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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Forever Amber (1947)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:1
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... [More]
Starring: Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Revere, Richard Greene
Director: Otto Preminger, Philip Dunne
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Reviews for Forever Amber
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Top CriticThe 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.
01/28/06
Disappointing adaptation of Kathleen Winsor's lurid best-seller novel.
01/19/08
Preminger's direction lacks the sophisticated lightness of touch that Mitchell Leisen brought to the in some ways similar Kitty.
01/26/06
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.
10/23/07
Here is a $4 million (and claimed to be more) picture that looks its cost.
10/23/07
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