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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543400684
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 23254
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1967
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Description:
Plunge into a world of high-flying adventure, pulse-pounding excitement – and outright hilarity– in this captivating comedy-thriller starring Doris Day and Richard Harris. Featuring breathtaking stunts, tantalizing romance and exotic locales from the Swiss Alps to the shores of Southern California, this ingenious spy spoof is a gorgeous 'kaleidoscope of international intrigue' (The Hollywood Reporter)!
Industrial spy Patricia Fowler (Day) is hot on the trail of a secret formula with the power to change the world...by keeping ladies' hair dry in the water! So important is this miracle hair spray that cosmetics operatives everywhere have mobilized to find it. But when Patricia crosses paths with sexy spy Christopher White (Harris), she discovers something much more sinister behind her quest...a plot that could cause bad-hair days the world over!
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Rating:  - Agreat DVD for Doris Day fans
I waited a long time for this movie to be released on DVD. It was a favorite of mine when my parents took me to see it when I was a little girl. If you love Doris Day, the wonderful mod fasions of the 60's and sappy old movies, you need to watch this one.
Rating:  - Clunky But Appealing In A Cult-Film Sort Of Way
By her own admission Doris Day greatly disliked the script--but found to her horror that husband Marty Melcher had signed her to the project without her knowledge. Director Frank Tashlin and writer Jay Jason resculpted the script, altering plot lines and characters in an effort to win Day's confidence in the project--but she still didn't like it and is on record as considering CAPRICE the worst of her films.
It isn't difficult to see why. Released at the height of the "spy movie" craze of the 1960s, CAPRICE seeks to emulate such films as CHARADE with a mixture of wit and suspense, only to arrive at lackluster farce and a series of absurdly obvious plot-twists. The story concerns Patricia Foster (Day), who becomes an industrial spy for a cosmetics company in order to uncover her father's killer. Unfortunately, the elements never hang together in any consistent way: the movie is too eager to throw away plot points for the sake of a laugh. This might be forgiven if CAPRICE was actually funny, but the laughs involved are few, far between, and very slight indeed.
Script and plot aside, the film's other great failure is the mismatch of Day with leading man Richard Harris. Although she was a beautiful woman, she is obviously quite a bit older than Harris, who plays a womanizing counter-agent surrounded by nubile, sultry models; the romance between the two consequently has an awkward quality. More than this, Day and Harris come from two extremely different acting styles and ... Read More
Rating:  - Doris Don't!!!
This is a movie for the rainy (Day) you don't have anything else to watch. Ray Walston is a joy to watch, but you can see how strained Doris is in this movie.
Rating: - A favourite of mine since I was a child. Fantastic Extras as well.
I first saw this film on television when I was quite young, I thought it was very entertaining. As an adult, I still have a soft spot for it and this newly remastered print is exceptional. Crammed with extras it is even more enjoyable especially in wide screen. Apart from Doris herself, Richard Harris, Ray Walston and Edward Mulhare are at their best. Michael J. Pollard and Jack Kruschen also add to the fun.
Rating: - Doris, you make my Day!!
Doris Day's image has sometimes been mocked as 'the good girl.' To me she's the 'good girl who got the guy'--and what guys! Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, James Garner, Rod Taylor...and in "Caprice" Richard Harris gets the honor as a 'cockney James Bond' double-agent who becomes Doris' worst and sexiest complication as she goes undercover in the cosmetics industry to find her father's killer and bring an international narcotics ring to justice. I have always loved this movie and was delighted to find it on DVD at last. The plot is, well, the ultimate hair spray/swinging beds, but who cares? It's a lot of fun, great music, the clothes and sets are gorgeous, and as usual, Doris gets her man. If you're a fan of the goofier spy spoofs of the '60's as well as "Austin Powers," get "Caprice." You won't regret it.
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