Nicole Maurey

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This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?
crude, but this is the stuff of memories
The Horror Classic "Day Of The Triffids" is ownworthy!
A great movie to watch
This is the WRONG "Day of the Triffids". . .

Day of the Triffids (1962)
Starring: Howard Keel , Nicole Maurey , Janette Scott , Kieron Moore , and Mervyn Johns
Director: Steve Sekely , and Freddie Francis
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ASIN: B00007G1SX
Release Date: 2003-02-11

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This 1962 version of The Day of the Triffids has been a TV staple for many years, more probably because of a lasting affection for John Wyndham's original novel than any high regard for the film itself. The premise--a meteor shower blinds almost all of humanity, just as a space-borne strain of ambulatory killer plants begins to proliferate--is so strong that it's easy to overlook the frankly messy realization of it. The film opens well, sticking close to the book, as Howard Keel awakens in a London hospital after an eye operation and takes off the bandages to discover that he can see but most of the rest of the population can't. There are unsettling, effective bits with a plane literally flying blind and the beginnings of panic among the fumbling survivors, and one good Triffid encounter in a fog.

Then the film is strangely compelled to stray all over the map, with trips to France and Spain that have no discernible purpose. Director Steve Sekely's original cut was adjudged so disastrous that an uncredited Freddie Francis was brought in to shoot a whole new subplot, featuring Keiron Moore and Janette Scott in a vine-besieged lighthouse, to thread through the old footage. The results are less satisfying than the later BBC serial adaptation, but it still has some irresistible end-of-the-world and killer-plant material. --Kim Newman

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This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?.......2007-06-06

Note: I really liked this movie as a kid ..and i still love it now...but
I bought the Day of the Triffids, the version put out by a company called cheezy or something....Hey the movie looks great compared to other version, but the last 20 minutes there is no audio, i dont know if its only my copy that has the problem, but i was really dissapointed. If anybody else had that audio problem, please leave me a comment.
My copy went straight to the garbadge can.

crude, but this is the stuff of memories.......2007-05-29

I saw this as a memento to childhood delight, as I vividly recall seeing it with my best pal when it came out. There are wonderful images in it, of the greasy, mysteriously menacing plants striking blind beauties while society falls apart around them.

Of course, if your standard is not to re-live a wonderful time as a child in a cinema of screaming and laughing children, this film will probably do very little for you. Viewed more cooly from my vantage as a middle-aged film buff, it is pretty weak as sci-fi. Little is explained - the meteors somehow cause both blindness and a bizarre transformation in the triffids - and after the chaos of a society falling apart, the plot takes weird twists. One group that the narrative follows forms a kind of family and inexplicably heads to southern europe, where after much danger they escape. The other actors are a troubled couple of scientists, who miraculously discover that salt water dissolves the triffids after much failed study, again inexplicably. And the effects! Very bad compared to what is available today.

Recommended for purposes of nostalgia only, unless you are a connoisseur of clunky monster flicks over lots of beer.

The Horror Classic "Day Of The Triffids" is ownworthy!.......2007-04-08

ok ive Just watched "day of the triffids" and it has been reformatted into anamorphic widescreen, but sadly they left in some of the graininess of the origional film. but to see this classic remastered and even with the few graphical errors, this IS, and always will be, a True Classic! until someone Remakes this movie and doesn't blow it! *waggles finger at tom cruse in war of the worlds* but overall this movie is for the fans of the oldies and the people whom saw this movie in theaters (yes you know who you are) and its worth every cent to go on an adventure like this. truly a rare gem! *a meteor shower blinds most of the humans on earth, leaving the few survivors to fend off the horrific Triffids! before Humanity os destroyed* not too many of the oldies are worth owning but, if you dont own this or like it if i was you i would avoid Golden Oldies like this and if your only happy with Tons of Extras and perfect imagry then this might not be to your liking at this point i suggest renting it to be sure its your thing.

A great movie to watch .......2007-03-27

This is a movie that I enjoyed very much. I had seeing this movie when I was younger but was very hard to find until it came out on vhs and dvd.
I found the fact that it could happen to anyone who is suckered into watching some celestial show and wake up the next day with burned out eye retinas causing permanent blindness.

Not only is the person blind, but the whole world is blind except for the people who did not watch the meteorite shower. Plants, called Triffids become active and unroot themselves and go killing and eating people. Now that is cool. Planes, ships, trains crashing because their pilots or conductors has become blind. A very good movie to watch. Good story and performance.

