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Darling Lili [DVD] [1970]
enlarge	Director: Blake Edwards Actors: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£9.99~~ Buy New: £2.95 as of 25/11/2009 07:56 GMT details You Save: £7.04 (70%) New (9) Used (8) from £1.99 Seller: selectcheaper Rating: 8 reviews Sales Rank: 12179 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 137 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5014437921536 ASIN: B000L42MW4 Theatrical Release Date: 1970 Release Date: March 12, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next » At Last DARLING LILI in It's Complete Roadshow Version March 25, 2007 D. L. Jones 22 out of 22 found this review helpful Thank you Paramount UK for finally giving us this beautiful film in it's entirety. Living in the US, I was extremely disappointed by the butchered 2005 release of this gem in my country. But now I have it, even though I have to watch it on a multi-region DVD player. The transfer and sound are gorgeous. Better than you would ever expect for a film of this age. Here for all to see are the musical numbers, complete and unedited. You can also enjoy the complete seduction scene in the country inn and appreciate Julie's impeccable comedic timing. I just wish they had included the production short, "Darling Julie," prepared at the time of this film's production. Also, a still gallery would have been nice. For you American's reading this, owning this treasure is worth every penny of your investment in buying a multi-region DVD player. For you Brits, run out and buy this beauty. And, can anyone explain to me why Paramount released a cut version to the US and the complete version to Europe? A Surprisingly Superb Film July 15, 2007 W. Strutte (England) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful Forget the critical condemnation of this film. It really is special. I first saw it at it's UK original release at the Odeon in the Haymarket, London. At the time Julie was totally out of fashion. No doubt her none appearance at the UK premiere of STAR! at the Dominion Cinema did little to help. She was too busy filming Darling Lili in Ireland. A poor excuse and one that led to her disappearance from the screen for quite a few years. Her film career was ruined. But Darling Lili is well worth seeing. It is beautifully produced and very fine entertainment. Great film. August 17, 2008 trevor walters 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Darling Lily is a film that I remember fondly. I saw it in 70mm on first release and loved it then and I still do on seeing it again on DVD. Not the US cut version but this the complete original release version. My only complaint is why is the intermission not there. The film runs straight through. But that's just a little hiccup that doesn't in any way take the enjoyment out of this great film. Blue Max - The Musical Version May 2, 2008 B. C. Swinbank (Surrey, United Kingdom) Okay,okay you're saying I'm nuts well maybe I am, but if you enjoyed the film The Blue Max you have to have this film, if simply for the flying.These are directed by Anthony Squire, the man behind the flying in Blue Max. Many of the same aeroplanes and locations are used. There is at least one full size replica SE5a,plus about four 3/4 size replica SE5s, with odd markings, however to me, they work suprisingly well. To be honest there is a real world of difference in seeing real planes on film and seeing CGI, as in Flyboys, which just looked like a Combat Flight Simulator game....As for the rest of the film,the colour and print is mostly very clean and bright. Rock Hudson is too old really for a pilot, but with the songs and light drama least the wife might watch it too. I'd have beefed up the drama and not gone for the comedy, but there we go. br / br / br / How Did It Flop? Much Worse Stuff Earn Today! February 15, 2009 chatvarin (England) How much more lovely this film is than I had any expectation of! One might suspect that a war thriller such as this one was only forced to have songs in it because of Julie Andrews's presence, rendering it a patchy musical thriller. What a misgiving that is; it's not a musical in any sense, doesn't try to be, and as far as thriller goes it clearly does not aspire to be one saturated with mystery either. br / br /It really is a romance set in the time of war, with romance first and war as the circumstance. It is not the sweetest love story ever told, but it is crisply told. Granted, the writing is not always of the highest quality, but it fairly consistently is. It quite clearly is intent on not being a war suspense story, but it is not completely void of intrigue, and whatever there is certainly left me wondering, neither alternative glaringly patently the truth. In fact the film never (or did I miss it?) reveals what Operation Crepe Suzette is at all, and how was Major Larrabee passing any vital military information through Lili to the German when everything we see him telling Lili is verified as lies in the film? br / br /If you want masculine suspense thriller then "Darling Lili" is not the place to look for it. It's the tangle with wartime espionage that the romance between Lili and Larrabee gets into that is the heart of this film. I regret that I find Julie Andrews too radiant a match for Rock Hudson, and although Dame Julie is completely natural as a lover Hudson seems wooden - neither convincingly sophisticated nor subtle. Once again Dame Julie Andrews really does literally carry the film. I think she was a little too old by this time for the strip-tease scene - but if you hadn't done it before it'd be better not to leave it until too late no? br / br /The music instrumental or vocal is, simply put, unbelievably gorgeous. Some authentic WWI songs are featured, adding authentic touches of historical atmosphere to the film. The new songs written for the film feel strangely tame when one identifies Dame Julie with supple and effortless vocal acrobatic, but nonetheless sparkle. All musical numbers, if you can call them that at all, except one, as in "Star!", appear in the context of performance. Only the film's main theme song, "Whistling Away the Dark", which becomes Lili's theme music (much more so than the more superficial eponymous theme "Darling Lili"), really has direct pertinence to the main story. For musical haters the presence of songs should not matter; neither are songs used to tell the story nor are they draggingly long. They are not staged in the grand manner of musicals, the uncluttered instrumentation plenteously spacious to showcase Dame Julie's performance and the choreography never gets larger-than-life. They add to the atmosphere of the film and Dame Julie performs as well as at any other time. br / br /Visually the film serves up some very beautiful pictures. The set is consistently beautiful. The same costume designer as for Dame Julie's wardrobe in "Star!" worked for this film, and the period costumes are just as dazzling and nostalgic, only more subdued. Their colours certainly are employed to the best result in the chromatic dynamic of the film's visual. The three most beautiful - very different - sequences (well actually four) that come to mind are the music hall performances of "Whistling Away the Dark" at the beginning and the end of the film, Lili's waking up to a house of red roses and when Lili and Larrabee join a school of children walking hands in hands in crocodiles singing a patriotic-sounding French songs in the French countryside. On the whole the air fight scenes are the most dire, the action generally feeling dragged and the scenery looking uncannily British for battles that are supposed to be taking high above the fields of Flanders. br / br /I felt the film could do very well without its Pink-Panther-esque comic, especially of the two French Army Intellingence officers, which, however slight, leaves the film lacking in the grit that would make it so much better. However, noone should allow that to dissuade him from this neat little weaving of a war romance. br / br /The DVD doesn't come with much, just a trailer. Yet I commend its neat and clean design throughout - the case, the menus. The naming of scenes is really a nice little thing. Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next »

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