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Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543446309
Format: Color, Widescreen, Restored, Subtitled
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 30089
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 01, 1955
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Product Description:
Rich Harry K. Thaw shoots architect Stanford White in 1906 over Thaw's wife showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.Starring:Ray MillandJoan CollinsFarley GrangerLuther AdlerCornelia SkinnerGlenda FarrellFrances FullerPhilip ReedRuntime: 109 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 024543446309 Manufacturer No: 2244630
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Rating:  - Shallow
The story depicted in the movie is fairly accurate, except for the trial at the end, but it never goes beneath the surface, never even tries to tell who the three main characters were or why they acted as they did. All we are told is that Harry Thaw was crazy, Stanford White was sort of an innocent victim, and Evelyn Nesbit was pretty. It wasn't enough.
The murder of White is, in my view, the most interesting crime of the 20th century, and this movie turns it into just another killing. The true story had everything: a gorgeous girl, raw sex, lechery, madness, wealth, and jealousy. There are several good books on the subject, and at least one other movie does a better job of telling the story.
As for acting, Joan Collins couldn't and the others didn't. The sets and Cinemascope photography are lush, but they don't make up for the acting and directing flaws.
Rating:  - The Girl Swings
This is a discovery for me.Because of the sensational nature of the case (New York architect Stanford White shot by the husband of White's ex-mistress in 1904), combined with the publicity surrounding Joan Collins,
the quality of the film was overlooked at the time of its release. In fact it is a beautifully made period piece with very good performances. Farley Granger is surprisingly good as the unstable Harry Thaw and there are great supporting actors like Glenda Farrell and Luther Adler. Even Joan Collins is quite adequate in the role of the title role.
Rating: - "Shoot the moon!"
Ripped from a turn-of-the-century scandal, THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING is a fascinating movie starring Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit, the young showgirl who found herself at the center of the infamous Thaw/White murder trial.
Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) achieves nationwide fame posing for Charles Dana Gibson (Richard Travis), and later becomes romantically linked with famous architect Stanford White (Ray Milland). Unwilling to create a scandal by divorcing his wife, Stanford instead enrols Evelyn in an exclusive boarding school where Evelyn, heartbroken, suffers a nervous breakdown.
Salvation comes in the form of millionaire playboy Harry Kendall-Thaw (Farley Granger). Seeing no other option, Evelyn reluctantly marries him; but his vicious imagination still believes White to be a competitor for Evelyn's love. Their violent relationship comes to a shocking climax when Thaw murders White on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden; Evelyn is then forced to endure a humiliating trial where her personal character is dragged through the mud.
THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING was originally slated as a musical entitled "The Girl in Pink Tights" and was to have starred Marilyn Monroe as Evelyn Nesbit. When Monroe's casting proved impossible, the premise of the film was changed to a crime drama and Fox starlet Joan Collins landed the plum lead role. Ray Milland offers a keenly-felt performance as Evelyn's fatherly lover White, and shares a great chemistry with ... Read More
Rating: - Great Fox Classic w/ Joan Collins
I purchased this title seperatly from the Collins Box set since I love the 20th Century Fox Classic Slip Cases They are the best slip cases from any studio! Anyhow I understand one critism with this release it does NOT contain the original mono soundtrack of the film. It contains a stereo track that is nice but usually FOX gives these releases the original mono track. Maybe they had to upgrade it due to poor quality of the surviving mono track MAybe? FOX should have had a bonus feature explaining this if it is the case. This is a rare film that now you an buy isn't but it is a classic and is better than I expected. The restored picture looks vry nice also. the opening titles looked amazing in the cinemascope format.
Rating:  - very disappointed.
The pictures in the movie are ok but no sound track (original).It isn't even close to the original. Not worth the price at all. Thanks Roger Seas.
( this is on DVD)
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