This is the WRONG "Day of the Triffids". . . .......2007-02-17

Compared to the great 1981 version of the Day of the Triffids, this Howard Keel version is really pathetic.

The 1981 version for some crazy reason has not been made available for the USA. We need it! It is much closer to the great book by John Wyndham. It seems to me when it was first released it was shown both on USA and British TV.

The 1981 version was produced by David Maloney and starred John Duttine and Emma Relph. It really gives you the creeps in the same way the greatest horror movies of aliens wiping us out, such as 'Body Snatchers,' has you looking over your shoulder for weeks afterward. But this 1962, badly reproduced hollywood version? Forget about it.

Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection

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If You Like Ingmar Bergman's Films
Wanting to believe, but lacking faith
CRITERION COLLECTION OF "THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST"
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Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
Starring: Claude Laydu , Jean Riveyre , André Guibert , Rachel Bérendt , and Nicole Maurey
Director: Robert Bresson
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ASIN: B000127IF2
Release Date: 2004-02-03

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Diary of a Country Priest is the first masterpiece by the great Robert Bresson, a towering and slow-working figure in French cinema. Starkly adapted from a successful novel by Georges Bernanos, the film locks in to the mind of a sickly, ineffective young priest trapped in an unfriendly rural area. Bresson charts the priest's collapse with a series of brief scenes, a minimalist style that makes the slightest touch of a hand or far-off sound of a dog barking seem magnified in importance. (This is a movie that must be watched and listened to--it is not a casual experience.) Bresson's luminous portrait of faith and worldly humiliations takes on the intensity of a saint's notebook. In the central role is Claude Laydu, one of Bresson's early experiments with non-actors; his sad, open face is often in close-up, lighting our way into a world of private salvation. --Robert Horton

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A young priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish, but the apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. The fourth film by Robert Bresson (Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne) finds the director beginning to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue and the music, and exacting a purity of image and sound. The DVD also features an audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie, deleted scenes and the trailer.

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EXCELLENT REISSUE BY CRITERION OF THIS ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR ANY CATHOLIC OR ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING.......2007-03-30

Certainly the novel by Georges Bernanos entitled Journal d'un cure de campagne created its alarm in its day as it exposed some of the less spiritual and more secular realities of society, and yet it is a deeply insightful and still troubling examination of a young priest struggling to live with spiritual authenticity his difficult vocation as a diocesan priest in a strange cold town while slowly dying of stomach cancer.

Fortunately Bernanos portrays this priest as a gifted and careful writer who maintains an intimate diary. Therefore this novel, in the old style of Liaisons Dangerueses, presents its narrative in the guise of discovered records now published. It is therefore impossible to film.

Yet Bresson does so admirably and faithfully and sincerely, and with great talent, technique and wisdom. Thankfully the great Criterion offers us a wonderful reprint restored very recently by which we may view again and again this wonderful, subtle, moving film. My only choking point of course are the subtitles which go invisible against a white background and appear so intrusively against the black background of the young asthetic priest's pre-Vatican cassock, but then the French for the most part is spoken so slowly and carefully that we can follow the original with practice, which is always for the best in any case. It is also accompanied by the priest clearly chronicling in his journal the words we hear repeated, as we watch him write across the big screen, and thus this film from the start graciously supplies its own subtitles in the original.

One great advanatge of this Criterion edition is the brilliant commentary. For once this is helpful, unlike for example the ubiquitous Mr. Carpenter in similar overdubbed commentaries, where the speaker mumbles like someone who believes they know much and actually parrot inanities which make you want to reach forward to the cinema seat before you and shyly demand their silence. Here the optional commentary as said before is brilliant, helpful, gracious, utterly informative and thought provoking, including when the nephew of the Count speaks of his fleeing for the Foreign Legion and the commentator draws a parallel explicitly to the current rush to war in Iraq with the grotesquely heretical hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers!"

Every Catholic should see this film to remember life before the Second Vatican Council, in the time between the two wars, and the loneliness of our parish priets in their spiritual struggle as quasi-hermits in the wilderness. It is a delight to see the old vestments, kissed at the embrodiered cross, and to hear the Latin blessing with proper gestures. It is interesting to see the villagers's presuming our contemporary infamous evil in the priest's regard for the little girls he prepares for First Holy Communion.

