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Darling Lili [DVD]

Julie Andrews (Actor), Rock Hudson (Actor), Blake Edwards (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Genre	Musicals
Format	Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Contributor	Doreen Keogh, William Peter Blatty, Rock Hudson, Michael Witney, Lance Percival, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jeremy Kemp, Carl Duering, Blake Edwards, Gloria Paul, Julie Andrews, Andr Maranne, Bernard Kay, Jacques Marin See more
Language	English, German
Runtime	1 hour and 47 minutes

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A German spy masquerades as a singer during World War I to obtain secrets from an American pilot and she begins to fall in love with him.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: G
Release Date: 25-OCT-2005
Media Type: DVD

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A welcome new DVD life might be in store for Darling Lili, an underrated film whose reputation is mostly locked as one of the big, expensive flops that helped reshape Hollywood at the turn of the seventies. Julie Andrews was still at the height of her popularity when she began shooting this musical-comedy-drama with new husband Blake Edwards directing; budget overruns, studio interference, and the changing box-office climate all doomed the movie's disastrous 1970 release.

Even fans of the picture would have to admit that the weird storyline had something to do with it, too. Andrews plays a World War I singer in London and Paris who's actually a spy for the Germans (part of her cover is singing popular patriotic songs, such as "Pack Up Your Troubles" and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"). Her new assignment is to get information from a famous pilot (Rock Hudson), but naturally she falls in love with him along the way. The movie's WWI aerial sequences (shot in Ireland) are a little like the film's approach: soaring, graceful, and disconnected from any carnage that might be happening in the trenches. However, if you can appreciate Edwards' slapstick prowess and commitment to the screwball-romance style of filmmaking, there's much to admire.

For one thing, Edwards photographs Julie Andrews with the loving devotion of a new husband. For another, his feeling for the widescreen frame as a big playground for lush color and busy action is well-served by the DVD release--this is a visually gorgeous movie. The new songs by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer include the superb opening number--evocatively shot--called "Whistling in the Dark." The DVD is billed as a "Director's Cut," but is shorter than the original release, a result of Edwards himself reportedly retooling the picture after 1970 (the disc has a whopping hour's worth of additional scenes). Whichever way it's sliced, Darling Lili was always going to be a strangely mixed movie, with Pink Panther-style bits sitting next to Mata Hari skullduggery. Fans of Julie Andrews and the vanished elegance of visual storytelling will find much to savor nevertheless. --Robert Horton

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ G (General Audience)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches; 2.88 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Blake Edwards
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Michael Witney
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000ANVPT2
Writers ‏ : ‎ Blake Edwards, William Peter Blatty
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2022

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I read the negative reviews about the director's cut, but I saw this movie so long ago that I could only recall snippets of it, about Julie Andrews playing a German spy. So, the directors cut didn't bother me. Granted, I found the film boring at the beginning because I'm not a fan of slap-stick comedy. But, when the car chases and dog fights started, I sat up and totally enjoyed everything, including the comedy. Conclusion: If you're viewing it with fresh eyes or for the 1st time, I suspect that you'll enjoy it.

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"Often I think this sad old world is whistling in the dark..."

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2005

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DARLING LILI is a positive delight, though sadly the film was a huge box-office flop and virtually sunk Andrews' film career until "10", S.O.B. and VICTOR/VICTORIA came along a decade later. This film stars Andrews as Lili Smith, a beautiful and adored singing star in England who moonlights as a WW1 German spy. One night, "Uncle Kurt" (Jeremy Kemp) gives Lili her latest assignment: Major Bill Larrabee (Rock Hudson). Lili must make Larrabee fall in love with her, and hopefully let slip some important confidential information that could come in handy for the Germans. Once Lili has Bill firmly in her sights, it becomes clear that this is not her usual "kiss-and-tell" seduction job....she has truly fallen in love with him.

Julie Andrews simply glows as Lili, and delivers a deft performance. Although she indeed plays a spy working for the "Enemy", the audience oddly enough loves her anyway and wants her to escape in the tension-filled final sequence. Rock Hudson is a comical and romantic delight as Larrabee. The support cast includes Lance Percival, Gloria Paul, Jacques Marin, Doreen Keogh and Bernard Kay.

The musical score by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer is truly beautiful, one of the best of the entire decade. When Andrews emerges out of the blackness in the first scene to sing "Whistling Away the Dark", it is indeed one of those chill-inducing moments. Andrews' musicality in this film was quite accomplished; she sings with a smokey timbre in her voice which she rarely displayed before or after DARLING LILI. Other choice moments come in the Music Hall-schmaltz of "I'll Give You Three Guesses" and the sobering "Girl in No Man's Land". Costume designer Donald Brooks decks Julie out in a splendid array of period-perfect ensembles (he also costumed Julie in STAR!).

