Paramount
September 2, 1953
Romcom
DVD
C+
C+
The only other time I saw this was almost 40 years ago in a Latin class, where most of the students were bored but I was already a vintage-film fan. This time, well, it's a bit creepy, and 37-year-old Gregory Peck seems much too old for 24-year-old Audrey Hepburn, because of their different images. (There's a similar problem in Sabrina from the following year, although Bogie at 54, and a couple years from death, really was too old for her.) I watched the whole thing but would've give a C if the "happy ending" was the main couple getting together. Still, Hepburn remains luminous and Rome is Rome, so yeah, it's watchable. Plus, Eddie Green Acres Albert as a bearded proto-beatnik photographer named Irving is worth something.
Blacklisted Dalton Trumbo wrote under a pseudonym, while William Wyler directed.
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