A Royal Scandal

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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  Q7W8
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DVD-R Details

  • 4:3 (LETTER BOX)
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: April 16, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1945
  • Label: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 88
Rating: C+ -- Preminger has no ear for comedy. It comes across heavy-handed, while the political intrigue comes only to a small boil Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 11, 2013
Not a bad way to spend an hour and a half, but a strange anti-climax for Preminger after the brilliance of Laura, and a sad mark of Lubitsch's declining powers. Full Review
Film4
May 8, 2013
Rating: 3/4 -- A few laughs, but Bankhead chews up the scenery and the pacing is off a beat. Full Review
TV Guide
May 8, 2013
Rating: 2/5 -- A Royal Scandal, for all Miss Bankhead's presence, is an oddly dull and generally witless show. Full Review
New York Times
May 8, 2013
A Royal Scandal is a highly hilarious comedy with superb performances by Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn. Full Review
Variety
Feb 23, 2012
There are hints of what might have been in the performances of Coburn and Price. Full Review
Time Out
May 8, 2013

Description by OLDIES.com:

Russia's Catherine the Great falls in love with a handsome young army officer who is really a revolutionary plotting her downfall.

Product Description:

Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A ROYAL SCANDAL, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was Otto Preminger, who did his utmost to retain the "Lubitsch touch." Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchior Lengyel, the film dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, here played with blue-blooded bawdiness by Tallulah Bankhead. Catherine falls in love with a handsome young army officer (William Eythe), who turns out to be an insurrectionist planning her downfall. At the last moment, Catherine relents, allowing the officer to escape with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anne Baxter. A bit too cute for its own good, ROYAL SCANDAL has some choice moments: Most notable are Tallulah Bankhead's pained reaction upon being hailed as "The Mother of All Russias," and supporting actor Grady Sutton's southern-accented reference to the "U-ral Mountains".

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  • Sales Rank: 31,835
  • UPC: 024543878735
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