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Bedtime Story [Region 2]

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This movie, very unfortunately, is out of print. The only "brand new" DVD version of it that you can get is from some outfit out of England that made a pretty crappy copy of it, according to the reviews I read on Amazon UK. And by the way you can buy that version of it cheaper on that website.

This is a very special movie to me. I first saw it when I was at home, sick with a horrible sore throat, and it made me forget all my pain as I laughed all the way through. Then I rented it again a few years later to watch with a guy that I had started dating, kind of to test his sense of humor. We both laughed so hard that we cried. And you know, I think this movie cast some magic between us that day because we're still together, years and years later.

It's a great, funny, clever, and sometimes silly, movie. I don't know why it has been panned by the critics in the past, perhaps they weren't used to seeing Marlon Brando in a comic role. Both Marlon Brando and David Niven are hilarious in this film and their chemistry is genius. You can see that they are both having a great time making this movie. I read in Marlon Brando's biography that he had to step out of the room many times while filming because he was laughing so hard. And sometimes when I watch it I think I can hear him in the backround laughing.

But I can't just take it down from my private collection and watch it, I have to go to the only video store that I know that carries it, miles away, rent it, and then watch it. Why? Why are so many Marlon Brando movies out of print? One of the greatest American actors -- and a good portion of his films are out of print? It makes me think that the industry is trying to punish him for his rebellious ways - could it really be that ridiculous?

Anyways, this is turning into more of a blog than a review. All I have left to say is REPRINT THIS MOVIE!!

See this movie AND THEN see "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," a remake of "Bedtime Story." I think you'll agree that the remake is inferior and the original is FAR funnier. I cry with laughter every time I see the scene in which David Niven whips Marlon Brando!

Who was that wise moviemaker who said, "Don't remake GOOD movies; remake BAD movies"? Sam Goldwyn? In any event, "Bedtime Story" DIDN'T need to be remade.

I was ten when the movie came out, my dad encouraged me to watch it years later when it played on television. I was hooked...

Brando is hilarious as the American GI in Europe, an egotist, sometimes crude, a hustler, preying on gorgeous women through sympathy, his good looks and his almost pathetic, hilarious charm....David Niven is the slick, cool, rich charming Englishman and yes, he's also as conniving as Brando. Though Niven is a bit smarter than "Freddy" (Brando) - It makes for a weird but funny and brief partnership between Niven and Brando, to seduce & fleece some very rich, sometimes beautiful, but always naive & trusting women.

Thus begins an even funnier competition between Brando and Niven, as the movie really gets rolling now...as each character underestimates the other in cons and setups, then ultimately each outwit the other...all the way until the final twist of an ironic and funny ending to the film.

A whole lot of fun along the way.....

One of the funniest, zany but also one of the truly well written comedies to come out of that early 60's era, (1964) or any era...It's a must see...Accept no substitutes, i.e. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"!

If you can discount the era in which this comedy was made, please avail yourself of a howl. This is made for every dashing, good looking scoundral like myself that ever preyed on the chicks. GET it, and laugh out loud. Women out there.... get this as a way to protect yourself from good looking guys. Men.... get this movie to learn tips on how to get gals that have not watched this movie!

Either way, if you have been "on the move" for even a short while, watch this movie on the basics of women hunting.

The dvd looks like it was transfered from an old vhs tape. If you haven't seen this movie, go ahead and buy it. It never comes on tv.

Worth buying just to see the "Great" Marlon Brando playing a dim witted but endearing playboy to David Nivens' suave, elegant and debonoir character . The original version of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", Bedtime Story follows the amusing antics of two "gold digging" scoundrels competing for the favors and fortunes of wealthy widows in Europe's playgrounds of the rich.

I have always enjoyed this movie which was redone as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". Unfortunately, the picture quality as transferred to DVD is so poor that it is not worth watching the tape.

this movie is my favorite... because of Marlon Bradon. what an actor.. This item was shipped to me quickly and had no problems being used...

This movie was funny. This film is also the perfect example of how critics can mislead viewers. Is this a great movie? Well not really, but it is quite entertaining. Marlon Brando plays Freddy Benson, a American Army officer who uses false stories about his sick grandmother to take advantage of women. David Niven plays Lawrence Jameson, a British man who pretends to be royalty to take advantage of women. The two eventually collide in a battle of the players to see who is better. Their subject is Janet Walker(Shirley Jones), a sweet American woman they both meet. The plot of this film is very simple and even repetitive at times. However, Brando and Niven make it work. Both are hillarious and they have great chemistry. Jones is clearly out of her league with these two, but she tries. Indeed the films great weakness was the lack of punch at the conclusion. It just ended. Where it failed Dirty Rotten Scoundrals succeeded. It was based on the script for Bedtime Story and is a better film. Watch this film, enjoy it, and then see Dirty Rotten Scoundrals, and enjoy it more. The critics should agree with that.

The movie is excellent, but the dvd was formatted so I could only watch it on my computer.
I would like to have known that prior to purchase. Otherwise, no complaints.