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starring: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughtondirected by: Julien Duvivier
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303957005
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 6303957005
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 07, 1996
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 1347
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1942
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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Not To Be Missed Film
I first saw this movie years ago on AMC - I'd never heard of it but there wasn't anything else on, so I settled in to watch. After all, with the cast of stars including Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton and Edward G. Robinson, I figured it couldn't be too bad. I was wrong - it was GREAT! The story involves a tailcoat which is passed from one story to the next and affects the lives of each person who receives it. Some of the stories were pure 40's fluff and that's okay ... Read More
Rating:  - fields
The studio apparently agreed with the previous reviewer, since the W.C. Fields segment was cut from the movie when it was initially released in theaters.
Rating: - That mythical place where everyone gets what he/she deserves
Other reviewers have given plenty of information regarding the general shape of this film--stars, cast, vignettes. A wonderful collaboration of ten different writers who together with a cast of stars, character actors, the Hall Johnson Choir (one of the gems of the Harlem Renaissance), and probably every extra then available in Southern California trace the path of a tailcoat cursed by it's tailor. This film was released in September 1942, the same month the German 6th Army began it's advance on ... Read More
Rating:  - A cavalcade of 20th Century Fox stars
"Tales of Manhattan" was an essentially pointless series of vignettes starring a plethora of stars under contract to 20th Century Fox studios. The pretext for the story surrounded a finely tailored formal tailcoat which was purported to be cursed. The tailcoat represented a talisman of both good and evil as it was passed from character to character.
The tailcoat was first presented to Charles Boyer who was portraying wealthy actor Paul Orman. Boyer winds up getting shot by the husband ... Read More
Rating: - Something for everybody.
While not less than the sum of the parts, Tales Of Manhattan really IS just parts. And some of the parts don't quite fit.
But you get your money's worth. A fine and hillarious segment with Henry Fonda and Ginger Rodgers. A brilliant, but desparately sad performance from Edward G. Robinson. A slow, boring and wildly implausible tale with Charles Boyer and Rita Hayworth. But she looks so beautiful, its almost beyond belief.
Rounding it out is a politically incorrect piece with ... Read More
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