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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Albert Lewin |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 15 October, 1951 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Kino Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Drama, Movie, Mystery, Mystery / Suspense |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 738329008819 |
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Customer Reviews of Pandora & the Flying Dutchman
Cool and Creamy Ava beguiles us with her dewy gardenia beauty as Pandora Reymolds, untouchable night club singer. This film noir is soft as a ripple of silk and sensuously ghostly. Pandora's mind is another dimension; where the captain is. A romantic ache is created between the lovers and we long for the completion. This movie is delusively calm. <
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>Fine acting, as expected, from James Mason the love-tortured captain Hendrik of The Flying Dutchman, who waits in the jewelled waters of Esperanza, a Spanish seaport, for fulfillment of a legend. Is love an apparition or is it strong enough to pass through the centuries? [[ASIN:6305848750 Pandora and The Flying Dutchman]]
Horrible DVD color transfer
Albert Lewin's 1950 PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN comes from that weird period in the late studio era when filmmakers were fascinated with romantic poetic allegory: it might be classified with PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, and THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, and THE RED SHOES. Glamorous ex-patriate Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner), originally from Indianapolis, but now whooping it up on the Spanish Riviera, destroys every man who falls in love with her until she comes across--of all people--the Flying Dutchman (James Mason). As if the Pandora and Flying Dutchman legends were not enough, Lewin adds elements to the film as well from Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES and Merimée's CARMEN into this strange hodgepodge: when Pandora's friends celebrate a racecar victory by dancing on the sands, it seems appropriate they would dance on the beach among statue fragments from about twenty different cultures. The film is perhaps more confused than it should be, and there's not simply a romantic triangle but something more like a pentagram, with Gardner, Mason, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim (incredibly annoying), and Mario Cabré (a worthy romantic foil for Gardner) occuping the five vertices. There are some moments that will really make you hoot, such as the painting of the mythical Pandora Mason executes that was really painted by Man Ray to look like a Dali by way of De Chirico, but everyone seems much too confused for the film to be a true camp classic. The best things this film has going for it are Gardner's and Cabré's beauty and its famously lush cinematography; unfortunately the DVD transfer here is wretched, with multiple skips and faded colors. It really cries out for an AFI or Criterion full-scale restoration.
Beautiful Ava !!
I love the movie and was wery pleased when it was on DVD !! Ava is as sexy and beautiful as ever !!