The film was nominated for 3 Academy Awards that year: Best Costume Design (Donald Brooks); Best Song "Whistling Away the Dark" (music Henry Mancini, lyrics Johnny Mercer); and Best Music Scoring (Henry Mancini).

I simply adore this film. DARLING LILI was never made available on videocassette, and appeared only rarely on cable. Director Blake Edwards, in a bid to make the film more palatable for audiences following it's disastrous theatrical release, re-cut the film in a "Director's Cut", and that is the version you get on this DVD. The original theatrical length was 136 mins (the "Director's Cut" runs for a brisk 107 mins, not counting Overture and Exit Music sequences). The transfer is very sharp and the audio is offered in both 5.1 and 2-channel stereo. The cut scenes are all offered as bonus material, so in effect the entire film is here, albeit in pieces. Paramount might hopefully release the uncut LILI one day, but until then, you could do a lot worse than the "Director's Cut". Highly-recommended from this corner.

POSTSCRIPT (29th May 2007): DARLING LILI is now available in it's original uncut form, via the new Paramount DVD editions from the UK and Australia.

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Excellent product condition.

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Great delivery service which really was above and beyond.

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V. Risoli-Black

"Darling Lili" Should Be Re-Discovered

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2015

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I must have bought the only new copy of this film as an import left and I got from one of my most reliable sellers for a steal price of $5.00 plus shipping. I am so glad I did as it was the original 137 min. version as the film was originally released. I am not quite certain now why the film was a flop, as it was a major work by producer/director Blake Edwards from 1970. He co-wrote the script with William Peter Blatty, and it had very much Blake Edwards's stamp. Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer wrote some wonderful songs for it: the Oscar-nominated "Whistling in the Dark," "I'll Give You Three Guesses," "Smile Away Each Rainy Day" and the title tune among them. There are a lot of military-themed old standards used in the score by Mancini like "It's a Long Way to Tiperrary" and such. Perhaps that is my chief complaint is the typical jolly time the characters seemed to have while playing spy vs. spy during wartime. The movie has pretty much the "Mata Hari" kind of premise. With matters ever darkening in the news and all the politician's today looking to boost our war efforts and our military, I looked from a distance, but acquiesce to the humor. Julie Andrews, because the film was such a costly flop, lost her box office clout, but she seemed ready for a change, if possible. Rock Hudson was cast opposite her, and he seems adequate. Jeremy Kemp has third billing as her seductive Nazi "uncle." You can certainly see pieces of "The Great Race" and "The Pink Panther" series and later efforts like "Victor/Victoria" in it and I was very happy with the PAL playing Paramount disc as the newer "Director's Cut" on the market, more expensive and, according to reviewers who claim the edited film is too choppy to almost unintelligible without the missing footage, I would have wished to see the full film. I seriously doubt Blake Edwards would prefer the shortened version given that the 137 min. film would have been more appreciated, In color with Dolby Digital sound.

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Perry Buck

The deleted scenes from the Directors Cut would have been better left in.

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The WWI dogfight scenes should have been better left in, and most of the other deleted scenes provided needed clarity of characters.

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Very entertaining movie

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Enjoyed tremendously

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Long ago, when the film was made, I heard it didn't do well at the box office. It's taken me 50 years to watch it and I thought it was wonderful. It's a slight mystery, war film with romance, amazing WWI air fights and the wonderful Julie Andrews - and equally wonderful Henry Mancini music. The topping is uniquely humorous touches of Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther). I laughed a lot, was caught up in the story and enjoyed every minute! Maybe it just took time for people to enjoy.

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chatvarin

How Did It Flop? Much Worse Stuff Earn Today!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 15, 2009

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How much more lovely this film is than I had any expectation of! One might suspect that a war thriller such as this one was only forced to have songs in it because of Julie Andrews's presence, rendering it a patchy musical thriller. What a misgiving that is; it's not a musical in any sense, doesn't try to be, and as far as thriller goes it clearly does not aspire to be one saturated with mystery either.

It really is a romance set in the time of war, with romance first and war as the circumstance. It is not the sweetest love story ever told, but it is crisply told. Granted, the writing is not always of the highest quality, but it fairly consistently is. It quite clearly is intent on not being a war suspense story, but it is not completely void of intrigue, and whatever there is certainly left me wondering, neither alternative glaringly patently the truth. In fact the film never (or did I miss it?) reveals what Operation Crepe Suzette is at all, and how was Major Larrabee passing any vital military information through Lili to the German when everything we see him telling Lili is verified as lies in the film?