The commentator again provides useful information regarding the actor's preparation for this role. Yet as with any commentary no matter how excellent, we can neer take it as the last word. Indeed, we may read the young dying priest as archetype for the death of a way of life in the light of coming technological wonders and a new way of life. In another century he would have died alone slowly like a dog, as portrayed here, offering up his suffering and physical pain. Then we see him crossing the huge new train station in Lille struck by wonder and revelation as if in a modern secular cathedral. Surely this epiphany opens us to a jungian reading. It must at least bring us to reach for this amazon's access to old copies of Bernanos and associated commentaries as cited by Critierion's delightfully informative commentator.

Truly this is a film which merits a place in your DVD and/or theological library. More than five stars.

If You Like Ingmar Bergman's Films.......2007-03-12

Robert Bresson is not a widely known film-maker like Ingmar Bergman.
I started collecting his films after seeing this film.
I rate him one of the master film-makers like the aforementioned auteur, M. Antonioni, L.Malle, J. Renoir, L. Viconti & A. Kurosawa.

Wanting to believe, but lacking faith.......2006-10-07

This film by Robert Bresson is beautiful and sad. Made in the same ambience and tone as his 'Au Hazard Bathasar' but not as exciting as it. I don't know where you are coming from, but if you are interested in intimistic and basically plotless cinema, as can be found in foreign (and old) movies, Bresson is a good choice. But if your reason is that of making a spiritual journey, or or widening your faith, then, you must be warned.

'Diary...' is pure doubt. The doubt of the main character, the rural priest, and the doubt of the director. The tone and the sadness of the experience of watchibng this film is what mostly impresses me. Other than that, what stays in my mind at the end of the story are the following thoughts:

a) The story-teller (Bresson) makes us reflect on the inutily of believing in God, or in acting as if God exists, for if He does exist, life in the present, my circumstance, reality, now, what I feel, the cancer I suffer, the the pain I feel, is so real, so more real than that God of Love I want to believe in but I doubt. This is the impression that this film is communicating me.

b) Everybody is cruel. This people don't even deserve my love for them. How can I love them. Why should I be different? It would be crazy. What would my argument be sustained on (the case of the young priest) in order to prove these people wrong in their believes and in their actions? God, his mercy and love? They look at me and they despise me! Or they pity me like a fool!

Sad. So this is not really a story, it is just a depiction of a tormented soul, of the realization that we are so imperfect, so weak (would Bresson even say "sinful"?), a fool-on-the-moon's lament. A cry in the wasteland.

What do you do when you are hungry? Do you eat the food, or do you cry at it and blame it for being hungry? Same with God.

There is a certain resemblance between this film and the way the great historian Arnold Toynbee depicts disintegrating societies: There is a sense of drift, in which people yield to a meaningless determinism, as if their efforts do not matter, and as if they have no control over their lives. There is a sense of guilt, a self-loathing that comes from their moral abandon.

Drift and guilt. These nouns apply as well to the young priest's parishioners. The whole postmodern pandemonium.

CRITERION COLLECTION OF "THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST".......2006-01-08

Possibly the diary itself should have been excluded in this transition of the Georges Bernanos novel to film. The book allowed the diary passages, which by book's end swelled in emotional intensity, to serve as evidence to the sainthood of the young country priest who believes himself a failure at uplifting the spirit of his depressed parish. Here, the diary passages, although sometimes humanely profound, contol the film systematically as a tool to forward the plot, and never successfully reveal the character.

If you've never been moved by French author, Bernanos' powerful book, it's cinema counterpart may seem only dull and religious. If you have taken the book to heart however, there is a lot to admire here. The cold rural atmosphere can be felt like a chill to the bone in the bold, stark, black and white cinematography. The character actors surrounding the priest are a solid wall of antagonizing support. The young priest's joyous motorcycle ride is captured exactly as the book intended, as an unexpected escape from his mundane and painful life.

Claude Layduin, in the title role, is often moving as the sole god-fearing man in a village of depraved religious intention, but his wise, godlike stares away from the camera, as if into the mist, upset the ignorance and humility of the character, who never for a moment believes himself to be worthy of God, the essence of the novel.

This classic French film seems to be a victim of mixed reviews since it's 1950 premier. It would seem admirers of the book will also admire the film. Those unaware of the novel, may find it's greatest aspects here as well.

