Product Details

• Actors: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman, Aram Stephan
• Directors: Ralph Levy
• Writers: Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
• Producers: Robert Arthur, Stanley Shapiro
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 12, 1994
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301423704
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,581 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Please movie studio, reissue this movie!, June 26, 2006

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A reader (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bedtime Story [Region 2] (DVD)

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!!

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars MUCH Better Than "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"!, March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bedtime Story [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brando said, "It was the most fun I ever had making a film"..., February 5, 2007

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Al Baston - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bedtime Story [Region 2] (DVD)

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"!