If you want masculine suspense thriller then "Darling Lili" is not the place to look for it. It's the tangle with wartime espionage that the romance between Lili and Larrabee gets into that is the heart of this film. I regret that I find Julie Andrews too radiant a match for Rock Hudson, and although Dame Julie is completely natural as a lover Hudson seems wooden - neither convincingly sophisticated nor subtle. Once again Dame Julie Andrews really does literally carry the film. I think she was a little too old by this time for the strip-tease scene - but if you hadn't done it before it'd be better not to leave it until too late no?

The music instrumental or vocal is, simply put, unbelievably gorgeous. Some authentic WWI songs are featured, adding authentic touches of historical atmosphere to the film. The new songs written for the film feel strangely tame when one identifies Dame Julie with supple and effortless vocal acrobatic, but nonetheless sparkle. All musical numbers, if you can call them that at all, except one, as in "Star!", appear in the context of performance. Only the film's main theme song, "Whistling Away the Dark", which becomes Lili's theme music (much more so than the more superficial eponymous theme "Darling Lili"), really has direct pertinence to the main story. For musical haters the presence of songs should not matter; neither are songs used to tell the story nor are they draggingly long. They are not staged in the grand manner of musicals, the uncluttered instrumentation plenteously spacious to showcase Dame Julie's performance and the choreography never gets larger-than-life. They add to the atmosphere of the film and Dame Julie performs as well as at any other time.

Visually the film serves up some very beautiful pictures. The set is consistently beautiful. The same costume designer as for Dame Julie's wardrobe in "Star!" worked for this film, and the period costumes are just as dazzling and nostalgic, only more subdued. Their colours certainly are employed to the best result in the chromatic dynamic of the film's visual. The three most beautiful - very different - sequences (well actually four) that come to mind are the music hall performances of "Whistling Away the Dark" at the beginning and the end of the film, Lili's waking up to a house of red roses and when Lili and Larrabee join a school of children walking hands in hands in crocodiles singing a patriotic-sounding French songs in the French countryside. On the whole the air fight scenes are the most dire, the action generally feeling dragged and the scenery looking uncannily British for battles that are supposed to be taking high above the fields of Flanders.

I felt the film could do very well without its Pink-Panther-esque comic, especially of the two French Army Intellingence officers, which, however slight, leaves the film lacking in the grit that would make it so much better. However, noone should allow that to dissuade him from this neat little weaving of a war romance.

The DVD doesn't come with much, just a trailer. Yet I commend its neat and clean design throughout - the case, the menus. The naming of scenes is really a nice little thing.

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A. M. Glenville

A collectors item for all sorts of reasons - not all of them obvious!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 1, 2010

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The time which has elapsed since this film was made allows us an analytical approach to what went wrong and what makes those who love the film cling on it in spite (or because of ) its' imperfections.
Wardrobe - an absolute hoot - wonderful Donald Brooks creates a wardrobe of stunning frocks which barely acknowledge the period of the film!
Blake Edwards trade marks - the bumbling detectives, the umbrellas, the switch from high drama to low vaudeville comedy. If you like and recognise them fine - if you don't you'll hate them all over again.
Rock Hudson - makes a sweater and boots look divine, has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek throughout and is totally charming.
Julie Andrews - magical as always in spite of some very silly things she has to say and do.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsors House - used as Julies house is Paris!
The Plot - dreadful but still somehow enjoyable.
The cast - as always with Blake Edwards very clever and surprising - even has a bit of an overl;ap with some Ken Russell players!
The Score - excellent.
Summing up - a lovely old film with lots of things which don't work and some bad editing but if - like me - you have a soft spot for it or you like Rock and Julie it's a must buy.

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Like the other two DVD 's we purchased with Julie Andrews in none of these worked in my mother's player,waste of money
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D. L. Jones

At Last DARLING LILI in It's Complete Roadshow Version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 25, 2007

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Thank you Paramount UK for finally giving us this beautiful film in it's entirety. Living in the US, I was extremely disappointed by the butchered 2005 release of this gem in my country. But now I have it, even though I have to watch it on a multi-region DVD player. The transfer and sound are gorgeous. Better than you would ever expect for a film of this age. Here for all to see are the musical numbers, complete and unedited. You can also enjoy the complete seduction scene in the country inn and appreciate Julie's impeccable comedic timing. I just wish they had included the production short, "Darling Julie," prepared at the time of this film's production. Also, a still gallery would have been nice. For you American's reading this, owning this treasure is worth every penny of your investment in buying a multi-region DVD player. For you Brits, run out and buy this beauty. And, can anyone explain to me why Paramount released a cut version to the US and the complete version to Europe?

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lovely julie andrews

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2020

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bought this dvd after reading her latest book, did watch it many many years ago so wanted to revisit it.
Came really quickly and well packaged.
Sound and picture quality excellent.

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