Product Details

• Actors: David Niven, William Holden, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully
• Directors: Otto Preminger
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Bros.
• DVD Release Date: October 21, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002TOL4AK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,855 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Moon Is Blue" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Warner Bros. Digital Dist Release Date: 06/22/2011

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holden at his most gorgeous self..., June 27, 2000

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Pauline Stafford "Nyoka the Jungle Girl" (San Diego, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Moon Is Blue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Anyone wanting to know what was considered "racy" film making in the early 1950s should see this movie. (It was "condemned" by the Catholic Church which usually meant huge box office receipts.) Two people meet by chance at the top of the Empire State Building, an architect (Holden) and a young, inexperienced, naive girl (Maggie McNamara). Written for the screen from a hugely successful Broadway play, it could be compared to a Moliere hysterically funny, yet poignant boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl story line. The word "virgin" is cast around casually and Dawn Addams runs around nude in the city (well-covered by an enormous fur coat). New York City is the real star of this movie and when I first saw it as a teenager (much to my parents' displeasure) I promised myself to live there one day. Maggie McNamara never got past the type casting (the definitive ingenue)and never had much of a career afterward, but what a great role for a young woman! As my heading reads, William Holden was in his glory..a heart throb for every young girl. Also cast was David Niven...playing David Niven...as the "other guy" (in more recent times the Tony Randall role). No one before or since could deliver an innocuous line such as, "You could've knocked me over with a feather," and make it hilarious like David Niven. See this black and white classic and try to understand how sensuality is so much more effective in films when done with subtle care and great writing.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars William Holden as his most gorgeous self...., June 14, 2000

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This review is from: The Moon Is Blue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I couldn't believe that no "customer" had reviewed this film...the biggest shocker of 1953 and condemned by the Catholic Church! I was just out of high school and couldn't WAIT to see this movie. I went alone as none of my friends took movies as seriously as I did in those years. No one could say, "You could've knocked me over with a feather," as well as David Niven. More shocking than the utterance of "virgin," was Dawn Adams running around nude under her mink coat. The New York setting added to this wonderful story....a true antidote to teenagers' lives in hick towns waiting to leave home to meet a William Holden to jazz up their existence....nearly a half century ago!!! Think of it...not ONE sex scene, yet it got the hormones churning from the opening atop the Empire State Building to the closing when "boy gets girl."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A ONCE CONTROVERSIAL FILM., March 30, 2002

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"scotsladdie" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Moon Is Blue [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A fairly amusing sex farce from nearly half a century ago features the unusual, now-forgotton (and ultimately tragic -- a suicide victim) Maggie McNamara, who is courted, swooned and wooed by both David Niven and Bill Holden. David Niven's career at the time this film was made was in serious jeopardy; he had a contract break-up with the legendary Samuel Goldwyn which was anything but cordial and his pictures prior to this weren't much of any consequence (a good example is a silly, inane "comedy" entitled THE LADY SAYS NO, 1951). The notoriously tyrannical Otto Preminger suddenly came to Niven's rescue ( it was rather like being snatched from drowning by King Kong!). The director was noted for enjoying the experience of striking terror into the hearts of his cast members and technicians alike. Niven emerged unscathed, however, and was ultimately deeply grateful to Preminger for casting him as the middle aged playboy. Niven does a commendable job and there is a certain chemistry between the three leads. THE MOON IS BLUE outraged many in its day by using such words as "virgin" and "seduce". In light of what's allowed in films today, this is hilarious. In 1953, however, it was condemned by the Catholic Church and banned by the censor. Aided by distributors, United Artists and director Otto Preminger defied the ban and released the film -- the first time the American censor had been so defied.