Beyond Words.......2005-10-29

Bresson is in a class by himself.He isn't so much a filmmaker as a poet, a haiku poet at that. His images are out of a dream or else they evoke the language of the spirit not the flesh. You can feel hypnotized by the pace of his films only to wake up and have his vision seared into your psyche forever. This film is told in strange and haunting scenes. The Country Priest in the title is a young man, pale, solemn and sincere and ultimately doomed. He is like Jesus in that he sees the beauty of the world but suffers from the beauty. He is reviled for his purity and his innocence is his undoing. In many ways it is hard to explain the character or the film but it is like a cloud of smoke on a cool, wet day in the turning of the season.

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This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?
crude, but this is the stuff of memories
The Horror Classic "Day Of The Triffids" is ownworthy!
A great movie to watch
This is the WRONG "Day of the Triffids". . .

Day of the Triffids
Starring: Howard Keel , Nicole Maurey , Janette Scott , Kieron Moore , and Mervyn Johns
Director: Steve Sekely , and Freddie Francis
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When Worlds Collide
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ASIN: 6302890756
Release Date: 1993-08-15

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This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?.......2007-06-06

crude, but this is the stuff of memories.......2007-05-29

The Horror Classic "Day Of The Triffids" is ownworthy!.......2007-04-08

A great movie to watch .......2007-03-27

This is the WRONG "Day of the Triffids". . . .......2007-02-17

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Not Historically Accurate, But Entertaining
Alternate Universe Kansas
The Jayhawkers an Entertaining Western

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Starring: Jeff Chandler , Fess Parker , Nicole Maurey , Henry Silva , and Herbert Rudley
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ASIN: 630199616X
Release Date: 1998-01-01

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Not Historically Accurate, But Entertaining.......2005-02-12

The Jayhawkers is a perfect example of good entertainment that isn't necessarily factual. Lots of liberties are taken with truth about the Jayhawkers, their location, and activities.

The important thing is that the movie, starring Fess Parker (of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett fame) and Jeff Chandler is exciting, entertaining and fun to watch. Parker plays an ex-con who is forced to infiltrate the Jayhawkers, led by Chandler.

Don't watch movies for historical accuracy. Watch them because they're fun!

Alternate Universe Kansas.......2001-03-30

This is a hard film to review. It's a pretty good movie, a good western... but as a film about the Jayhawkers in 1850's Kansas it's so wildly inaccurate and far from any resemblance to history that it almost defies belief.

Fess Parker is good as the brooding, undecided not-quite-outlaw, and the rest of the cast is fine as well. The moral ambiguity is well done too. It's just the scenario that's the problem. This stuff just didn't happen, and in places that didn't exist.

They have Fess Parker's character having been settled in Kansas before the Mexican War when Kansas wasn't really opened to settlement until years after. Then they have the army fighting the Jayhawkers for control of the kingdom of Kansas (which has a lot of astonishingly large, well-built towns in it). The Jayhawkers are a para-military band whose raids--in this movie--are entirely in Kansas, against Kansans. Missouri, which was the real target of the real Jayhawkers gets one token mention, then we're back to raids in Kansas. The real Jayhawkers were horsethieves who raided into Missouri, occassionally kidnapping a slave so they could claim to be abolitionists (to be fair, a few were genuine abolitionists). The movie's Jayhawkers wore "Redlegs" leggings but no mention of Jennison is made. There's also not a single African-American in the entire movie though there's a brief mention of--I think they called them--"Missouri Redlegs" killing a lady's husband after asking his opinion of slavery.

It's bizarre. It's like they had the script for a stock western then went through and inserted a few pre-Civil War Kansas-Missouri border war phrases without bothering to find out anything about them. The women's costumes were decidedly not 1850s--looked more like generic 1870's-80's Hollywood western outfits. And the weapons... I'm not an expert on 1850's weapons but it struck me as more than passingly odd that everyone had such very fine repeating rifles. Oh, and a big chunk of the plot relied on the very extensive railroad that existed in this universe's 1850's Kansas.

As a nice old western, this is a fine little adventure movie. The video was crisp and the colors bright. Good action. As an historically based movie... no.

The Jayhawkers an Entertaining Western.......2000-08-18

This is an odd little Western set in the 1850s, with Jeff Chandler and Fess Parker on opposite sides of the law. Chandler, as Luke Darcy, plays a very noble yet misguided self-appointed leader of a band of outlaws bent on seeing his vision of society's mores come to fruition. Chandler brings integrity and determination to his role. Parker is always good in his homespun way. Henry Silva is also on hand demonstrating his wry presence. The film's greatest asset (and probably why I always liked this film) is its score by Jerome Moross, best known for "The Big Country." If you listen close you can hear strains of his theme for the TV show "Wagon Train." The VHS color print is vivid.

