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A CLASSIC LONG OVERLOOK WARNER BRO. DVD, ITS AS GOOD AS "THE DAMMED"
"THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE." This spectacular film is a world-renowned classic of love and war. It was released in Cinemascope by MGM in 1961. A Julian Blaustein Production, Directed by Vincente Minnellii, that features an international cast of actors spanning two continents. Starring: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb and Paul Heinreid, Co-starring: Paul Lucas, Yvette Mimeux and Kael Boehm. Screenplay by Robert Ardrey and John Gay. Based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibañez. <
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>The story starts in 1938 at a large state in Argentina just when the world is poised on the brink of WWII. It brings together three generations of a wealthy family of French and German ancestry at a bash reunion to celebrate the birthday of its multi-millionaire absolute ruler and patriarch. <
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>It's a searing drama in which the Nazi monster sets brother against brother, while following this family's destructive linkup to the siniester horrors of Nazi Germany in Europe. <
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>A perfect match for another very profitable Warner Brothers's DVD released dealing with this Nazi subject matter: The legendary Luchino Visconti's "THE DAMNED." <
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>This fascinating Hollywood's feature film, whose copyrights are now owned by TIME-WARNER INC. through their "MGM/UA Turner Film Library" is unfortunately still sitting idle at this studio "Classic Films Vault." Been regrettably neglected by the company executives without any official date for its anamorphic widescreen restoration released on DVD. <
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>A tragic case of a terrible oversight and abadom, particularly when the lessons presented by this movie plot, can be very apropos for the times we live. Please TIME -WARNER hear the cries from this reviewer and made a resounding success DVD from this pre-vietnam era feature film. THANKS!!!! <
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George Dolenz should've had more of a part
Even tho this is one of George Dolenz's last films before his death in 1963. This movie had a bit of a chill on what was it like during the war. I think (since I run a site on George) he should've been seen more in it than in the mid point, then at the very end...but still casted. I don't know what was up with that.

If you are a fan of movies that were made around this time that take place in another war, this has to be one of your films then. But Glenn Ford did a marvelous job in this film, this would have to go on your list if you are a fan of his. But I enjoyed this movie, wouldn't be in my top 10 list it would maybe be in my top 20 of films of the Dolenzes.

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This is a bad movie.
Those people with five stars for this must betongue-in-cheek.

I was going along with this movie for the first twenty minutes. I was rolling over laughing. The film's title is reinforced periodically throughout the two and a half hours with these horsemen-in-the-clouds images. But this is not really the bad part of the movie.

Some of the marginal characters might have been interesting, but the central character is Julio. Julio is a gutless, selfish, unimaginative playboy. Glenn Ford so convicingly played Julio as oblivious to the surrounding circumstances that I found it very difficult to remember that he's not supposed to be an actor in 1961. Nevertheless, I got the impression that the viewer is supposed to sympathise with him. And the melodramatic music, never subtle, always seems to follow his self-absorbed emotions. Personally, I was begging for any character in the movie to punch this guy in the face, knock him down, and let's look for somebody worthwhile to follow around Paris.

With the plot following Julio, it never lives up to the passion of the grandfather's stormy kickoff. We mostly watch Julio's attempts at romancing Marguerite get interrupted by what to him are the annoyances of war. The juxtaposition of the two cousins, Julio and Heinrich, is never given much depth since Heinrich is simply a dead-set Nazi from beginning to end, and Julio doesn't believe in anything or care about anyone from beginning to end. (And no similarity to Rick in Casablanca.) Unlike some movies which add depth to their subject, this one just really hangs on war for what drama it can steal from it. Two stars, just for the scenery, nothing terribly offensive, and the first twenty minutes with the grandfather in Argentina. END