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Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by director Richard Brooks. In his last film as an MGM contractee, Van Johnson plays reporter Charles Wills, who while covering the VE Day celebrations in Paris, meets and falls in love with the gorgeous Helen Ellsworth (Elizabeth Taylor). Soon afterward, Charles and Helen are married. Charles supports his wife with a low-paying wire service job, devoting
Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.
Jan 1, 1954 Wide
Jul 14, 1998
Scott Entertainment
All Critics (7) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
This picture tries to please everybody. It won't.
Top CriticAn engrossing romantic drama that tells a good story with fine performances and an overall honesty of dramatic purpose.
What is to be said of such a picture? The story is trite. The motivations are thin. The writing is glossy and pedestrian. The acting is pretty much forced.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's tragic love story was brought to the screen with surprising vitality under Brooks' expert hand.
Technicolor Parisian travelogue, MGM-style, that barely skims the Fitzgerald source material.
An enjoyable (if heavy-handed) melodrama.
Way cheesy, but Widmark and Malden make it watchable.
September 6, 2009Super Reviewer
A classic Hollywood tear-jerker. I may have to think again about Elizabeth Taylor's acting. Mostly, she leaves me flat. Being a beautiful child can only last so long. In this one, you can see that Donna Reed is the more subtle actress, the more smooth in her transition between moods -- displaying more ability to
December 24, 2008Super Reviewer
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