- Category: Video » Comedy » Comedy, General
- Format: DVD Learn more about the DVD format using Tower WIKI.
- Region:
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 027616887610
- WAPI (Tower ID): 106972012
- Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Release Date: July 15, 2003
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #17972 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #2497 in Comedy (See Top 100 Comedy Bestsellers)
- #2497 in Comedy, General (See Top 100 Comedy, General Bestsellers)
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Product Description
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Review
USA Today, 06/24/1994, p.3D, "...[The film] now looks like the last great Billy Wilder comedy..."
Title Note
After years of eluding censors with double and triple meanings, Wilder included both profanity and nudity for the first time in one of his films.
Release Note
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Product Notes
Jack Lemmon stars as Walter Armbruster in Wilder's leisurely romantic comedy set on the idyllic Mediterranean. When his father dies in a car crash on the isle of Ischia, the corporate executive quickly is on a plane. Once there, he learns from Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills), a young Brit, that her mother, who was his father's mistress, was also killed. To make matter worse, bureaucratic rules prevent the release of the bodies for a few days. Not long after, both bodies are stolen from the morgue, and thieves are revealed to be an eccentric family of Italian vintners, who hold the corpses hostage until they are paid for the damage caused to their vineyard by the car crash. After reluctantly paying up, the irritable Walter returns to the hotel, where he even more reluctantly joins the free-spirited Pamela for a night of skinny-dipping. When a porter who attempts to blackmail the naked couple and is shot by his angry, very pregnant girlfriend, the hotel manager Carlucci (Clive Revill) is forced to put Walter and Pamela into the same room, while the murder investigation proceeds. Neither of them regrets his decision. A relaxed, sardonic comedy, juxtaposing the uptight American with the laid back European, it makes many of the same points about the excesses of American life as his earlier films in a far more mellow style.
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