It brought back memories | Anastasia (1956) [VHS]

A FLAMBOYANT ROMANCE FROM THE GOLDEN AGE | Anastasia (1956) [VHS] | Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner

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	• Anastasia (1956) [VHS] Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner 20th Century Fox, 1995 average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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It brought back memories

I had never thought I would have been able to get this movie. My granddaughter really started this whole thing by always talking about the animated version. I told her about the movie I knew and one thing led to another and I got on Amazon and there it was. Then my granddaughter wanted the autobiography of the grand duchess. We have not watched that one yet, she is on vacation in California and when she comes home we will watch it. She loved MY version of Anastasia.

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A FLAMBOYANT ROMANCE FROM THE GOLDEN AGE

Anatole Litvak's ANASTASIA is a lovely romance, generously laced with sardonic wit, and charm. The chemistry between Ingrid Bergman, and Yul Brynner is quite intense, and their performances are enchanting, as is that of the great Helen Hayes. The movie is magical, the color is glorious, and the sound is, unfortunately, sub-standard. A classic like this deserves better.

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Better than not seeing it at all...

This is one of those movie gems one rarely sees on TV anymore, so the only way to see it is to buy the DVD. The film restoration is wonderful, with brilliant colors, but as other reviewers have noted, the technicians totally forgot to work on the soundtrack. In fact, it's almost like they went out of their way to ruin it. The mix is bad -- sometimes the background music/theme track drowns out the dialogue, or the actors sound as if they were speaking their lines inside a 55-gal. drum (echo, tinny, etc.). Bass and treble seem out of whack. The audio listing notes it as "Dolby 4.0," maybe that version was Dolby's only dud? I don't have a surround system with my TV, so I wondered if THAT was the problem; running the sound through an amp and 2 more speakers didn't help much.

3 stars are only for the DVD; the film (plot, acting, etc.) deserves 5.

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Good movie

I bought this for my father. He loves it. It's a good movie.
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Ingrid Bergman gives one of her memorable, haunting, and haunted performances as an amnesiac chosen by a White Russian general (Yul Brynner) in 1928 to play the part of Anastasia, the long-rumored but missing survivor of the Bolsheviks' murderous attack on the czar's family. The twist is that Bergman's mystery woman seems to know more about the lost Anastasia than she is told. Based on the play by Marcelle Maurette and Guy Bolton, this film--directed by Anatole Litvak (Out of the Fog)--really does get under one's skin, not least of all because of its intriguing story but even more because of the strong chemistry between Bergman and Brynner. --Tom Keogh

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