There isn’t enough goodwill in Henry Koster’s drawing-room comedy, IT STARTED WITH EVE, a high-fidelity divertissement from Tinseltown’s propaganda mill. The elderly, moribund multi-millionaire Jonathan Reynolds is miraculously recovered and transubstantiated into a bouncy matchmaker after meeting Anne Terry (Durbin), the fiancée of his filial son Johnny (Cummings). But the truth is, Anne is just a cloakroom girl who has aptitude of singing.
When he is unable to locate his fiancée Gloria (Tallichet), and being convinced by the family doctor Harvey (Catlett) that Jonathan is in extremis, Johnny carelessly thinks it is just a one-time deal and in a pinch he hires Anne to pretend to be Gloria, whereupon this white lie flourishes in the usual mixture of miscomprehension and farce. Anne cannot let go of a life-time opportunity to get recognized for her exceptional soprano timbre, whereas Johnny must juggle between appeasing a piqued Gloria and pondering an apposite time to spill the beans to Jonathan, but when the latter finds out the truth, he has his own little scheme to play.
It is tempting to conjecture that a May-December romance is in the pipeline, and a spry Laughton is only 42 years old, it is his beady eyes with a telling slyness that betrays the young-at-heart player under the laborious maquillage that transforms him into a decrepit patient. But under the watchful eye of the Hays Code, such age inappropriate affair is quite unethical (though in real life, it is quite hard-wired, Hollywood especially), thus, all Jonathan can do is to play cupid and keep Anne in the family, although the over-obedient and pinch-happy Johnny makes a less jarring pair with a sulky Gloria than a high-spirited, corn-fed Anne, and songbird-cum-child-star Durbin enters the phase of adulthood with a felicitous aroma of glamor and tendress.
Anodyne and exceptionally entertaining notwithstanding, IT STARTED WITH EVE’s appeal begins to pall when the stakes dissipate, but it doesn’t take long before it reaches a swiftdenouement, at least director Koster knows how to wind things up neatly for its own good!
referential entries: Koster’s THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947, 7.3/10); George Seaton’s MIRACLE ON THE 34TH STREET (1947, 7.9/10).
很多年前在央視電影頻道看過 一直都不知道片名 找了很久都無(wú)結(jié)果 居然無(wú)心插柳給找著了 沒想到印象中模糊的女主這么美
這故事很簡(jiǎn)單比較單薄,就是在父親臨死前帶個(gè)冒牌的姑娘去見最后一面、結(jié)果父親很中意這個(gè)兒媳、病奇跡般好了、然后就尷尬了的情節(jié)。可愛的老頭子是全片亮點(diǎn),一個(gè)老頑童,臉黑黑的,自帶笑點(diǎn)。女主超美,跟沒什么特色的傻白甜男主相比,跟老頭子的cp感更強(qiáng),只有女主兇兇的時(shí)候才能管著老頭子,好搞笑的公公&兒媳,老頭子還老擔(dān)心女主不喜歡自己,最后女主為了離開還說了狠話,老頭子還偷偷追到人家里去挽留,這不是男主該做的事么哈哈哈我都要擔(dān)心老頭子自己要追女主了。男主真正的未婚妻也沒做錯(cuò)什么,就是關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻掉了個(gè)鏈子,兒媳的位置就陰差陽(yáng)錯(cuò)被替代了。男主跟個(gè)工具人似的,感覺配不上女主,后半段的戲份甚至沒有老頭子多,到全片最后一分鐘前,這劇根本沒有愛情啊老天!最后一分鐘突然就“被”在一起了!最好老頭子認(rèn)個(gè)干女兒就好了。
聽說這部電影當(dāng)年專給某人配音播放?
