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The Moon is Blue

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The Moon is Blue (1953)

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Reviews Counted:7

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Rotten:5

Average Rating:4.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: An aging playboy meets his match when he falls for an attractive young woman who steadfastly refuses to relinquish her virginity. Of course, her withholding act makes the middle-aged lothario go... An aging playboy meets his match when he falls for an attractive young woman who steadfastly refuses to relinquish her virginity. Of course, her withholding act makes the middle-aged lothario go mad with desire, and he increases his seduction efforts ten-fold. Will she give in? [More]

Starring: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully

Starring: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully, Dawn Addams, Fortunio Bonanova, Gregory Ratoff, Hardy Kruger, Johanna Matz

Director: Otto Preminger

Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Composer: Herschel Burke Gilbert

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Despite the fuss at the time, there's little blue about this except the title.

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02/09/06
Tom Milne
Tom Milne
Time Out
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The nothing about which there was so much ado is a tame little moral comedy about a determined virgin, who refuses to be seduced by a playboy architect.

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05/24/03
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Aside from its candor, however, and its audacity with the words, The Moon Is Blue is not outstanding, either as a romance or as film.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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For all the movie's staginess and datedness, it's a more personal and ambiguous work than it initially appears to be.

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01/01/00
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

No one today is likely to mistake this smarmy little sex farce for a good film, but it is significant historically as one of the nails in the coffin of Hollywood's self-imposed Production Code.

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10/23/07
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A landmark of its time -- and a very dull one.

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Ken Hanke
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