The Barefoot Contessa |  | Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Valentina Cortese
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  37 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1002029D
ISBN: 0792850092
UPC: 027616862693
EAN: 9780792850090
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1954
Release Date: June 19, 2001
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Product Description
Hasbeen movie director harry dawes gets a new lease on his career when kirk edwards hires him to write and direct a film.. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 08/20/2002 Starring: Humphrey Bogart Edmond Obrien Run time: 130 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
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 The Barren Contessa October 27, 2009
Paul C. Castagno
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
More a film of thought and sharp-edged dialogue or speechifying than plot or character. The shifting POVs across the Contessa's admirers define the sprawling and overlong narrative. Bogart's removal as a love interest diminishes the possible chemistry that might have ignited the film. What we get instead, is Maria Vargas being pursued by a series of ruthless and sullen rich men without a grain of real or palpable passion. In fact, all the leading men are rendered impotent in one way or another, fueling an unsettling uneasiness that grinds us along. With Ava and Bogart as two aloof characters at the film's center, our attention turns to the churn of ambience and mise-en-scene that sets the historical framework, providing some insight into the vacuity of the international set. With it's misanthropy and cynicism so unrelenting, it's a tough go that leaves a chill in the air colder than the death of its leading lady.
 fantastic Ava Gardner June 9, 2009
John H. Johnson III (New Mexico)
What a movie and a great cast, Ava Gardner at her best. The movie still holds you until the last frame!
A very strange twisted fairytale May 11, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When a Spanish Gypsy dancer becomes a Hollywood queen,
the wolves come out of the woodwork.
When her mother is killed by her father in self-defense
the whole story of her life of poverty comes out.
It is the South American rich man who changes everything for
the actress and her director friend.
It is what happens after she meets her prince charming that makes this an anti-Cinderella fairytale.
I missed this when it came out and never saw it play on TV.
The acting, plot, setting and costumes are all very good.
I actually liked this movie with the strange ending.
I forgot..... April 10, 2009
R. S. P. Lee (New York, birthplace of the world.)
...how great this movie was! The ending surprised me (forgot the ending), and the chemistry between Bogart & Gardner touched me greatly. The dvd was perfect.
OVER THE TOP July 15, 2008
Mark Banning (Denver)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Usual Hollywood formula - rich boy finds poor but beautiful and talented girl, rich boy marries girl, beautiful and talented girl discovers that
rich husband has nothing working below the belt, rich boy finds wife and stable boy in barn together- and shoots them both...
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