Bedtime Story (1964)
Bedtime Story (1964)
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Genre: Comedy
DVDRip | MKV | 640 x 480 | x264 @ 1000 Kbps | English AAC 2.0 @ 128 Kbps | 98 min | 843 Mb
Genre: Comedy
Benson, is a Casanova who despises women and invents all sorts of tricks to bed them and leave them. His favorite one is going through Germany posing as an American GI of Teunonic extraction. Whenever he spots a girl he likes, he takes a Polarod picture of her house, knocks on the door waving the photo and pretending to be on a pilgrimage to this very cottage his grandmother so vividly described. It is an infallible system for a hit-and-run seduction. Benson seems content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who has learned to combine sex with money. Jamison poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to bestow their jewels on him for the sake of the counterrevolution. Benson decides to corner Jamison's market on sex plus finance. A contest develops, and whoever wins will dominate a small Riviera resort as "King of the Mountain," the film's original title. Remade in 1988 as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
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 uproarious as the American GI in Europe, an egotist, sometimes crude, a hustler, preying on gorgeous woman 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 & very willing women.
And thus begins an even funnier competition between Brando and Niven, as the movie really gets rolling along…as each character underestimates the other in cons and setups, then untimely outwits the other…all the way until the final twist of an ironic and funny ending to the film.
Yes, there are indeed a couple of silly and corny scenes…but overall the movie is a very funny farce, as enjoyable & well written comedy to come out of that early 60's era, (1964) or any era for that matter….Brando is truly terrific - Accept no substitutes, i.e., "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"!IMDB Reviewer
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Bedtime Story (1964)
