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Palm Beach Story, The (1942) Rank 5 Reviews
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FilmJerk.com (Cassy Havens)
At-A-Glance Film Reviews
This fast-paced Preston Sturges farce involves itself with some pretty insightful issues: practicality versus nobility, a husband's blindness to his wife's virtues and a brother's blindness to his sister's, and differing perspectives on the institution ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews
DVD Talk (Matt Langdon)
If you have never seen The Palm Beach Story then do yourself a favor and watch it. In fact, just go buy it for under $10.00 on many web sites or stores. It's funny. You'll love it. ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at DVD Talk (Matt Langdon)
Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
Mary Astor gets the movies most memorable line when she states matter of factly that ‘Nothing is permanent in this world except Roosevelt, dear.' My one point of contention with Preston Sturges is his penchant for racist stereotyping. In nearly all his ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Preston Sturges makes screwball extreme in this crazy comedy about an architect (Joel McCrea) and his wife (Claudette Colbert). When McCrea can't sell any designs, Colbert leaves him for a millionaire, with the idea that she'll get him to fund Joel's ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
DVD Times
The Palm Beach Story, should be his most purely enjoyable picture. We get the usual rapid fire mixture of slapstick and sharp dialogue, here told with the manic energy of Hellzapoppin’, say, ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at DVD Times
Edinburgh U Film Society (Alan Smithee)
filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
culturevulture.net
Classic Film Guide
MediaScreen.com
The transfer of this perennial favorite is not what you might call outstanding. In fact it's something of a disappointment. The grayscale is remarkably weak and poorly contrasted. ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at MediaScreen.com
DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
"Way before there was "Mamet talk" there was "Sturges talk,"--and his humor is sharper pronged and more scathing." ...read the complete Palm Beach Story movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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