| | Victor/Victoria DVD (3 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Musical DVDs, Comedies Movies, Action Videos, Recommended, Musical, Classic, Essential Cinema, Gay/Lesbian, Scams And Cons, Switching Roles, Musicals/Music Videos, Showbiz, AFI Top 100 Laughs | | Starring | James Garner, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, John Rhys-Davies, Alex Karras, Peter Arne | | Director | Blake Edwards |
Blake Edwards' brilliantly bubbly gender-bender comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston star in an endlessly entertaining bonbon that boasts a marvelous Academy Award-winning score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse. A down-and-out female singer takes a job as a female impersonator and to her surprise becomes the toast of Paris cabarets in the 1930s, delighting her gay mentor and confusing an American admirer. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Actress--Julie Andrews. Academy Awards: Best Original Song Score. Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes her image, introducing her to the cabaret world as Polish female impersonator Victor/Victoria. Victoria, now a woman pretending to be a man in drag, becomes a huge success in the nightclub world. Chicago gangster King Marchan (James Garner) becomes especially intrigued by Victor/Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma (Lesley Anne Warren), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Squash (Alex Karras), who's more than a little concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite. As Marchan tries to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, trying to uncover the truth behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of gender and sexual preference comes into question for all the characters. A director who often shows a willingness to let the seams in his work show for comic effect, Edwards has opted for stylish smoothness here while opening himself to questions of gender that his earlier films had anxiously mocked. Robert Preston steals the film as Victoria's graceful Svengali. Victor/Victoria Reviews: "...VICTOR/VICTORIA is a sparkling, ultra-sophisticated entertainment....This is undoubtedly Andrews' most rewarding role in years..."
-- Cart., Variety "Get ready, get set and go -- IMMEDIATELY -- to [Blake Edwards's] chef d'oeuvre, his cockeyed, crowning achievement, his DUCK SOUP, his CHARLEY's AUNT, his HOTEL PARADISIO, his SOME LIKE IT HOT, his urban AS YOU LIKE IT, and maybe even his CITIZEN KANE....[Andrews is] at peak form..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times Victor/Victoria | List Price | $19.98 (You save $4.29) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1982 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1663  | | CD Universe Part number | 2843346 | | Catalog number | 65203 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 04, 2002 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Also Known As | Victor Victoria | | Running Time | 133 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Anniversary Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Digitally Re-Mastered; Widescreen; Anniversary Edition; Subtitled |
Victor/Victoria Movie Review Victor/Victoria DVD Region 1
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Single Side - Dual Layer
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.85
Letterbox - 2.35
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Film Highlights:
1. Cast
2. Blake Edwards - Director
Audio Commentary:
1. Julie Andrews - Star
2. Blake Edwards - Director
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