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Bluebeard

  • 19721972
  • RR
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
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Bluebeard (1972)
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  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Thriller
A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.
IMDb RATING
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1.4K
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  • Director
    • Edward Dmytryk
  • Writers
    • Ennio De Concini(story)
    • Edward Dmytryk(story)
    • Maria Pia Fusco(story)
  • Stars
    • Richard Burton
    • Raquel Welch
    • Virna Lisi
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  • Director
    • Edward Dmytryk
  • Writers
    • Ennio De Concini(story)
    • Edward Dmytryk(story)
    • Maria Pia Fusco(story)
  • Stars
    • Richard Burton
    • Raquel Welch
    • Virna Lisi
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    • 32User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
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    "Bluebeard" Raquel Welch, Richard Burton 1972 Gloria Film
    Ilya Salkind and Richard Burton at the wrap party for BLUEBEARD (1972)
    Ilya Salkind and Edward Dmytryk on the set of BLUEBEARD (1972)
    Richard Burton and Joey Heatherton in Bluebeard (1972)
    Richard Burton and Joey Heatherton in Bluebeard (1972)
    Sybil Danning and Nathalie Delon in Bluebeard (1972)
    Raquel Welch in Bluebeard (1972)
    Richard Burton in Bluebeard (1972)
    Sybil Danning and Nathalie Delon in Bluebeard (1972)
    Richard Burton and Karin Schubert in Bluebeard (1972)
    Richard Burton and Karin Schubert in Bluebeard (1972)
    Richard Burton and Virna Lisi in Bluebeard (1972)

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    Richard Burton
    Richard Burton
    • Kurt Von Sepper
    Raquel Welch
    Raquel Welch
    • The Nun
    Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi
    • The Singer
    Nathalie Delon
    Nathalie Delon
    • Erika
    Marilù Tolo
    Marilù Tolo
    • Brigitt
    Karin Schubert
    Karin Schubert
    • Greta
    Agostina Belli
    Agostina Belli
    • Caroline
    Sybil Danning
    Sybil Danning
    • The Prostitute
    Joey Heatherton
    Joey Heatherton
    • Anne
    Edward Meeks
    • Sergio
    Doka Bukova
    • Rosa
    Jean Lefebvre
    Jean Lefebvre
    • Greta's Father
    Erica Schramm
    • Greta's Mother
    Karl-Otto Alberty
    Karl-Otto Alberty
    • Von Sepper's Friend
    • (as Karl Otto Alberty)
    Kurt Großkurth
    Kurt Großkurth
    • Von Sepper's Friend
    • (as Kurt Grosskurth)
    Thomas Fischer
    • Von Sepper's Friend
    Peter Martin Urtel
    • Von Sepper's Friend
    • (as Martin Urtel)
    Mag-Avril
    • Marka
    • (as Mag Avril)
    • Director
      • Edward Dmytryk
    • Writers
      • Ennio De Concini(story) (screenplay)
      • Edward Dmytryk(story) (screenplay)
      • Maria Pia Fusco(story) (screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The speaking voices of almost all of the European actresses in this movie were dubbed by Annie Ross of the famous jazz vocalese group Lambert Hendricks & Ross.
    • Quotes

      Anne: Why did you kill them?

      Kurt Von Sepper: Why? Why else? They deserved to die!

    • Crazy credits
      End credits credit actors who played characters who died in the movie as "was" and characters still alive once the movie's over as "is".
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993)

    User reviews32

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    A movie to like more for what it could have been than for what it is.
    This film has a lot of neat ideas, some beautiful women, and Burton as world-weary Baron with a campy, phony, middle-European accent. The script is clever and the sets are lavish, with Bluebeard's estate evoking E. A. Poe's Prince Prospero's: a different color dominating each separate room.

    Only Dmytryk fails as a director. The material frankly begs for someone like a Roger Vadim or even Roger Corman. BLUEBEARD should have been more fun, more intelligent than the Vincent Price movies of the time (such as THEATRE OF BLOOD) or even those of Roger Vadim (such as PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW), and yet it isn't. The script demands macabre humor and erotica, and Dmytryk couldn't deliver either, even in his heyday (and this film was made at the end of his slow, sad artistic decline).

    However, I personally enjoy this movie more for what it could have been than what it is. Unlike Chaplin's MONSUIER VERDOUX, and other "Bluebeard" movies directed by various people (from Edgar G. Ulmer to Claude Chabral) this is one film not inspired by the true story of Landru. It much more hearkens back to the original Perrault fairytale, only done in the modern times with Burton's Bluebeard as a proto-Nazi. It's not a bad idea for a film, but someone more hip, with more energy, was needed to pull it off.
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    • Jul 10, 2000

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 1, 1972 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Italy
      • West Germany
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Blaubart
    • Filming locations
      • Budapest, Hungary
    • Production companies
      • Gloria Film
      • Barnabé Productions
      • Geiselgasteig Film
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 5 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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