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Love the movie, not the defective DVD
See Janette Scott Fight Triffids That Spit Poison And Kill
The Better Quality DVD
Better than you might think...
Day of the Triffids - Wide Screen

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Starring: Howard Keel , Steve Sekely , Nicole Maurey , and Kieron Moore
Director: Howard Keel
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ASIN: B0000BZNH8
Release Date: 2006-01-10

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Love the movie, not the defective DVD.......2004-12-19

On my Sony, the Cheezy Flicks DVD release I received this week strugged and failed about 4 minutes into chapter 17 as the guy in the lighthouse was in the process of hosing down some triffids. Chapter 18 wouldn't play either. I've seen a couple of similar comments posted elsewhere on the Internet about the last chapter or last few minutes.

This version also seems shortened vs. the release I've seen on TV a couple of times. I thought there was supposed to be an early scene where a gang a young tuffs was roaming the streets making trouble for people including a young woman (then our hero stepped in to save her). I couldn't find that scene in this DVD, so if someone else has please do speak up.

The back of the box says 4:3 aspect ratio. A sheet inside mentions letterbox and it played in letterbox format on my TV. Coloring seemed okay for an old flick to me, though unremarkable.

Although I'd rate the original movie 5 stars in its category, the DVD I received had a playback problem and seemed short.

See Janette Scott Fight Triffids That Spit Poison And Kill.......2004-06-03

My star rating is based on the Cheezy Flicks DVD release. The movie gets four+ stars IMHO!

THE MOVIE: This clever classic from the days of my youth is still exciting to watch today. Although the idea of killer plants may seem cheesy, the mass blindness and resulting hysteria add that apocalyptic taste I so love! The Triffids don't move very fast, but they do make scary noises... and that's a good thing. The action is well paced and the camera work is interesting. Ultimately, this is sort of like a zombie flick, but instead of zombies we have killer space plants.

THIS DVD: The ONLY thing this DVD has going for it is that it's widescreen. The back of the box says, "4:3 Aspect Ratio" and, "Digitally Remastered"; both statements are wrong. The color is dull and a little pink, which is really sad for a film that made such dramatic, stylistic use of color. The print is pretty clean most of the way through except at reel changes and towards the end, buts that's forgivable. What is NOT forgivable is that the last chapter of this DVD is a pixilated, skipping, jacked-up mess that is totally impossible to watch (I checked on multiple players to be sure). I returned my first DVD and the replacement had exactly the same problem, which tells me that the problem is with "Cheezy Flicks" and their poor quality DVDs. Recently, fly-by-night DVD publishers like this have been showing up on Amazon charging top dollar for discs that belong in the bargain bins. No matter how much I love this movie, this is one of those bargain bin discs. However, BOTH current DVD versions of this film have little to recommend, other than the film itself.

The Better Quality DVD.......2004-05-02

The movie Day of the Triffids has always been a favorite. I have been waiting for years to add this movie to my DVD collection. The Chezzy Flicks release brought the movie out in letterbox the way the movie was filmed. The picture and sound quality are certainly acceptable and much better than the poor quality Allied Artist release. As others have mentioned, the color is washed out and it does not look like a new transfer, but it is the best quality version available at this time. If you must add this film to your own collection, go with the Chezzy Flicks release.

Better than you might think..........2004-04-29

I saw this film when it first came out. I loved it then and I love it now. The Widescreen version is great, though the colors have faded badly, and this "remastered" version isn't "re-imagined". The sound is fine, though, and with a little imagination, the film comes off well (I DO miss some of the colorful landscapes...the greens & reds are very washed-out, and this IS a film about plants!). A later-career performance by Howard Keel is solid, as is the performance of Nicole Maurey (her red hair comes thru!). The important scenes involving Kieron Moore and Janette Scott, filmed separately, were integrated well. There were no cast lists, but the performance of the little girl was wonderful, whomever she may be. I hate bad kid-actors. This IS a fine film; I remember the critics praising this film. I know director Sekely has made other films that I admire that I can't recall. This is definitly worth a look. John Wyndham's book is well translated to the screen. The goofy extras at the beginning are fun, though you can't forward to the film without watching them...

