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      A Breath of Scandal

      Released Dec 16, 1960 1h 38m Romance Comedy List
      Reviews 30% 250+ Ratings Audience Score A Pittsburgh mining engineer (John Gavin) keeps an Austrian princess (Sophia Loren) from the Prussian prince her father (Maurice Chevalier) favors. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 01 Buy Now

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      Steve D Not one thing works in the entire film. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/25/23 Full Review Audience Member ***Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.*** Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Sophia Loren delights in this period romantic comedy of a banished princess who after scandalous adventures gets accepted back to court to marry a prince after falling for American millionaire John Gavin. Gavin is so handsome and awkward and wooden in this film that he reminded me of Mitt Romney. Loren is delicious at there is ample support from Maurice Chevalier and Isable Jeans as her parents. Angela Lansbury is also great in another of her stock evil bitch roles. Exteriors are beautifully photographed in Vienna. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm giving this high marks despite the sometimes cliché script because of so many things. For starters it is my favourite Sophia Loren film and it is for those who love fun, innocent trifles about Americans going to European countries with monarchies and doing zany things. The costumes, sets, lighting and postcard beautiful photography are largely down to the legendary George Hoyningen-Huene and were executed by Ella Bei of the Knize fashion house. These costumes are unrivalled in detail and beauty and seeing some of them on the flawless and quintessential hourglass figure of Sophia Loren is dazzling. Angela Lansbury and Isabel Jeans are magnificent and of course Chevalier. Once again it is my most favourite Sophia film and in my top ten so it has a very special place in my heart. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Really Fun, full of Mischief ala Sophia Loren Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member One of those movies that under different titles are aired in the afternoons by lazy networks, because of which I never remember I've seen this movie 7 times already until the opening credits are over. Sophia Loren is charming enough, John Gavin is cute enough, and I loves me some Angela Lansbury as an aristocratic bitch with tits (Angela Lansbury is always awesome when her girls are featured prominently, if you don't believe me, go see Gaslight, there's a reason she got an Oscar for that little dà (C)but!). So on to the bad stuff: the plot is so thin that it shrinks away to nothing about halfway through, and no amount of Loren flirtation or Gavin smoulder can fix that and Lansbury isn't in it enough. Considering the first movie version made of the play was such an enormous flop, maybe they should have learned their lesson. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Robert Vas Sight & Sound The decline of a subject like Ferenc Molnar's Olympia, however, a lively and theatrically effective satire on the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, into the characterless insignificance of A Breath of Scandal, is nothing short of mysterious. Feb 10, 2020 Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine One of Ferenc Molnar's romantic comedies from an earlier generation has been turned into a rather soggy fairytale... Nov 5, 2019 Full Review Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com About as substantial as a puffy French pastry. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 7, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A Pittsburgh mining engineer (John Gavin) keeps an Austrian princess (Sophia Loren) from the Prussian prince her father (Maurice Chevalier) favors.
      Director
      Michael Curtiz
      Screenwriter
      Karl Schneider
      Distributor
      Paramount Pictures
      Production Co
      Titanus, Paramount Pictures
      Genre
      Romance, Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 16, 1960, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 12, 2010
      Runtime
      1h 38m
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