Product Details

• Actors: Anthony Quinn, Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Gigi Proietti, Adriana Asti
• Directors: Mauro Bolognini
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (PCM Stereo)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Simitar Ent.
• DVD Release Date: August 29, 1997
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304610378
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,429 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Inheritance" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A true diamond in the rough. Pay no attention to the glossy romance cover for this film--inside is a great little movie. Based on an 1885 novel by Gaetano Carlo Chelli, it stars Dominique Sanda (who also appeared in The Conformist and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis). She plays a scheming gold-digger who has her eyes on the prize of the Fiormonti fortune. The money was made by Papa Fiormonti (played by Anthony Quinn), a lousy SOB who in the first scene disowns his three adult children. Sanda marries the most loutish child but is soon having an affair with the rakish one. It's a great, evil (and oddly sympathetic) performance, and for her role Sanda won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 1976. Even the DVD quality can't mask a poor transfer, however, as this film still has a grainy quality, but the luster of this Machiavellian tale still shines through. --Keith Simanton

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie, Really Bad Transfer, August 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Inheritance (DVD)

Four stars for the movie, zero for the transfer. There is a good story in there, coupled with good performances. Overall a good movie. The DVD transfer is really, really bad. Pan and scan with a disturbingly ugly result. Grain, bad color. Watching it on a large screen is outright unpleasant. Did I say the sound is bad too (dubbed). Looks like Simitar Video copied a VHS tape to DVD. Simitar Video should not be in the DVD transfer business. Hope someone else brings this otherwise fine movie to DVD - properly!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Keeping It in the Family, August 4, 2010

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Stefanie Casey (The Cultural Sojourner) "Stef" (Southern California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Inheritance (DVD)

Wicked! Dominique Sanda is quite the seductress. This film deserves a better film treatment, an Italian director's cut, instead of this poorly transferred, expurgated, U.S dub release.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars artistic, April 2, 2009

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Teresito P. Ocampo "beetmoz" (philippines) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Inheritance (DVD)

main actors and actress (D>S>) were terrific; story gives a lesson about greed (recall the subprime mess); setting and photography is also highly rated.