The Great Impostor Robert Mulligan Digital Life VHS

The Great Impostor
starring: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Gary Merrill
directed by: Robert Mulligan

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300185333
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300185338
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: June 20, 1995
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 11262
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1961

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- The Original "Catch me if you Can"
If you liked "Catched me if you can", then you would enjoy watching the original with Tony Curtis. Tony Curtis does a real good job of pretending to be other people.

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- The Great Imposter: When Being Yourself Is Not Enough
Nearly everyone has at one time or another wished to be other than who they are. The reaching out to be more than one is has often formed the staple of Hollywood. The result is humorous more often than not. In THE GREAT IMPOSTER, director Robert Mulligan provides a darkly comical aspect of a subject that, in this film at least, is only a hairsbreath away from tragedy. Tony Curtis plays Ferdinand Waldo Demarra, a young man who from early childhood cannot make his own mark on the world and determines to make a series of marks by stealing the identities of more qualified others. In a series of vignettes whose only link is to show that Demarra's quest for recognition by using the names of others whom he deems as more worthy than himself is each time an exercise in futility. It does not matter whether he impersonates a physician, a warden, or even a police officer. In each case, he performs flawlessly to such an ... Read More

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- A neglected minor gem!
You will rarely see this film mentioned in books on cinema history, or on lists of "top video faves", but it is a highly enjoyable minor gem which provides an excellent role for the young Tony Curtis. It is the (mostly) true story of Ferdinand Demara Jr., and his amazing career of successfully posing as a U.S. Army officer, a Navy dental surgeon, a prison warden, and several other things which he was not. Solid support is provided by several fine character actors (Edmund O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Larry Gates, Raymond Massey, Karl Malden). Slightly overlong, but well worth seeing. The final shot is very funny.

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- Stranger than life fiction turns out to be true!
Adapted from the novel by Robert Crichton, Tony Curtis portrays the depression era character, Fred Demara. Shortly after graduating from high school Demara flees the poverty stricken streets of Lawrence, Massachusetts and embarks on a thirty five year journey that would not be believable but for the fact that it's true. At the time this film was shot (1960), Curtis was the number one box office attraction in the country. A must see for the historical as well as the entertainment value.

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