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Come September on DVD (1961)

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Average rating: 63%
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3.0
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Starring: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak
Director: Robert Mulligan
Studio: UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time: 109 mins
Certificate: PG
User collections: a few pretty good classic films worth a glance
Genres: Comedy
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
Released: 04/04/2005

Brief synopsis of Come September

A successful New York businessman must battle to keep his girlfriend and his sanity when he discovers that his Italian villa has been turned into a hotel.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

When wealthy American businessman Rock Hudson visits his Italian villa in July, instead of September as usual, he discovers it is being run as a hotel in his absence. His major-domo (Walter Slezak), glamorous Gina Lollobrigida and young newlyweds Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee (just married in real life, too) become involved in the comic confusions that follow. Directed with appropriate insouciance by Robert Mulligan and played with easy charm by Hudson, who had proved his comedy credentials in Pillow Talk, the result is an inconsequential but amusing movie that is typical of the style and approach of early 1960s Hollywood.

Halliwell's Film Guide

Clumsy sex farce with lush trimmings and generation gap asides; effort more noticeable than achievement.

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Rated - 5 starsMade me laugh so much

A customer from the New Forest , 24/10/2005

I loved this film, has my dream car in it as well, and it's the movie where bobby darrin met Sandra Dee, it's just old fashioned and romantic, just my cup of tea.

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Rated - 3 starsIf you're a fan of the 50s and 60s you'll like it.

TonyR from London , 27/05/2005

Typical early 60s comedy with all the candy.

Story is of a millionaire (Rock Hudson) who comes back to his holiday home in Italy to find out while he's been away the staff have secretly been renting it out as a hotel.

What's more a group of teenage boys (led by Bobby Darin) are hoping to crash the place to get in with a group of teenage girls (including Sandra Dee).

Whether you like the film will largely will depend on whether you're a fan of the 50s/early sixties and the people who defined that generation. If you're not, you may find the film drags after a while as there's little by way of great gags.

If you're interested in the era, you may want to rent the film 'Beyond the Sea' which is a biography of Booby Darin. The making of Come September features in the film, so it's interesting to compare the depiction of the movie with the actual thing.

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Rated - 5 starsAll Time Classic

Peter MacKerracher from Glasgow , 06/07/2005

Absolutely fantastic film. They just don't make comedies like this these days. Superb performances from Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Bobby Darin & Sandra Dee. Great locations including Milan & Rome. There is a noticable chemistry between Bobby Darin & Sandra Dee who first met on location for this movie and later married.

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Rated - 5 starsSuper Film!!!

A customer from London, England , 11/11/2005

This is a really fun film, with Rock Hudson at his absolute comedy best! The location is beautiful, the clothes are beautiful - all round great entertainment. A film I could watch time and time again.

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Rated - 3 starsIf you're a fan of the 50s and 60s you'll like it.

TonyR from London , 27/05/2005

Typical early 60s comedy with all the candy.

Story is of a millionaire (Rock Hudson) who comes back to his holiday home in Italy to find out while he's been away the staff have secretly been renting it out as a hotel.

What's more a group of teenage boys (led by Bobby Darin) are hoping to crash the place to get in with a group of teenage girls (including Sandra Dee).

Whether you like the film will largely will depend on whether you're a fan of the 50s/early sixties and the people who defined that generation. If you're not, you may find the film drags after a while as there's little by way of great gags.

If you're interested in the era, you may want to rent the film 'Beyond the Sea' which is a biography of Booby Darin. The making of Come September features in the film, so it's interesting to compare the depiction of the movie with the actual thing.

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Rated - 5 starsAll Time Classic

Peter MacKerracher from Glasgow , 06/07/2005

Absolutely fantastic film. They just don't make comedies like this these days. Superb performances from Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Bobby Darin & Sandra Dee. Great locations including Milan & Rome. There is a noticable chemistry between Bobby Darin & Sandra Dee who first met on location for this movie and later married.

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