- Actors: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker
- Directors: Ernst Lubitsch
- Format: PAL
- Language English, Spanish
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: U
- Studio: Filmax
- DVD Release Date: 22 Nov 2005
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000E2LQPW
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 176,933 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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A beguiling comedy, the last completed by Ernst Lubitsch as director, Cluny Brown is set in a never-never land England in 1938. Jennifer Jones plays the niece of a plumber, unsure of her place in the world, who takes a job as a maid at a country house, where she re-encounters intellectual Czech refuge and freeloader/free spirit Charles Boyer. This being a romantic comedy, the ending is not hard to guess; however, along the way there are a lot of good jokes, some startling double entendres, and some deft comic acting (Peter Lawford aside, who is a very dull stick).
Jennifer Jones has a deep note to her voice which has reminded me in previous films of Marilyn Monroe; here, she is very Monroe-ish, and her character is quite similar to Marilyn's in The Seven Year Itch - though perhaps not so daffy, or overtly sexy. There is a scene in which she and Boyer are reminiscing about their first meeting, where she turned up in lieu of her uncle to mend a sink - the other servants are eavesdropping and plainly think the two of them are talking about sex. `I rolled up me sleeves,' says Jones, `and rolled down me stockings - and bang, bang! bang!' The way she says it is hilariously suggestive - how they got it past the censors beats me.
Anyway, a charming film - not very well known, I think - and definitely to be recommended.
Jennifer Jones has a deep note to her voice which has reminded me in previous films of Marilyn Monroe; here, she is very Monroe-ish, and her character is quite similar to Marilyn's in The Seven Year Itch - though perhaps not so daffy, or overtly sexy. There is a scene in which she and Boyer are reminiscing about their first meeting, where she turned up in lieu of her uncle to mend a sink - the other servants are eavesdropping and plainly think the two of them are talking about sex. `I rolled up me sleeves,' says Jones, `and rolled down me stockings - and bang, bang! bang!' The way she says it is hilariously suggestive - how they got it past the censors beats me.
Anyway, a charming film - not very well known, I think - and definitely to be recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
British characters as seen by a central European!
The actors are all perfect in their parts: Cluny "who does not know her place", Belinsky who manages to con his way as a "great man" through insular British pre-war society, to the members of the "lower orders" who not only know their place but relish being in it. It is a finely chiselled cameo, with every scene just right.
Different from the book and much, much better - someting that can rarely be said of films based on books.
Marta Gondos
The actors are all perfect in their parts: Cluny "who does not know her place", Belinsky who manages to con his way as a "great man" through insular British pre-war society, to the members of the "lower orders" who not only know their place but relish being in it. It is a finely chiselled cameo, with every scene just right.
Different from the book and much, much better - someting that can rarely be said of films based on books.
Marta Gondos
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A nice love story with an excellent cast and plenty of humorous incidents. No overt sex, no violence, no nudity, no drugs, no foul language - just a goodhearted story and really enjoyable. Jennifer Jones is sensational.
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