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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   1,448 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Irving Wallace (novel)
Ernest Lehman (writer)
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Release Date:
25 December 1963 (USA) more
Tagline:
He ordered a martini...kissed a girl...and was plunged into a nightmare of danger (USA Theatrical) more
Plot:
As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Movie Alert! "The Prize" On TCM Tuesday December 8
 (From CinemaRetro. 6 December 2009, 8:09 AM, PST)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Paul Newman ... Andrew Craig
Elke Sommer ... Inger Lisa Andersson

Edward G. Robinson ... Dr. Max Stratman / Prof. Walter Stratman
Diane Baker ... Emily Stratman
Micheline Presle ... Dr. Denise Marceau
Gérard Oury ... Dr. Claude Marceau
Sergio Fantoni ... Dr. Carlo Farelli
Kevin McCarthy ... Dr. John Garrett
Leo G. Carroll ... Count Bertil Jacobsson
Sacha Pitoëff ... Daranyi, Dark Henchman (as Sacha Pitoeff)
Jacqueline Beer ... Monique Souvir, Dr. Claude's 'Secretary'

John Wengraf ... Hans Eckhart
Don Dubbins ... Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
Virginia Christine ... Mrs. Bergh, Chaperon
Rudolph Anders ... Mr. Rolfe Bergh - Chaperon
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Additional Details

Runtime:
134 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

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Trivia:
Bears many plot similarities, similar scenes, and actors in common with North by Northwest (1959) due to both being written by Ernest Lehman . more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Count Jacobsson is too much of a lower-class name for a Swedish count. more
Quotes:
Emily Stratman: Am I keeping you awake?
Andrew Craig: Just barely.
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Movie Connections:
References The 39 Steps (1935) more
Soundtrack:
Night Music more

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9 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
Lovely, 13 April 2006
8/10
Author: cbn97 from Madrid, Spain

Absolutely lovely movie. A lovely 60's Stockholm and its Grand Hotel, an adorable and extremely beautiful Elke Sommer, a very young and charismatic Paul Newman, the glamour of the Nobel prize and lots of what we now a days consider that romantic innocence from the older times.

The movie itself is not exactly a good one. First of all you can notice that every scene outside is shot with a film behind so that very probably, Mr.Newman never got to go to Stockholm at all, but was filmed in some studio in Hollywood. Then all these stereotypes that are making angry to Italians, Swedes and even Danes. Well, take a look at any Hollywood movie happening in Spain and you will find see that those old stereotypes are there for every nationality and are certainly annoying. We are bullfighters here theoretically.

The plot is very simplistic, the bad guys are really clumsy, some scenes are taken from other movies and as mentioned before by someone else, it is a photocopy of Hitchcock's Torn Curtain as well.

Still, as imperfect as it is, it is just lovely, and the little romance of Newman and Sommers, those innocent but very hot kisses dressing up so smart are worth the movie for those who feel romantic.

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