很平庸的電影,男女主角之間化學(xué)反應(yīng)欠奉,更像是公公對(duì)兒媳的fascination 歌聲動(dòng)人,加一星
A classic! Great plot, great acting. The dubbing was also very good. 9 out of 10
豆瓣的高分,上譯的配音功不可沒。電影本身一般,劇情俗套,沒達(dá)到神經(jīng)喜劇的高度,當(dāng)然查爾斯勞頓的表演可圈可點(diǎn)。最不滿的是男女主角之間除了吵架斗嘴沒有愛情的萌發(fā)和自然的轉(zhuǎn)變,結(jié)尾為了成全老父的心意而生拉硬拽在一起。怎么看都覺得老爺子和兒媳婦更適合。
非常經(jīng)典的喜劇設(shè)定,香港不止翻拍過,一抓一大把都借用過這種將錯(cuò)就錯(cuò)替身鬧烏龍的結(jié)構(gòu),臺(tái)詞包袱戲味十足,配角也個(gè)個(gè)活靈活現(xiàn),查爾斯·勞頓飾演的大富豪實(shí)在神妙,不但調(diào)皮睿智風(fēng)頭完全壓過兒子,跟準(zhǔn)兒媳的對(duì)手戲更是化學(xué)反應(yīng)炸裂,一顰一笑無(wú)窮韻味在其中,以至于我一度以為他倆會(huì)走到一起,也不耽誤兒子跟未婚妻繼續(xù)好,多么皆大歡喜,只是估計(jì)礙于當(dāng)時(shí)的銀幕風(fēng)氣難以如愿,結(jié)尾歡喜冤家硬湊一對(duì)就比較倉(cāng)促牽強(qiáng),而把戲份極少的未婚妻硬生生趕走也未免太不近人情。
Deanna Durbin的歌聲太美了,老爺子好可愛~~~至于男主么……天然呆一個(gè)嗷~~~~
這片居然有7.8 劇情相比中國(guó)版要直來直去的多,以至于很多地方都有點(diǎn)推進(jìn)過快而讓人難以理解,中國(guó)版則完整度高一點(diǎn),父親催婚是因?yàn)椴环判膬鹤拥膿衽妓剑湄潏D遺產(chǎn)所以被甩了也罪有應(yīng)得,小護(hù)士好人有好報(bào),結(jié)尾還耍了下父親的小聰明,還是更喜歡中國(guó)版,更能解釋得通
老公公與兒媳婦間無(wú)限的可能性。。。
原配可憐,她并不壞,后面導(dǎo)演為了表現(xiàn)她不好還加那點(diǎn)爛戲
3.5星,帶有歌舞情節(jié)的神經(jīng)喜劇,查爾斯.勞頓的演技狄安娜.德賓的歌喉已經(jīng)足夠撐起一部電影了,結(jié)尾略無(wú)力有點(diǎn)虎頭蛇尾的感覺,但是前面的大部分都很精彩,神經(jīng)度十足笑的人岔氣,勞頓的舞跳的太歡樂了小短腿踢的真麻溜。。。PS家庭醫(yī)生好無(wú)辜(這個(gè)黑色梗一定氣傻了不少醫(yī)生)
誰(shuí)說男女之間不能有純粹的忘年友誼。。。
譯制片贊。黑白那掛里富翁老爹都是救世主!好像一夜風(fēng)流里的老爹。雪茄。沙發(fā)。珠鏈。結(jié)尾爛!為什么妹子不跟老頭子在一起?。蓚€(gè)小年輕功力都不行,風(fēng)頭只屬老頭子一人。跳舞場(chǎng)景和亂蓬劉海都萌翻。
老頭子真不錯(cuò)
雖然現(xiàn)在名頭不大,但幾十年前這劇本翻拍了好幾次,香港六十年代也不記名抄襲了一次(快樂天使),可見多么受歡迎。女主和少爺毫無(wú)火花,最動(dòng)情的對(duì)手戲都是和老頭互動(dòng),真是奇哉怪哉,最后只能歸咎于編劇空有惡趣味但實(shí)在不敢在四十年代玩這么超前的老少配。查爾斯勞頓的表演自然無(wú)得彈,這次演鬼馬老頭已經(jīng)有日后《控方證人》的神采了,偷吃雪茄的戲更是越看越眼熟。80
誤打誤撞成雙對(duì),竇萍嗓音美如鶯
沒想到上譯還配過這么經(jīng)典的一部老片!聽到那些熟悉的聲音,真是太可樂了~男主有點(diǎn)呆哈哈哈…女主美聲音也好聽,但!查爾斯勞頓才是真·男主吧!從一見鐘情、念念不忘、郁郁寡歡、暗中相助、真情告白、默默退出…戀愛里的男人該有的情緒都有了!該做的都做了(并不。。。
胖子演什么像什么
三星半真的滿好的