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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790744643
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790744643
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 10698
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: June 16, 1950
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This 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic may show its age here and there, but it's still a far sturdier movie than the 1991 Steve Martin vehicle. Spencer Tracy earned yet another Oscar nomination for his wonderfully well observed portrayal of Stanley Banks, a decent (if occasionally long-winded) fellow who gets caught up and cut up in the rudderless spectacle that is the wedding of his only daughter (Elizabeth Taylor, of course). It's a sage commentary on the class mores of the day--how much does one spend? (Or, more accurately, when does one quit spending?) Does one invite one's work colleagues, even if they don't know the bride? Tracy is simply magnificent, gruffly warm and funny, whether he's getting sloppy drunk and discoursing at length or simply sitting by, silently amazed, as his daughter and her beau make up after a spat. The film inspired a sequel (1951's Father's Little Dividend--try getting that title made nowadays), a remake, and a remake of its sequel, as well as a TV series--all in all, almost as many incarnations as Taylor had weddings. --David Kronke
Product Description:
'I would like to say a few words about weddings' a weary man says from the middle of a muddle of rice and scattered bottles. What follows is a warm witty look at what it means to be Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy is the father and Elizabeth Taylor the bride in this lively Vincente Minnelli-directed classic. Taylor is glowingly showcased - and reflected in three mirrors when first seen in a wedding gown. Tracy's performance captures every loving father's exasperations and joys as the day approaches. It also captured the fourth of his nine* Best Actor Academy Award* nominations. The film also earned nominations** for Best Picture and Screenplay. Here comes the bride there goes dad's wallet - and everyone's heart. What sparkling fun!Running Time: 93 min.System Requirements: Running Time 93 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 012569508224
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Rating:  - FATHER OF THE BRIDE
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL VERSION. VERY GOOD. ALL THE SITUATIONS THAT GEORGE BROOKS FACES ARE RELATABLE TO EVERY FATHER WHO HAS A DAUGHTRE GETTING MARRIED.
Rating: - enjoyable
This DVD was very enjoyable and there was no indecency in it whatsoever. It's much better than the recent Father of the Bride with Steve Martin. I was able to buy Father's Little Dividend with this dvd and enjoyed it as much as the first. It's well worth your money and time.
Rating: - Spencer sells it.
Spencer sells it. Steve Martin was funny. Spencer sells it.
It is in black and white for the first ten minutes, but you are so pulled into the movie now that you have forgotten that by now. At the end of the movie when the daughter calls, you know that Spencer sells it and whether you thought you had bought into this version of the movie or not, you know now.
Picture and sound are good.
Rating: - She had to break it to us casually ...and over dinner!
Even though this may not be Elizabeth Taylor's most popular role, it is probably one of my favorites that she is in. She's not the unattainable, rich society girl she normally plays. She's just a normal girl living with a normal family.
Kay Banks (Elizabeth Taylor) is the only daughter in her family and it causes quite a bit of commotion when she announces to her parents one evening at dinner that she is getting married. Her dad, Stanley Banks (brilliantly played by Spencer Tracy) immediately thinks through her long list of past dates trying to figure out which one it could be. She announces "Buckley" as the lucky guy. "What's his last name? I hope it's better than his first!" fires back Tracy.
As they go through all the planning and arranging and everything for the wedding they encounter quite a few comedic situations - such as Spence tearing his suit! And as he explains to his daughter how they used to do things he gets the reply, "Oh, that was millions of years ago..."
This is a great classic and (I think) is way better than the re-make!
Rating:  - Dated Froth of the Most Delicious Kind
This piece of 1950s froth is expertly served up by Vincent Minnelli, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, and a wonderful supporting cast that includes Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, and Leo G. Carroll, the latter doing a priceless turn as a supercilious wedding caterer.
The film is as interesting as a record of the values of the times, as it is for the masterful performance by Spencer Tracy, who manages to make something out of what is, essentially, nothing. Well, that's what froth is: air with a bit of cream in it.
Kay Banks is twenty, the only daughter of a successful lawyer, who is living the upper-middle-class Life of Reilly at home with her parents in an immaculate suburb. She has left high school, is not attending college, and clearly does not have and never has had, a job. She is manifestly waiting around for Mr. Right to appear. Mr. Right's appearance is only a matter of time, because Kay is played by an 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor who is so astonishingly beautiful that the film generates heavy ruminations about the random injustice of the bestowal of genetic gifts. The film also hit the public relations jackpot by being released within a week of the young Taylor's (first) real-life wedding to hotel heir Nicky Hilton, in a bridal gown considerably less demure than the one she finally appears in at the end of this film.
Kay, with three brothers, is her father's darling. Dad is played by Spencer Tracy, who manages to be simultaneously gruff, ... Read More
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