Day of the Triffids - Wide Screen.......2003-09-09

I love the movie Day of the Triffids. This second release brought the movie out in letterbox the way the movie was filmed which is way better. But the quality is not that great. The colour is washed out and it does not look like a new transfer or remastered like the write up says. It is a pricey DVD for the quality of this movie and not being a well known company that put it out. There is also cheapy ad's before the movie starts.
But it is good to have it wide screen at least.

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Wise and Winning!
A Movie that is WAY Too Good For Its Title
A warm hearted tale of a simpler time
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Wise and Winning!.......2006-08-16

This is a gem of a movie, unfortunately largely overlooked. I think Danny Kaye gives his best performance here, in a long career of wonderful performances. And the plot offers something for almost everyone, without in the least being a pandering smear of action.

Men to whom I recommended this film liked it for its recreation of conditions in World War II France. The tanks, the Germans sweeping in to occupy, the grim choice faced by the local residents of the occupied towns - to cope, to conciliate, or to combat.

All the women to whom I've recommended this film liked the romance. With its hint of the possibility of polyandry to come, this movie was ahead of its time, without stooping to the crasser implications of the modern meaning of "a threesome."

I have also recommended this movie to anyone involved in any 12-step program or any program designed to overcome phobias. Faced with a tough situation, Danny Kaye reminds himself of his motto, "There are always two possibilities." He doesn't allow himself to get boxed in. A motivational speaker could endlessly recite this philosophy to anyone suffering from agoraphobia or social phobia. But that wouldn't have the impact of actually seeing Danny Kaye put his motto into play in such an engaging way.

I suppose a hyper-politically correct person might find a grain of stereotyping here. Kurt Jurgens, also in what I consider to be his best performance, plays a Polish officer - big, bluff, and yes, a little "dumb." And Danny Kaye plays a Jewish refugee who is, yes, rather "resourceful," and who relies on this resourcefulness to get him through. However I don't think anyone could ultimately object to this mote of stereotyping, because overall, both Kaye and Jurgens prove themselves to be such winning, incomparable individuals - they transcend any attempts to fit them into a mold.

This is a must-see movie. It will lighten your heart. It will leave you feeling more hopeful - about humanity and about your own future. After watching it, you too will realize that, even confronted by the most dire circumstances, you always have at least "two possibilities."

A Movie that is WAY Too Good For Its Title.......2006-07-12

I've read the other reviews and echo their sentiments. I too saw this movie many many years ago on late night TV. I fell in love with it immediately. So I lament the really stupid title because it makes the movie sound lame instead of the beautiful combination of acting, story and script that should be in everyone's top 25 films. It's funny, warm and sweet without being schlocky or corny. In the cathedral of my heart, a candle will always be burning for it. It is available (if you are lucky enough to find it) in VHS. But, as the movie teaches, in life there are always two possibilities. I'm waiting for the DVD.

A warm hearted tale of a simpler time.......2005-07-06

I don't know exactly why I keep coming back to this film. I first saw it late one night on television, in a time slot reserved for insomniacs who have nothing better to do. I loved everything I had seen Danny Kaye in, so I watched and was immediately entranced. The story involves the charming and sensitive Yakobowski (Danny Kaye) as a Jewish refugee trying to flee from the German onslaught of the occupation of France. He teams quite accidentally with the bull headed Polish Colonel (Kurt Jurgens) who needs to escape to England. Of him, Kaye relates "You, my colonel have the finest mind of the twelve century. Unfortunately, we are in the Twentieth century." The 2 are in no way similar, except for their goal to escape the occupation. Where one is bold to the point of reclessness {"For a real man there is only one possibility!"), the other is cautious, and open to alternatives. Through the tale, the two function better than either can alone ("Together we make a hero.") and pass beyond bigotry to genuine friendship. It is a sweet tale of optimism and hope, painted with broad brush strokes.

I come back and back to this movie because of this, just to re-experience "my two possibilities." You will love this film.

Wanna smile with a warm feeling?.......2002-01-29

I never forgot this movie after having seen it 30 years ago. When its title was found while searching amongst Danny's films I remembered the story as if it was yesterday. I immediately purchased a copy to show my family, and my son watched it a second time immediately.
As a Jew in France during the Nazi period, Danny's Jacobowsky is in very great danger, out of necessity he teams with a Polish colonel to leave France. The "HOW" of this is humorous(!) and heart-warming. The Jurgens' Colonel and Kay's Jacobowsky compliment each other wonderfully; one is brave the other not, one is clever the other not, one is handsome the other not, one is sensible the other not, etc.
You'll smile time after time throughout the movie!

