All About Eve

Pros: Dialog, actors
Cons: Pretty good at what it does

All About Eve (1950) "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night." Margo Channing (Bette Davis) Joseph L. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay and directed All About Eve from the short story by Mary Orr. It is noted as one of ...

Pros: story, dialogue, acting--everything
Cons: none

All About Eve is a triumph of acting, directing, writing and casting. Director Joseph Mankiewicz used his artistry to create a superior product from the stellar cast. Even the smaller roles in this film are excellent.

This film...

Pros: Excellent Cast, Direction and Screenplay
Cons: Lacks a little pace

What’s the movie that’s received the greatest number of Oscar nominations? It’s actually a tie. Both All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997) received 14. All About Eve won 6 Oscars including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay awards ...

Pros: Bette Davis and the sharper bits of Mankiewicz' screenplay
Cons: Baxter, length

"All About Eve" opens with an awards ceremony. The voice-over narrator, the first of many who will ...

Pros: Excellent Bette Davis vehicle and it launched Marilyn Monroe's career. A classic.
Cons: None

"Margo Channing is a star of the theater. She made her stage debut at the age of four in "Midsummer Night's Dream," playing a fairy. She entered, quite unexpectedly, stark naked. She has been a star ever since." This line was delivered as a voiceover by...

Pros: Witty dialogue and a sensational cast...
Cons: ...probably a bit too long.

Today my area of the world hit 46C (122F). At that temperature, the roads start to go squishy and the train lines warp. Old people start dying. The only way to escape it is to flee to cooler climes. Which I did, fleeing into my inner sanctum ...

Pros: Bette Davis, George Sanders, witty dialogue, characters
Cons: perhaps overlong, too cynical for some

In 1950, two fairly similar movies were in competition during the Academy Awards. One was Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a nasty look at Hollywood through the eyes of a hack screenwriter, and of a former silent screen great who now lives in her...

Pros: Moments of performance, Moments of character, Some great lines, DVD bonus features
Cons: Melodramatic moments, Story drags at times

I’m not into tabloids. I do not, for example, pay attention to the gossip magazines and the lives of celebrities rarely interest me. Instead, I tend to treat celebrities the way I treat anyone else I meet, though usually when I meet actors from ...

Pros: script, cast, story, direction
Cons: none worth mentioning

"All About Eve" is a black comedy that cynically skewers the theater, with an outstanding and wicked script. It was nominated for an amazing fourteen Oscars, winning six including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Joseph L....

Pros: A scathing satire.
Cons: Off-kilter.

I'd like to tell you that I checked this film out because it was nominated for the most Academy Awards in history (14 in 1950). I'd like to tell you that I checked out this film because it won Best Picture. I'd like to tell you that I checked out this...

Pros: Can be enjoyed on many levels
Cons: Maybe one short line of dialogue in over 2 hours

Not wanting to be repetitious, but this is one of the great films of all time: writing, acting, dialogue, direction, psychology, intelligence, you name it. When we showed this film to my husband's initially squirming teenage daughters, they were truly...

Pros: The all star cast and plot
Cons: it's a little dated.

Ok, it's a classic story, young assistant steals the thunder from her mentor and takes over the throne. In this case it's the New York theatre scene, but what makes this timeless movie so fascinating is that behind the scenes it was truly film...

Pros: Script, story, performances,direction
Cons: some sketchiness in the time sequence and character relationships

While 1950's "Sunset Boulevard" attempts to skewer the Hollywood lifestyle, the year's classic "All About Eve" attempts to skewer the theatre world. It's a war of the divas as the old and new duke it out for top billing, both on, and...

Pros: Brilliant dialogue, fab acting
Cons: It's all downhill from here...

The standard by which all other snappy-patter movies must be judged, this enduring comedy is witty, incisive and drop-dead elegant.

Bette Davis dazzles as aging Broadway diva Margo Channing (a role that fits her like a glove), Miss Marilyn...

Pros: excellent story
Cons: old black and white movie

I had to watch this movie for a film studies class I decided to take. Hollywood movies these days are made so that they appeal to an American audience. After all, they are the ones paying for the tickets aren't they? Thus, often movies that critics deem...