Father of the Bride (Snap case)
by Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Billie Burke, Don Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Spencer TracyDirector: Vincente Minnelli
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: John Alton
Editor: Ferris Webster
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Writer: Albert Hackett
Writer: Edward Streeter
Writer: Frances Goodrich
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Taiwanese Chinese (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Reviews of Father of the Bride (Snap case)
DVD Review: Tracy's Narration, Liz's Face Highlight This Version
Summary: 4 Stars
For those who like a light comedy diversion, this was pretty good stuff. Spencer Tracy is excellent as a "father of the bride" and he gives us a good idea of what it's like to have a daughter married off. Of course, Hollywood exaggerates a bit, and not everyone's daughter looks like Elizabeth Taylor, but that's what made this fun and, I think, a hit movie.
A re-make was done 40 years later, starring Steve Martin. I watched both versions and would select this one over the re-make. As in most cases, there were more values and family togetherness in the classic-era movies than what Hollywood usually shows today. Nothing against Martin, but it was too difficult trying to top Tracy's performance in here.
This version actually was honored quite a bit, up for a handful of Academy Awards including "Best Picture." I don't remember this movie being THAT good, but everyone's sense of humor is different. Not being a father it was hard for me to relate to the mom and dad's predicaments here. Tracy and Joan Bennett played the parents. However, married friends of mine who saw this movie all loved it.
Obviously, some of this is very dated and a little unrealistic. Any father who still sees his daughter as someone in pigtails and tomboyish when she looks like Taylor ain't paying attention! Then again, maybe all dads see their daughters as little girls, no matter what age.
We see something else employed in this film you don't see anymore: someone talking directly to the camera as Tracy does here. I kind of like that. Daffy Duck did that in cartoons, with hilarious results. So did Groucho Mark. It made us, the audience, feel we were involved with wedding, too.
All in all, still a good film which holds up reasonably well.
DVD Review: FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL VERSION. VERY GOOD. ALL THE SITUATIONS THAT GEORGE BROOKS FACES ARE RELATABLE TO EVERY FATHER WHO HAS A DAUGHTRE GETTING MARRIED.DVD Review: enjoyable
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was very enjoyable and there was no indecency in it whatsoever. It's much better than the recent Father of the Bride with Steve Martin. I was able to buy Father's Little Dividend with this dvd and enjoyed it as much as the first. It's well worth your money and time.DVD Review: Spencer sells it.
Summary: 5 Stars
Spencer sells it. Steve Martin was funny. Spencer sells it.
It is in black and white for the first ten minutes, but you are so pulled into the movie now that you have forgotten that by now. At the end of the movie when the daughter calls, you know that Spencer sells it and whether you thought you had bought into this version of the movie or not, you know now.
Picture and sound are good.
DVD Review: She had to break it to us casually ...and over dinner!
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though this may not be Elizabeth Taylor's most popular role, it is probably one of my favorites that she is in. She's not the unattainable, rich society girl she normally plays. She's just a normal girl living with a normal family.
Kay Banks (Elizabeth Taylor) is the only daughter in her family and it causes quite a bit of commotion when she announces to her parents one evening at dinner that she is getting married. Her dad, Stanley Banks (brilliantly played by Spencer Tracy) immediately thinks through her long list of past dates trying to figure out which one it could be. She announces "Buckley" as the lucky guy. "What's his last name? I hope it's better than his first!" fires back Tracy.
As they go through all the planning and arranging and everything for the wedding they encounter quite a few comedic situations - such as Spence tearing his suit! And as he explains to his daughter how they used to do things he gets the reply, "Oh, that was millions of years ago..."
This is a great classic and (I think) is way better than the re-make!
Description of Father of the Bride (Snap case)
Stanley Banks is a good father who adores his beautiful daughter Kay and his well-ordered life, a life that is thrown into chaos when Kay announces her engagement. A classic MGM comedy, the story is told via flashback and chronicles the many travails, financial and emotional, suffered by Stanley (Spencer Tracy) as he tries to give Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) a wedding to remember. Year: 1950 Director: Vincente Minnelli Starring: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth TaylorThis 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic may show its age here and there, but it's still a far sturdier movie than the 1991 Steve Martin vehicle. Spencer Tracy earned yet another Oscar nomination for his wonderfully well observed portrayal of Stanley Banks, a decent (if occasionally long-winded) fellow who gets caught up and cut up in the rudderless spectacle that is the wedding of his only daughter (Elizabeth Taylor, of course). It's a sage commentary on the class mores of the day--how much does one spend? (Or, more accurately, when does one quit spending?) Does one invite one's work colleagues, even if they don't know the bride? Tracy is simply magnificent, gruffly warm and funny, whether he's getting sloppy drunk and discoursing at length or simply sitting by, silently amazed, as his daughter and her beau make up after a spat. The film inspired a sequel (1951's Father's Little Dividend--try getting that title made nowadays), a remake, and a remake of its sequel, as well as a TV series--all in all, almost as many incarnations as Taylor had weddings. --David Kronke
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