Wanna smile with a warm feeling?.......2002-01-29

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This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?
crude, but this is the stuff of memories
The Horror Classic "Day Of The Triffids" is ownworthy!
A great movie to watch
This is the WRONG "Day of the Triffids". . .

Day of the Triffids
Starring: Howard Keel , Nicole Maurey , Janette Scott , Kieron Moore , and Mervyn Johns
Director: Steve Sekely , and Freddie Francis
Manufacturer: Hollywood Movie Classics
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

Johns, Mervyn | ( J ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Keel, Howard | ( K ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Scott, Janette | ( S ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Francis, Freddie | ( F ) | Directors | VHS | Video

Sekely, Steve | ( S ) | Directors | VHS | Video

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When Worlds Collide
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Them!
Target Earth
It Came From Outer Space

ASIN: 6300159140
Release Date: 1987-03-25

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This version from Cheezy.... missing audio ?.......2007-06-06

crude, but this is the stuff of memories.......2007-05-29

The Horror Classic "Day Of The Triffids" is ownworthy!.......2007-04-08

A great movie to watch .......2007-03-27

This is the WRONG "Day of the Triffids". . . .......2007-02-17

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EXCELLENT REISSUE BY CRITERION OF THIS ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR ANY CATHOLIC OR ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING
If You Like Ingmar Bergman's Films
Wanting to believe, but lacking faith
CRITERION COLLECTION OF "THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST"
Beyond Words

Diary of a Country Priest
Starring: Claude Laydu , Jean Riveyre , André Guibert , Rachel Bérendt , and Nicole Maurey
Director: Robert Bresson
Manufacturer: Kino Video
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

Danet, Jean | ( D ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

General | Art House & International | Genres | VHS | Video

Religion | Drama | Genres | VHS | Video

Bresson, Robert | ( B ) | Directors | VHS | Video
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ASIN: B00005LE3P
Release Date: 2001-07-24

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EXCELLENT REISSUE BY CRITERION OF THIS ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR ANY CATHOLIC OR ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING.......2007-03-30

If You Like Ingmar Bergman's Films.......2007-03-12

Wanting to believe, but lacking faith.......2006-10-07

CRITERION COLLECTION OF "THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST".......2006-01-08

Beyond Words.......2005-10-29

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A Taut Chiller!!

Very Edge
Starring: Anne Heywood , Richard Todd , Jack Hedley , Nicole Maurey , and Jeremy Brett
Director: Cyril Frankel
Manufacturer: Vid America
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

Brett, Jeremy | ( B ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Denham, Maurice | ( D ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

Todd, Richard | ( T ) | Actors & Actresses | VHS | Video

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Frankel, Cyril | ( F ) | Directors | VHS | Video

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Release Date: 1989-12-07

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A Taut Chiller!!.......2002-03-05

A British thriller from 1963, this movie concerns a young wife who is the victim of a psychotic stalker. Filmed in Hitchcockian style, it kept me on the edge of my seat. Not only does the story concern itself with the stalker, but also the terrifying events cause the main character (played wonderfully by Anne Heywood) to reexamine her own deep inner feelings and her personal life as well. A young Jeremy Brett makes an excellent psycho--hard to believe that many years later he would bring the wonderful detective Sherlock Holmes to life as no actor has done before or since. If you like old-fashioned thrillers, you will love this movie. The fact that it is in black and white seems to add to the atmosphere. A nice film which deserves more attention then it has gotten.

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Day of the Triffids
Starring: NICOLE MAUREY , and MERVYN JOHNS
Director: STEVE SEKELY
Manufacturer: ALPHA VIDEO DIST.
ProductGroup: Video
Binding: VHS Tape

FULL SCREEN
IN COLOR
RUNS 95 MINUTES
FILMED IN 1963
VIDEO ISSUED IN 1997

ASIN: B000J0ILJI

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VHS VIDEO MOVIE CALLED "THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS". FILMED IN 1963 FULL-SCREEN COLOR, RUNS 95 MIN., NOT RATED! SCI-FI THRILLER ABOUT MAN-EATING PLANTS ATTACKING PEOPLE. SAFE FOR KIDS!?

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