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Director:

Harold Prince

Writers:

Harry Kressing (novel)
Hugh Wheeler (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama more

Tagline:

Compared to them, the MacBeths were just plain folks and the Borgias were a nice Italian family.

Plot:

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune... more | add synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. more

User Comments:

A beautiful, black, wry, comic fairy tale. more (15 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Angela Lansbury ... Countess Herthe von Ornstein

Michael York ... Konrad Ludwig
Anthony Higgins ... Helmuth Von Ornstein (as Anthony Corlan)
Heidelinde Weis ... Anneliese Pleschke
Jane Carr ... Lotte Von Ornstein
Eva Maria Meineke ... Mrs. Pleschke
John Gill ... Mr. Pleschke
Wolfried Lier ... Klaus
Klaus Havenstein ... Rudolph
Walter Janssen ... Father Georg
Erik Jelde ... Bit Part
Despo Diamantidou (as Despo)
Enzi Fuchs ... Waitress
Erland Erlandsen ... Schoenfeld
Hans Pössenbacher ... Carl
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Black Flowers for the Bride (UK)
The Cook (UK) (working title)
The Rook
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Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Austria more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Renowned theater personality Harold Prince's debut as film director and one of only two theatrical films he has ever directed. more

Quotes:

Lotte Von Ornstein: There's nothing like a piece of pre-breakfast chocolate cake! more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Plaza Suite (1971) more


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12 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
A beautiful, black, wry, comic fairy tale., 29 March 2004
Author: gpadillo from Portland, Maine

Hal Prince's Something For Everyone is perhaps one of the most looked over American classics of the 70's. The blackest of comedies the title might, if taken literally, be misleading since it is, obviously NOT for everyone. Prince's theatrical touch can be felt and lends a strong hand in the telling of the tale and keeping tight reigns on what could easily have become an out-of-control experience (i.e., "Happy Birthday, Gemini"), a taut, thrillingly wry comedy – one of the best of its type. Combining the fantasy of fairy tale with the social repression and economic dire straits of a Post-II World II Bavaria the film provides a vastly entertaining (and darkly hilarious) look into subject matters verboten at the time of the tale including the Nazi issue, social pariahism, class distinction and sexual appetite.

The dichotomy between classes has never been more closely paralleled in film: on one hand there is the starving, eager and willing to do anything young Konrad (Michael York) and on the other the Countess von Ornstein – she of by gone nobility. Countess or now, she too is starving, clinging to a past which has not only faded, but threatens at any minute to disintegrate. Her prospects poor she does what she must. Lansbury's Countess is priceless and she plays it with an unlikely combination of superego and hopeless despair – and she is brilliant. A tour-de-force.

If released today – the film would be at the top of every best 10 list and be talked about salaciously at every Starbucks.

With nazis hiding in the woodwork, sexual weaponry, misplaced romantic feelings, murder, social climbing combining with delicious Bavarian countryside, castles, beer gardens, stunning mountain vistas and even Wagnerian opera, Prince gives us a fairy tale gone wrong. Wondrously, terribly and gloriously wrong.

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