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DVD ~ Michael Caine
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  • Actors: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz
  • Directors: Brian De Palma
  • Writers: Brian De Palma
  • Producers: Fred C. Caruso, George Litto, Samuel Z. Arkoff
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 29 April 2002
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000063BMB
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,074 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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To condemn Dressed to Kill as a Hitchcock rip-off is to miss the sheer enjoyment of Brian De Palma's delirious thriller. Homages to Hitchcock run rampant through most of De Palma's earlier films, and this one's chock-full of visual quotes, mostly cribbed from Vertigo and Psycho. But De Palma's indulgent depravity transcends simple mimicry to assume a vitality all its own. It's smothered in thickly atmospheric obsessions with sex, dread, paranoia, and voyeurism, not to mention a heavy dose of Psycho-like psychobabble about a wannabe transsexual who is compelled to slash up any attractive female who reminds him--the horror--that he's still very much a man.

Angie Dickinson plays the sexually unsatisfied, forty-something wife who's the killer's first target, relaying her sexual fantasies to her psychiatrist (Michael Caine) before actually living one of them out after the film's celebrated cat-and-mouse sequence in a Manhattan art museum. The focus then switches to a murder witness (De Palma's then-girlfriend Nancy Allen) and Dickinson's grieving whiz-kid son (Keith Gordon), who attempt to solve the murder while staying one step ahead (or so they think) of the crude detective (Dennis Franz) assigned to the case. Propelled by Pino Donaggio's lush and stimulating score, De Palma's visuals provide seductive counterpoint to his brashly candid dialogue, and the plot conceals its own implausibility with morbid thrills and intoxicating suspense. If you're not laughing at De Palma's shameless audacity, you're sure to be on the edge of your seat. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Includes: Original theatrical trailer
Interactive menu screens and chapter selections
Subtitles: French, Italian, Spanish , Dutch

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Flashy thriller, 20 Dec 2002
A typical day in New York City. Psychiatrist Dr Elliot (Michael Caine) listens to Kate (Angie Dickinson) outlining her marital problems before she wanders off to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and picks up a mysterious stranger. Meanwhile, disturbed cross-dresser Bobby is ringing Dr Elliot and threatening to carve up his patients. And an uptown hooker (Nancy Allen) is turning tricks to fund her investment portfolio.

Brian de Palma's glossy and gratuitous cult classic is an unashamed homage to Alfred Hitchcock - not just one shower scene, but two - and has some marvellous set pieces. Especially the minor ones - check out the accusing looks of the little girl in the elevator when Kate heads home from her afternoon tryst with a lover.

A word of warning on the DVD available in the UK though. Unfortunately, this DVD has no screen set-up extras to allow you to choose the viewing format (though there are 5 language options and scene-selection). It is made to be viewed on a widescreen TV. It plays at 16:9 ratio on a standard TV, but this is not a pan-and-scan version, so you miss bits from the edge. It only REALLY interferes with a couple of scenes, when you get half the face of a character talking, but is an obvious flaw, not to mention a distraction, if you are a fan of the film. It comes with the original theatrical trailer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable!, 17 Jan 2009
This film may seem to many people a film like many others. But this is not what I think about. I believe it is really a great film. I try to tell you why:
Imagine that the cinema was originally silent. Filmmakers were trying to tell us their stories just by images. They hadn't that much use of words. Just some words in entertitles. Consequently they became very strong in storytelling through the images.
Then the sound came. The first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences was Jazz Singer in 1927.

But we should not forget that the strength of cinema is still in use of image rather than the sound or dialogues.
That is what, for instance, Alfred Hitchcock does. In Rear Window for example we can not hear the neighbors in the other side of the backyard, we just see them. Somehow these sequences are silent.
Now with Dressed to Kill we are again back to this style
For example a dozen minutes that Kate (Angie Dickinson) spends in the museum is just like silent film. We understand everything without any words. The director Brian de Palma uses only images to tell us his story.
This is not the only case in the film, there are some others...The Phantom Of The Opera
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well done and a funny final twist, 29 Sep 2007
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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A great classic in the genre of the compulsive killer. It is well done though definitely easy. In many ways it is a remake of Hitchcock's Psycho, yet it is pure New York and it has some kind of a flavor, that of the modern cop-film. The cop is both arrogant and negligent and he runs risks via other people. He goes to a football game or some sports event with his children while someone is running the risk of being killed, and he knows it. So we have the inventiveness of a teenager and the tenacity of a hooker and they both manage to find the killer and even more or less trap him, though they could have been killed in doing so. The final touch though, the punch line of the film is a real twist in the fabric of logical thrilling. And what about having had it wrong all along? Entertaining indeed.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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