VHS : Last Time I Saw Paris
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starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabordirected by: Richard Brooks
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302224405
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302224403
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: March 07, 1994
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 33463
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Quality bad, story is good...
The movie centers around Charles (Johnson), who gets back from the war and falls in love with a woman in Paris, Helen (Taylor) who's a fellow American. Her sister Marion (Reed) is in love with him, but he marries Helen, never knowing Marion loves him. In turn, she marries a man named Claude.
As time goes on, the marriage between Charles and Helen gets stale; they both flirt with and date others; he becomes a frustrated writer who can't get work and drinks. His drinking eventually has ... Read More
Rating:  - F. Scott Fitzgerald it ain't, but we'll take our swoony Bad Movie swill where we can get it.
Embittered expatriate novelist Van Johnson - who surely would have been our choice to play a surrogate for embittered, self-tortured expatriate F. Scott Fitzgerald - wanders scenic postwar Parisian locals mourning dead Elizabeth Taylor. Wherever he roams, someone is warbling the title song, THEIR song.
Wandering into a bistro, THEIR bistro, Johnson encounters all-purpose ethnic barman Kurt Kaszner, who reminds Johnson of those glorious wartime days and nights. "Maybe we had too many ... Read More
Rating: - Badly in need of restoration
The cinematographer for this film was the legendary four-time Oscar winner Joseph Ruttenberg. But sadly the film has suffered greatly over time, and was not restored before being digitized for DVD. Throughout the film, the color and brightness constantly change and flicker, to the point of being very distracting, not to mention disappointing. The storyline is a bit of a soap opera, made enjoyable by terrific actors and the wonderful Parisian scenery. But sadly, the deterioration of the film saps ... Read More
Rating: - 5 stars for the movie not the transfer
I can't believe how many versions of "The Last Time I Saw Paris" there are and yet NONE are in widescreen and none seem to be a good digital transfer! I can't image what's up with this movie! The movie itself has a great storyline and Elzabeth Taylor looks hotter than ever! Worth watching but can't understand why this movie keeps being shortchanged over and over again!
Rating: - The movie betrayed the dry-eyed spirit of the original material...
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" converted the author's sensibility downward, to compassion and soap opera... The movie therefore betrayed the dry-eyed spirit of the original material... The first mistake, though, was in changing the era from the Lost Generation Twenties to post-World War II... The jazz age ambiance, recollected in the story, the mystique of Paris in the Twenties--these key tokens of Fitzgerald's sensibility were missing...
Even more damaging than the switch in era is the attempt ... Read More
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