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Thierrybazzanella.com - Madame X (1966)
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $17.70
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, John Van Dreelen
Directed By: David Lowell Rich
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300183926
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300183920
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Running Time: 100
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-04-27
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: An Outdated Schmaltzy Film
Comment: So many people seem to like this film - Madame X. I don't. I 've seen
it on television and am glad I never saw it in a theater in 1966.
The cast is excellent (Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Burgess Meredith,
Ricardo Montalban, Joan Whats-Her-Name)but the plot and the schmaltzy
dialogue plus the tear-jerking conclusion leave me laughing and that's it.
Why was this movie made ? And as late as 1966. This is a 1940'-50's film,
in my opinion, and outdated by the Sixties. But so many people seem to like
it. Sentimentality. Sob, sob, sob......You can have Madame X. This should have been made as a farce....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Golden oldie!!
Comment: This is the type of movie we should all be watching.. good story and has a lesson to it. A real "tear-jerker."
Customer Rating:
Summary: Imitation of Laff
Comment: A lot of people love this movie and so do I--but probably not for the same reason. Not for nothing was this the last gasp of the Ross Hunter tearjerkers in the "Imitation of Life"/"Back Street" mode. By the mid-Sixties, this type of hokum was far more comic than melodramatic--just look at the ridiculous casting, which includes a 40-something Lana Turner (who'd just played Sandra Dee's mother/stepmother in her last few pictures) as a young bride. . . having her first child! Surrounding her with inappropriate actors like bland John Forsythe (as her middle-aged ambitious "young" husband) and veteran Constance Bennett (who somehow looks more like Lana's younger sister than her mother-in-law) didn't help realism. Cheesy production values and anacronisms (all the women are dressed in the height of Sixties middlebrow fashions--in scenes taking place thirty years earlier!) just add to the fun. A real howl, especially when an Oscar-hungry Turner goes to pot in the final reels. You'll cry alright--with laughter.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the Greats!
Comment: If you're looking for a rainy afternoon or late night tearjerker, bursting at the seams with impeccable style, glamour and delicious disaster, this is your film. Only Lana Turner can deliver such wistful heartbreak in the finest gowns and jewels one instant, and next be the tragic victim of misfortune, suffering as only those who fall from on high can know. To call it melodrama would be an insult, this is classic cinema, with Hollywood royalty.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 5 Stars PLUS
Comment: One of the best pictures ever produced. suspensful, thriller
and a TEAR JERKER, this movie will remain in your thoughts
for a very long time, there isnt a dull moment in this movie.
All the actors are OUTSTANDING. I have viewed this movie many
many times and its always like the first time seeing it,
never boring . I know you will like this movie.
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