The Amazing Adventure
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Actor: Cary Grant, Mary BrianBrand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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DVD Review: Ernest Bliss finds earnest bliss
Summary: 4 Stars
Transfers of ECHO BRIDGE (aka "Platinum Disc") public domain movies is about average. No sign of restoration on their 60 and 70 year old films, with none dubbed from pristine studio prints. Minor downside: this company superimposes a faint logo on-screen every so often.
British-made THE AMAZING ADVENTURE (originally "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss") features a low-key Cary Grant at the top of his game as an indolent son of wealth who attempts to earn his physician's respect by betting he can forsake family riches and comfort and make his way in the world for a year, starting with only a small wardrobe and £5 in his pocket.
In this typical mid-Depression Era romantic comedy, uppercrust Bliss gets an education in how the working class lives. Along the way he also finds compassion for his fellow creature, becomes a better man himself, falls in love with a real sweety (Miss Brian) and wins his wager with the doctor.
It's another take on MY MAN GODFREY (1936) or SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941), and almost a reversal of the FINIAN'S RAINBOW song, "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich," although here Cary successfully transitions from idle rich to being gainfully employed, as first an appliance salesman and then a chauffeur. It's not a movie classic, but "The Amazing Adventure" is pleasant enough, never drags, and is a definite treat for us Archibald Leach devotees. Recommended.
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.
(6.3) The Amazing Adventure (1936) - Cary Grant/Mary Brian/Peter Gawthorne/Henry Kendall
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