("The Nobel")...It exceeded all my expectations; I would say SCTV's version only exaggerated the film by about 10 percent! The real reason to watch is Tony Bennett as the jewish-Irishman Hymie Kelly (do you think we'd get it, with a name like that?):his performance is the opposite of his singing range, a 1-note, over-the-top set-devouring scream! The 'climactic' scene where he beats up Steven Boyd with a wastepaper basket must be seen to be believed!
I really love this film, though, because it represents the final moments of classic Hollywood, before the poisonous influence of late-60s "youth culture"(beginning with BONNIE AND CLYDE) lead American movies down the path of tedious "naturalism" and nihilistic antiheroes...give me the "phony" world of THE OSCAR any day!
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Summary: And the Nominees are...... VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, HD DVD. And the Oscar goes to... DVD?
Comment: Who doesn't love the Oscars altho this movie is watchable for all the stars it doesn't get any better then watching the 2008 Oscar presentations. Half hour after its over you forgot who was nominated and who won. Watchable just to see all the stars and how bad they can all be together in one movie.
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Summary: BAD MOVIE NIRVANA
Comment: Bad Movie nirvana beckons in this foot-stompingly funny movie about a louse who stomps all over other louses to reach the top of the Hollywood dung heap.
We fade in at an Oscar ceremony where, since Bob Hope is positively slaying the celebrity audience, we know it's a period fantasy. Personal manager Tony Bennett (making his movie debut --- and farewell) stares bitterly at Best Actor nominee Stephen Boyd, while musing, "Here you sit on top of a glass mountain called success." Cue in the flashback in which, years before, Boyd, Bennett, and stripper Jill St. John are stiffed out of their earnings by a shady club owner. They blow town for New York, where Boyd is invited to a "swinging party in the Village," and encounters Elke Sommer posing like a Chanel model. "You a tourist or a native?" he asks. Her response? "Take one from Column A and two from Column B --- you get eggroll either way." Boyd speaks for us all when he quips, "You make my head hurt with all that poetry."
He ditches St. John --- who doesn't tell him that she's carrying his child --- when super talent scout Eleanor Parker spots that certain something in Boyd. She and superagent Milton Berle pitch to studio mogul Joseph Cotten, who seems to know what that certain something is: "Once in a while, you bring me meat like this. It all has different names: prime rib of Gloria, shoulder cut of Johnny. Meat!"
Cotten signs Boyd while Bennett, in voice-over, explains Boyd's meteoric rise: "He wanted to swallow Hollywood like a cat with a canary."
Making a movie during the day, at night Boyd services the voracious Parker, who bellows from her bed, "I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slide a lid on and walk away from!" For no apparent reason, Boyd marries Sommer, but soon, he's back to tomcatting around. "He used them like Kleenex," Bennett tells us, "once and threw 'em away."
When Boyd's movies bomb, we're treated to a dream sequence that ranks high in the Bad Movie annals --- whirling smoke and bad actors mouthing bad dialogue from Boyd's past. Boyd lands an unexpected Oscar nomination, so he hatches his master plan to win the sympathy vote by paying slimy detective Ernest Borgnine to leak the story of how Boyd had once been accused of a morals charge. (Boyd believes the voters will think one of the other nominees leaked the story.) "You must be suffering from oxygen starvation," Bennett says, disaprovingly. "You lie down with pigs, you come up smelling like garbage."
During the final Oscar ceremony, Boyd gets a hooty comeuppance we wouldn't dream of spoiling for you. Essential, hallucinatory viewing before you ever watch another Academy Awards ceremony.
With Ed Begley, Edie Adams, Walter Brennan, Hedda Hopper, Peter Lawford, Merle Oberon. Presented by Joseph E. Levine from Richard Sale's novel.
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Summary: This is so over-the-top it's tremendous
Comment: Combine bad acting, a script with so many cliche lines it's laughable and a storyline that's so predictable that it makes soap operas look serious, and you have one of the greatest bad movies ever made: "The Oscar." This film is so outrageous that it easily crosses that so-awful-it's-tremendous line. Stephen Boyd is so caricaturish as Frankie Fane that he's hilarious. Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but he has no idea where he left his acting ability. Elke Sommer, Jill St. John and Eleanor Parker may form the worst trio of headlining actresses in the history of Hollywood. Ernest Borgnine is a sure sign that the cast is comedic, especially when legendary comedian Milton Berle is ludicrously cast in a dramatic role. I'm not even going to get into Jack Soo as the houseboy. All I can say is that if you can get a rare copy of this cult classic -- which for integrity purposes never seems to find its way on television -- grab it and enjoy. Bad never felt so good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: THE OSCAR
Comment: if you like mellodrama, and you like campy, you will love this movie. it should be listed as a cult movie
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