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Something for Everyone [VHS] | ![Something for Everyone [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5187PFNKQKL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Harold Prince
Actors: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Heidelinde Weis, Jane Carr
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Category: Video
Buy New: $127.95
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 13652
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301802373
UPC: 086162717437
EAN: 9786301802376
ASIN: 6301802373
Release Date: November 20, 1986
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angela's best kept secret June 8, 2009
JC Another
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I do not have this movie at home - but I will snatch it up Immediately when it comes out on DVD! It is hard for me to believe it isn't out already, as it is one of my all time favorite movie memories.
I saw this flick, actually, when i was 18 years old, and a freshman in college - in Munich (Germany), which is about an hour or less from the location of the very famous castle where it was filmed. It's one of the many places built by King Ludwig - mostly by pludering the Bavarian treasury. Some of you may know Neuschvanstein - sp? as the castle used in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", as well.
Anyhew - I never forgot this film. It was way ahead of its time, and seems to be one of those films that you either caught when it came out - and loved! - or have never heard of. Michael York is amazing, and Angela Lansbury is brilliant as the matriarch of this extremely disfunctional family. I hope that they are doing a good DVD job on this one - and that there will be some commentary by its stars, if at all possible.
Bring on the DVD, Please! May 27, 2009
Thomas W. Altizer (Arlington, VA, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This brilliant black comedy was unjustly overlooked when it came out but it is a treasure to be sought. The cast is first rate and Hal Prince's direction (yes, THAT Hal Prince) is concise. Angela Lansbury sparkles and Michael York is brilliant. The crisp script will leave you smiling at the conclusion. Not to be missed!
Please someone, put out a high-quality DVD of this gem!
 Brilliant performances and material. director no prince August 17, 2006
John Ellis (New York, NY United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A hilarious black comedy, sort of a Eurotrash version of "The Loved One", with Angela Lansbury's best performance on film, and Michael York and the rest of the cast not lagging. The fly in the butter (a Southern expression) is the direction by Hal Prince. Prince is a brilliant stage producer and delegator of duties there, but as a film director, as evidenced by this and his "Little Night Music", he is wretched. He seldom knows where to put the camera, watching his transitions between scenes you feel like you're in a car that just ran through a wall. Elizabeth Taylor would never have really worked in "Little", but it's nearly tragic that this film didn't have a competent director. It deserves a much larger audience than it ever got. It should be out on DVD, as the video scans and pans (no doubt all doubts about Prince will disappear in widescreen). Anyone who loves Sondheim, dark comedy, androgenous sex comedy and who can endure the whiplash of Prince's editing should get hold of this. I wish someone could get hold of the raw footage and direct and edit a salvage of what is still nearly a great film.
summer camp July 8, 2006
M. FUSCO (NEW YORK, NY)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This celebrated black comedy from 1970 marked the directorial debut of legendary Broadway producer Harold Prince. It has justly earned cult status and a devoted following due, in great part, to Angela Lansbury's remarkable virtuoso performance. She has flawless support from the delectable Michael York, a very seductive young Anthony Corlan, and gifted Jane Carr.
Against a picture-perfect Bavarian backdrop, Konrad (York) rides into town sporting the sexiest legs ever seen in cycling shorts. He pauses to admire Castle Ornstein with visions of grandeur dancing in his head, and we get another gander at those gorgeous gams. He quickly `arranges' (and therein lies the fun) a job as footman to the impoverished Countess von Ornstein (Lansbury), focusing his attentions on her beautiful, lonely son Helmut (Corlan). An epicurean choice, as Helmut is as physically stunning as Konrad. His sister Lotte (Carr), is improbably dumpy, frumpy, annoying, and furtive. She has Konrad's number right off the bat, though, and asks him which he is, murderer or pervert. His response is congenial and commendably candid.
Simultaneously, Konrad dupes a snobbish, social-climbing family, debauching their beautiful, lonely daughter. So, his perpetual pursuit of passion, power, and position proceeds apace: he has it - and them - all. But his baroque scheme suddenly begins to career dangerously out of control. The end, with several clever twists, bears mercilessly down upon poor Konrad.
The talent and beauty of Michael York and Anthony Corlan notwithstanding, the film belongs to Angela Lansbury. Her every gesture and movement bespeak consummate skill, drama, humor, and camp. Few actors could pull off such theatrical monologues as she does, with the command of Callas incarnating Tosca.
Mr. Prince underscores the operatic nature of his story by introducing Wagner early in the film. Tristan und Isolde personify the intensity, if not the incandescence of his perfect protagonists. Even with its delicious, decidedly 70's bisexuality and social outlook, this minor masterpiece remains fresh as a daisy after 35 years. It deserves the full DVD treatment, lovingly re-mastered and in wide-screen.
Deliciously Evil April 29, 2003
the wizard of uz (Studio City, CA United States)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
The film opens with Conrad (Michael York) bicycling through a lovely forest in Germany. He stops for a rest and looks up at a majestic castle perched on a hill, then opens a storybook--at which point "Fairy Tale " music starts playing in the background as the pages turn to reveal the film's credits.Thus begins the best dark comedy since " Kind Hearts and Coronets " The castle is inhabited by the widowed Countess (Angela Lansbury ) and her two teenagers. They are upper class but impoverished since the war. "How odd " says Lansbury (who has never been better) " to have to concern oneself with the price of strawberries ". This is directed at her solicitor/accountant. When he replies with some bromide about how times change and how we all must adapt she seethingly counters with: " Not eagles, even in captivity they just sit there and glare " The countess is a descendant of Attila the Hun. Conrad enters into their lives as a lowly servant. Well he doesn't enter, exactly, he casually commits murder to make a vacancy for himself, seduce the (well everyone, really) and set into motion a scheme to make his childhood dream come true; to become the lord of a castle---with millions to spare. Conrad, wonderfully played by York, joins the ranks of Richard the Third, Professor Moriarty and Orson Welle's 'Harry Lime ' in 'The Third Man' as one of the most engaging and absolute villains ever created, and for the same reasons: He is a logical genius, who anticipates every ruthlessly evil move he makes with flawless cunning. It's all part of his sweet boyish charm. Enjoy.
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