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Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1954 DVD Release: 06/30/1998 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: Madacy Total Copies: 7 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Melodrama See Also: The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Love Songs From the Movies [2 CDs/DVD], The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Love Songs From the Movies [CD/DVD], The Last Time I Saw Paris, Last Time I Saw Paris, Last Time I Saw Paris [Blu-ray]

Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by director Richard Brooks. In his last film as an MGM contractee, Van Johnson plays reporter Charles Wills, who while covering the VE Day celebrations in Paris, meets and falls in love with the gorgeous Helen Ellsworth (Elizabeth Taylor). Soon afterward, Charles and Helen are married. Charles supports his wife with a low-paying wire service job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, Charles is more than willing to give up writing and live off the revenue of a Texas oil well in which he'd invested. As he squanders his newfound riches on creature comforts, he loses his literary ambitions and, slowly but surely, the love and devotion of his wife. His self-destructive behavior is halted only by a devastating tragedy. Donna Reed costars as Charles sister-in-law Marion, who carries a torch for him throughout the picture, and Eva Gabor contributes a supporting role. Since lapsing into public domain in 1982, The Last Time I Saw Paris has become a cable-TV and video-store fixture, though print quality varies sharply. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Elizabeth Taylor - Helen Ellswirth
Van Johnson - Charles Wills
Walter Pidgeon - James Ellswirth
Donna Reed - Marie Ellswirth
Eva Gabor - Lorraine Quarl

Richard Brooks' The Last Time I Saw Paris comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are neither subtitles nor closed-captions on this release. Supplemental materials include interactive trivia. This very inexpensive DVD does a decent enough job presenting the film that it can be recommended, particularly to fans of the performers. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide