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starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherforddirected by: Anthony Asquith
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302747188
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630274718X
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 13158
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1963
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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - This GRAND HOTEL set in an AIRPORT is a Trashy Hoot!
This swanky trashfest is sort of Grand Hotel set in an airport lounge; as the airline exec who must tend to the pampered types hired to star in this movie puts it, "I have these awful film people to see." Orson Welles plays the hilariously named filmmaker Buda, who blusters, "It is not the purpose of the modern cinema to entertain. We use our cameras today as a surgeon uses his scalpel."
Indeed, somenone's been scalpeling headlines out of the tabloids of the day, for Elizabeth Taylor ... Read More
Rating:  - Great stuff !
According the tradition of "Grand Hotel", this chamber and theatrical work concerns with a famed group of rich people who will meet and intercross their lives while they wait for the departure of a delayed flight.
Margaret Rutherford gave a stand-out performance as a unbearable and capricious old lady, but Rod Taylor and Maggie Smith shared plainly honors in this Major league team of legendary stars: Orson Welles in the role of an ambitious, greedy and tricky filmmaker who avoids by all ... Read More
Rating:  - Who's Afraid of the V.I.P.s
When "The VIPs" came out in 1963, I, like many others assumed that it was made to cash in on the noteriety of the Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor romance. For those too young to remember that Hollywood gossip, it was a lot more talked about than the fleeting topics seen in the grocery store checkout lines these days. The one thing about "The VIPs" that left me inclined to see it was the Best Supporting Oscar that Margaret Rutherford won for her role in the movie. I finally got a chance to see it the ... Read More
Rating: - Vaguely Impotent Plots
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in this 1963 movie. The pair had just released the extremely expensive "Cleopatra" and would marry the next year, so they were the toast of tabloids everywhere. Burton plays Paul Andros, a wealthy industrialist, and Taylor is his wife Frances, who seems to be a movie star although that link is never explicit. The pair arrive at London's Heathrow airport and are greeted by the VIP organizer.
Other VIPs begin to arrive for various flights, and they ... Read More
Rating: - The V.I.Ps ... Worth a second look...
The VIPs
I was extremely surprised to read the negative reviews of The VIPs, MGM's version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel... but, this time, at the airport. Despite the film's sloppy editing and its slap-dash approach to maintaining continuity of detail, the movie has turned out to be more memorable than one might have anticipated, back in the day. Since its release, in the early 1960s, I have always been a great fan, particularly of Elizabeth Taylor's incandescent performance as Frances Andros, ... Read More
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