Affair To Remember (1957)

Director: Leo McCarey  Starring: Cary Grant  Deborah Kerr  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Foxvideo
Format: DVD
UPC: 00024543454571
Buy.com Sku: 204979706
Item#: V2K6JW
Category Keywords: Essential Cinema  Love Story  New York City  Recommended  Romance  Tear Jerker  Theatrical Release  Tragedy 
Rating: NR
 
20th Century Fox Studio Classics.
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, English, Spanish, Subtitled, Sensormatic
 
In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
 
"A true achievement in filmmaking..."  Los Angeles Times
"...a winner of a fairy tale..."  VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever

 


Editor's Note

In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the wrong man. They finally agree to spend six months apart; if they still love each other at the end of that time, they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. But the path of true love does not always run smooth, and tragedy threatens to tear the couple apart. Leo McCarey directed both the original (LOVE AFFAIR) and this remake, and viewers often amiably battle over which film is the more touching. This much-loved film features the Academy Award-nominated title song and a splendid supporting cast.


Plot Summary

Leo McCarey's lighthearted romance combines with tragedy to tell the tale of two lovers who long to be together but are engaged to others.

 
Features
Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Foxvideo
Release Date: 9/18/2007
Running Time: 119 minutes
Original Release Date: 1957
Catalog ID: 2245459
UPC: 00024543454571
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Cary Grant
Cathleen Nesbitt
Deborah Kerr
Richard Denning
Jack Martin Smith - Art Director
James B. Clark - Editor
Jerry Wald - Producer
Leo McCarey - Director
Leo McCarey - Producer
Leo McCarey, et. al. - Writer
Lyle R. Wheeler - Art Director
Milton R. Krasner - Cinematographer

 
Awards

Nominee (1958)
   Oscar, Milton R. Krasner, Best Cinematography
   Oscar, Charles Le Maire, Best Costume Design
   Oscar, Hugo Friedhofer, Best Music, Scoring
   Oscar, Harry Warren, et. al., Best Music, Original Song

 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER evolves effortlessly, almost invisibly, from light romantic comedy to a kind of spiritual drama, as the characters cast off their public identities and approach their essences..." 01/08/2008

Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "This is a classic, combining romance, drama, comedy and style....A love story, but one that touches the heart..." 04/01/2008 p.88

DVD Town 8 of 10
"I mean, where would ""Sleepless in Seattle"" be without ""An Affair to Remember""? The Empire State Building and all...""An Affair to Remember"" is writer-director Leo McCarey's 1957 remake of his own film, ""Love Affair,"" from some twenty years earlier, remarkably, a picture remade yet another time 1994 with Warren Beatty. Obviously, there's a lot of life in this story line, and we're bound to see it trotted out again in some new guise in the future. Regardless, it works if you're in the mood for romance, but it will seem like a sudsy tearjerker if you're not. I found it worked pretty well. Maybe I was in the mood...""An Affair to Remember"" is a film that had I seen it in 1957 when I was in about the seventh grade, I would have gagged. But now that I'm older, the world looks different, and I'm more receptive to this film's type of unabashed schmaltz. It's done me no harm." - John J. Puccio
 

  
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