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Bedtime Story
1964
In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on the French Riviera. The pair join a playful competition to see who is best at the job, and the target is cute Janet Walker (.. Read more
| Starring | Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman |
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| Director | Ralph Levy |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Bedtime Story
In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on the French Riviera. The pair join a playful competition to see who is best at the job, and the target is cute Janet Walker (Shirley Jones), better known as the "American Soap Queen." Who can extract $25,000 first
| Starring | Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman |
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| Director | Ralph Levy |
| Studio | ORBIT MEDIA LTD. |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Jul 2004 Production year: 1964 |
| Format | DVD |
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Marlon Brando — the ultimate method actor — and David Niven — the ultimate exponent of relaxed, intuitive style — make for an unlikely double act, but the results are absolutely hilarious. They play two rival conmen on the French Riviera who try and trick TV soap star Shirley Jones out of her riches. Besides Niven's irresistible debonair charm, we have Brando's extraordinary catalogue of accents and disguises, notably his mentally retarded, Ruritanian prince Ruprecht. It's by no means a perfect comedy, and it's marred by some phoney sets and back projection, but it deserves to be known in its own right rather than just as the basis for the Michael Caine/Steve Martin remake, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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A fairly lively script is defeated by dull handling, but performances and backgrounds are attractive.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
If anybody has seen Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, then it is quit remarkable to watch the original. The storyline is so similar that even some of the old jokes are kept in. Also the actors have been almost identically chosen. Although normally it would be very difficult to draw parallels between David Niven and Micheal Caine, especially so between Marlon Brando and Steven Martin, it's almost impossible to tell the difference when you've watched these two movies.
Generally good fun movie. Different ending to the later version. -
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
If anybody has seen Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, then it is quit remarkable to watch the original. The storyline is so similar that even some of the old jokes are kept in. Also the actors have been almost identically chosen. Although normally it would be very difficult to draw parallels between David Niven and Micheal Caine, especially so between Marlon Brando and Steven Martin, it's almost impossible to tell the difference when you've watched these two movies.
Generally good fun movie. Different ending to the later version. -
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In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays ... -