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GoldLyrics.com - Deception
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $29.38
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott, Benson Fong
Directed By: Irving Rapper
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301600866
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 630160086X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 110
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1946-10-18
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Summary: Davis, Rains & Henreid Reunite to Ignite the Silver Screen
Comment: Bette Davis is most well known for dominating the leading men with whom she was paired to act. For instance, her impeccable acting clearly over shadowed Bogart's performances. What makes "Deception" different from every other Bette Davis movie is being paired as the mistress of Claude Rains. If ever there was a grossly under-appreciated actor it is Claude Rains. While "Deception" is not his show, because all eyes are upon Davis (and her turquois eyes, as usual), when Rains goes after Davis' character in "Deception" it is the only time in Davis' acting history when a male supporting actor takes control of the lead. "Deception" is as intense a drama as it gets because of the dueling and riveting performances of Davis and Rains. While the plot is 'about' Henreid's character, his performance is in the background even though he was Davis' co-star and played her cellist husband. Rains as Hellenious, the master composer and insanely jealous mentor & former lover of Davis', when contrasted with his performances as Job Skeffington & Dr. Jacquith in "Mr. Skeffington," and "Now, Voyager," respectively, is his master performance in a movie with Bette Davis. Even with that rave on Rains said, Bette Davis matches Rains' intensity and stays in character as Hellenious' underling. The primary scene that exemplifies Davis and Rains going script to script at each other is set in Hellenious' bedroom, after Davis barges past his door boy, prances up his mansion's staircases, bursts into his bedroom where she finds him sitting up in bed reading the newspaper pretending not to be at home. I must also add about all three lead actors, each one does a very convincing job of actually playing the musical instruments they are acting as if playing: especially Henried. "Deception," for these reasons, and so mnay more, is one of my favorite Davis, Rains & Henried flix, if not, thee favorite!
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Summary: Leaves some major questions un-answered
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A "typical" Bette Davis potboiler, but in this one the pot just can't quite reach the boiling point and goes flat. Davis is in love with composer Claude Rains, but suddenly encounters the man she's loved in the past (Paul Henreid) - and the vicious triangle is set up. The old love hasn't died, and she marries Henreid, but decides to keep her affair with Rains a secret from him. Rains is insanely jealous and hurt by her sudden marriage and attempts revenge: he threatens to tell Henreid everything. Davis shoots him just before a big concert (Henreid is a cellist about to premier a new work by Henreid - what a coincidence!).
Some of this doesn't make sense: why the big secret? And hardest of all to figure out is why does she shoot Rains and then tell Henreid everythng anyway? The script, especially the dialogue is prety weak and lifeless, though Rains manages to shine. What's lacking most in this picture is inspiration.
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Summary: Brilliant performances!
Comment: Yes, it's a weak script and a bit camp, but oh those bravura performances from Claude Rains and Bette Davis. (Yes, Raines should have won the Academy Award.) The restaurant scene alone is worth the price of admission. And the music! I cut my classical music teeth on movie scores of the 30's and 40's. I especially loved Bette's apartment. It was interesting to learn that it was patterned after Leonard Bernstein's pad.So much garbage is on the screen these days and the films go right to DVD. Why isn't this film on DVD? MGM, wake up! What's taking you so long? And, while I'm at it, Where are the Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy films? Have you forgotten the glorious voices that made millions for you in the early 30's? How many deceased movie stars still have several active fan clubs! Let's get with it before all the people who really care about quality films are six feet under!
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Summary: idiotic
Comment: I checked this out of the library on the recommendation of Julian Lloyd Webber (in his "Travels with my Cello"). I didn't expect it to good; I expected it to be good fun, like the equally idiotic but inadvertantly hilarious "Humoresque" (another 1946 movie having to do with the fledgling career of a string player, promoted by a dark, emotionally unstable, woman caught between two lovers). Well, I was disappointed. It's idiotic, all right, but it isn't any fun--or, rather, it wouldn't be except that the cello concerto depicted within was written (in real life) by Erich Korngold, and it's brilliant! Six stars for the music; zero stars for the movie.
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Summary: I adore Claude Rains
Comment: The quintessential Rains dominates this flick about a pianist and a cellist (yes, Henreid plays a CELLIST, not a violinist, as so many reviewers here seem to think) who really don't stand a chance up against Rains's wicked wit. There is a truly diabolical scene in which Rains treats the cutesy couple to a potentially magnificent gourmet meal--if only he'd let them get TO it!Good food, good wine, good music, great Rains. Frankly I'd take Claude any day over Paul, yes even in Casablanca.
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