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Forever Amber

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Forever Amber (1947)

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Reviews Counted:6

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Rotten:5

Average Rating:4.6/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The post WWII screen scorcher based on Kathleen Winsor's novel, a progenitor of the modern romance novel. The big budget bodice buster caused gossip and censorship in its day. The story follows a... The post WWII screen scorcher based on Kathleen Winsor's novel, a progenitor of the modern romance novel. The big budget bodice buster caused gossip and censorship in its day. The story follows a stunningly beautiful peasant girl as she sleeps her way into the British aristocracy. [More]

Starring: Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Revere, Richard Greene

Starring: Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Revere, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Jessica Tandy, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Robert Coote, John Russell, Leo G. Carroll

Director: Otto Preminger, Philip Dunne

Director: Otto Preminger, Philip Dunne
Screenwriter: Ring Lardner, Jerry Cady
Producer: William Perlberg
Composer: David Raksin

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Disappointing adaptation of Kathleen Winsor's lurid best-seller novel.

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01/19/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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While the production was surprisingly lavish (the budget was something around $6.5 million), the film suffers from its inability to detail the eroticism of the story due to 1940s censorship.

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Here is a $4 million (and claimed to be more) picture that looks its cost.

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The film runs for two hours and twenty minutes, which is just about an hour too long considering its repetitious nature and the fact that it is pretty trashy stuff.

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01/28/06
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Preminger's direction lacks the sophisticated lightness of touch that Mitchell Leisen brought to the in some ways similar Kitty.

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01/26/06
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It's a lush Fox production, photographed in Technicolor by the great Leon Shamroy and directed by a wholly uninterested Otto Preminger.

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