CARY GRANT PENNY SERENADE [2000]

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BEAUTIFUL

Wonderful tearjerker.

Just beautyful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Old Phonograph

I laughed and cried...

CARY GRANT PENNY SERENADE [2000]
Starring: Irene Dunne;Cary Grant;Beulah Bondi;Edgar Buchanan;Ann Doran;Eva Lee Kuney;Leonard Willey;Wallis Clark;Walter Soderling;Baby Jane Biffle;Albert Butterfield;Lillian West;Henry Dixon;Nee Wong Jr.;Stanley Brown
Director: George Stevens
Manufacturer: delta home entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00004Z302
Release Date: 2000-11-01

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BEAUTIFUL.......2008-02-18

I first saw this film as a child and fell totally in love with it, however, I couldn't remember the title and now after searching for so long I have relocated it. It is a beautiful, heart rending film that will live in your memory forever. Wonderfully acted and thoughtfully handled. I love it.

Wonderful tearjerker........2007-11-01

A really lovely film, beautifully acted. Cary Grant, always the great comic in a lot of his films, really shows that he can act in this film. The scene when he is in front of the Judge would make the hardest of hearts weep for his plight.
If you like old romantic black and whites, this is a gem.

Just beautyful!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-09-11

This movie is one of my absolute favourites of all times...it's funny, sweet and also soooo sad! And absolute classic!!!!

An Old Phonograph.......2005-04-22

George Stevens framed this entire film using flasbacks, an old phonograph playing the songs from various stages in the lives of two people who fall in love and are nearly torn apart by tragedy. The screenplay of Morrie Ryskind based on a story by Martha Cheavens is sentimental and heartwrenching. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make it all seem real and director Stevens gives the film a romantic glow which makes this one of the most fondly remembered films of the 1940's.

The story opens as Julie (Dunne) is getting ready to leave Roger (Grant) because of the pain caused by a tragedy in their lives he can not talk about so that they can begin to heal. She laments that they simply don't need each other anymore. When she finds an old stack of records she begins to trace the various stages of their love through the memories recalled by each song.

Roger (Grant) sees Julie (Dunne) through the window of the record store where she works, and though he doesn't have a phonograph player, he ends up buying a big package of songs just so he can spend time with her. He pretends he is going her way after work and it isn't long before she becomes "his funny little redhead." There are some wonderful scenes like Julie and Roger sitting in a cabana by the beach reading fortune cookies which gives the story a very romantic atmosphere.

When Roger, who is a reporter, has a chance to go to Tokyo for a few years, the two get married and have a truncated honeymoon on a train which results in them becoming prospective parents. But an earthquake takes their happiness away and prevents them from having another child. Only when Roger gets an inheritance do they move back to the states and consider adoption while he starts the small town paper he has always dreamed of. What follows is warm, sweet and heartbreaking, and will result in Julie standing at the phonograph as she recalls their lives together before leaving.

Whether their love and marriage can be saved is only resolved in the last few moments of this beautiful film. Edgar Buchanan as Apple Jack is absolutely wonderful as he lends both support and humor to this true screen classic. Beulah Bondi is also memorable as the kind Miss Oliver, going out of her way to create a family for two people who love each other. A warm and sentimental film every film lover needs to own.

I laughed and cried..........2004-03-17

The film opens with a woman (Irene Dunne) playing LPs that mark important events in her life and the viewer is drawn into her romance with Cary Grant's character, their marriage and their experiences of parenthood and loss.

Cary Grant's talent for comedy is much in evidence during the film but so is the more dramatic side of his acting. Irene Dunne matches him and they give us the perfect pairing for a film that really puts you through the wringer. I must have seen it about 10 times and I cry twice every single time.

If you like weepies then you'll like this; if you like comedies then you'll like this; if you like Cary Grant or Irene Dunne then you'll like this. Unless you're made out of stone, you'll like this. :)

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Yet another variation.......2005-09-06

This time Allan Quatermain (Patrick Swayze) and Elizabeth Maitland (Alison Doody) go after her father Dr. Sam Maitland (John Standing). He is held prisoner by nasty natives and they want his key to King Solomon's mine. They are accompanied by a not so mysterious native Umbopa (Sidede Onyulo). On the way they are encumbered be some bad guys with their own agendas.

I will not go into detail but those loyal to the book and/or familiar with the Stewart Granger version may be disappointed. Thos uneducated may enjoy it to the end.

Very few videos can match or best a book. And this one does not. Yet it does top most of the others attempts as a variation on the story. Being long enough it could have been the book. But it is someone else's idea of what we want to see. This is well worth watching as its own variation on the story they added a few twists turns and characters. They are probably trying to as an Indiana Jones feel. Alison Doody was in the Indiana Jones movie.

Swayze is Indiana!!.......2005-07-11

I watched this film purely becausse I'm a great Swayze fan, and I wasn't disappointed.... by him or the film. If you are after something along the lines of Indiana jones.. this is for you.

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