feaito Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 This gorgeous film is also scheduled in March to honour the wonderful Claudette Colbert as Star of the Month: Tovarich means Comrade Delightful sophisticated `continental' comedy (kind of a `reverse' Ninotchka), so entertaining indeed, that when it ends you have the feeling that it moved along too swiftly, keeping you wanting at least 30 minutes more of film! French born actors, Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert work together wonderfully well, under Anatole Litvak's very good direction, in this engaging comedy, based upon a french play adapted by Robert E. Sherwood himself, about two penniless members of the highest rank Russian nobility (escaped from the 1917 Russian Revolution) currently living in Paris, who masquerade as commoners in order to be hired as servants of an aristocratic household, full of sort-of-zany and bizarre characters. Isabel Jeans and Melville Cooper are perfectly cast as the aristocratic couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dupont, who hire them, absolutely unaware of their new butler's and maid's pedigrees. Basil Rathbone, as always, gives an excellent performance as Comissar Gorotchenko, a very `special' guest at a lavish dinner party arranged by the Duponts, one of the funniest (and at the same time, most dramatic) sequences of the movie. Boyer and Colbert are so utterly charming that one does not wonder why the Duponts and both, their daughter and son, are completely conquered and taken by the `undercover' Royal Russians, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Boyer) and Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov (Colbert), known by them as Michel & Tina. This was the third and last pairing of its leading stars, who had previously worked together successfully at Paramount Pictures, in `The Man From Yesterday' (1932) and `Private Worlds' (1935). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 This film is specifically scheduled on: 03/14/2005 08:00 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 Hope everyone will be able to see this gem, Sadly I erased it by mistake from the Tape in which I had recorded it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainablue1 Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I watched it for the first time ever feaito, it is now up there as one of my favorites! Thanks for the heads up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
path40a Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 feaito & moviejoe, I had a chance to watch this one yesterday and really enjoyed it. I laughed out loud during the scenes when Colbert's and Boyer's character had charmed the four French family members such that they were all "like puppy dogs" in their presence. Funny, funny stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 Glad you enjoyed it pals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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