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Epicurus.com - From Noon till Three
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $39.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley, Stan Haze, Damon Douglas
Directed By: Frank D. Gilroy
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302658699
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302658691
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1976-08
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Summary: A romantic western comedy
Comment: Graham Dorsey (Bronson) and his outlaw companions come across the mansion of Amanda (Jill Ireland) enroute to a bank robbery. Taking what they need, they leave Dorsey behind to make sure no talks. An utter cad, he is relieved not to be involved in the bank job and only too happy to be left to persue Amanda -- he is able to get her in the sack by giving a sob story about being impotent. In the course of the afternoon he leaves such an impression that she distorts into a grand romance like GONE WITH THE WIND or TITANIC that becomes a best seller and ruins his life. A must see. One of Bronson's best movies and certainly the best one he did with late wife Jill Ireland. Why isn't this on DVD?
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Summary: Comedic Meditation of the Dangers of Romanticism & Media Hype
Comment: This is a wonderful comedy featuring an unusually vulnerable, comedic role for Charles Bronson as an Old West bank robber who gets involved with a lonely romance-addled widow, prone to exaggeration (played by Mrs. Bronson, Jill Ireland) and as a result, becomes an early victim of media hype and myth-making.
The tragicomic events that close out the film are absolutely priceless.
I hope someone sees fit to re-release this film in a new DVD edition. It's a fun film that deserves a wider audience.
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Summary: WHO KNEW CHARLES BRONSON HAD SUCH CHARM!
Comment: Charm is not a word usually associated with Charles Bronson, but he is chock full of it in this movie. While riding with a gang to rob a bank, his horse goes lame and his gang leaves him at the first house they stumble upon, owned by a rich widow played by Bronson's real life wife, Jill Ireland. The gang promises to return in what they figure will be 3 hours to pick him up, thus the name of the movie. Ireland is just gorgeous and Bronson almost attacks her but then goes for a sympathy play, (you can see the wheels in Bronson's head turning, as he faces the camera with a smug smile, skillfully acted I might add) and tells Ireland of his impotency and how he doesn't think he would've been able to make love to her anyway. Ireland takes pity on him and ends up seducing him! With the physique of a man 20 years younger and his rugged handsomeness, it's a wonder it took her all of 15 minutes to take up the challenge. She succeeds three times, once in a local swim hole, and we get to see Charles Bronson half naked in his prime! They both end up bemoaning the fact that they only have three hours together and make the best of it, falling in love in the process. As it turns out, a local comes to Ireland's house to inform her that there was a bank robbery, and the town has captured the robbers. Ireland talks Bronson into going to try to save his friends, with a vow by him of returning to her as soon as he can. Through a series of misunderstandings, Bronson ends up in jail and Ireland mistakenly believes he is dead. She then writes a book about their three hour affair and it becomes a legend of sorts, which turns her sleepy town into a sort of World's Fair exhibit, with people coming from all over the country to view his grave, partake in the carnival shows and taking tours of her house, with an amusing emphasis on the bed where their illicit love was consumated. There's a hilarious scene while Bronson is in jail and overhears one of the inmates talking about the legend and how he knew Bronson's character. After he gets out of jail, he takes a trip back to the town, and if things weren't already crazy, they get crazier. While we don't get the ending we hope for, it does have an interesting twist and is a lot of fun. Bronson is so out of his normal persona from all his other movies, and shows a comedic flair that before this movie, was unimaginable. This role also shows his range as an actor and makes me sad that he never did more of this kind of acting - a charming, charasmatic, con-artist with a sense of fun and humor. Jill Ireland is also very good, at first playing an uptight widow, trying to withold the reputation of a much older and well reputationed dead husband. After 15 minutes with Bronson's character, her staid facade just doesn't fade away, but drops like a lead balloon, and she's in bed with Bronson, trying to cure his "impotency." The fact that she writes a book about her torrid affair and turns the town into a money-making carnival only enhances her reputation and is that much more amusing. I was channel surfing and was lucky enough to catch this movie at the very beginning. I'm so glad I did and am now searching for the movie so I can buy it. It's a definite must see!
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Summary: hollywood asleep at the wheel.
Comment: great storyline -- rattled my head at least three times. actually made me angry for denying the harmonious happy ending that was skillfully dangled over the audience in the latter part of the film. bronson and ireland worked hard for the standard ride off into the sunset and it didn't happen. the writer deserves heavy recognition but i saw none. if this film were on dvd, i would be ordering same instead of venting my frustration in this review. hmmm, well, not all my frustration. dvd, please.
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Summary: Deconstructing the Western Myth, Bronson Style
Comment: This is a darkly funny, romantic western by husband and wife team Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland, which deftly deconstructs the myth-making so many of the West's heroes are the product of. It's yet another overlooked classic by director Frank D. Gilroy, who struggled with little fanfare to create films not quite arty enought for the art-house crowd, yet not mainstream enough for the mainstream movie-goer. The results, as in this comedy, are a subtle unpacking of the "hero myth" and how fantasy is often preferable to reality, even when it is alive and well, wearing a big moustache and shaggy hair, and staring you right between the eyes. It's a shame Bronson never really returned to the comic flair he showed in this film -- but many of us are waiting to enjoy his charms in the long-overdue DVD release.
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