| 词条 | The Wheeler Dealers |
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| name = The Wheeler Dealers | image = The Wheeler Dealers FilmPoster.jpeg | image_size = 225px | caption = Theatrical release poster | writer = George Goodman Ira Wallach | starring = James Garner Lee Remick | director = Arthur Hiller | producer = Martin Ransohoff | music = Frank De Vol | cinematography = Charles Lang | editing = Tom McAdoo | distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | released = {{film date|1963|11|14}} | runtime = 107 minutes | country = United States | language = English | awards = | budget = | gross = $3,200,000 (US/ Canada)[1] }} The Wheeler Dealers (also known as Separate Beds in the UK) is a 1963 romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, and Patricia Crowley. It was produced by Martin Ransohoff and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.[2] The film's screenplay was written by George Goodman and Ira Wallach, based on Goodman's 1959 novel of the same name. Garner was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[3] PlotMolly Thatcher (Lee Remick) is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by male chauvinist Bullard Bear (Jim Backus). When the company does poorly, he has to fire somebody. As the only female broker, Molly is the obvious choice since dismissing a male broker would make people think the company is in trouble. He assigns her the seemingly impossible task of unloading shares of an obscure company called Universal Widgets, figuring that she will fail, and he will have an excuse to fire her. Molly meets Henry Tyroon (James Garner), an aggressive wheeler dealer who dresses, talks, and acts like a stereotypical Texas millionaire. He is interested in her, not Universal Widgets, but decides to help out in order to get closer to her. As they spend time together, Molly watches Henry make complicated business deals, often in partnership with his Texan cronies, Jay Ray (Chill Wills), Ray Jay (Phil Harris), and J.R. (Charles Watts). One example is dealing in modern art, with the aid of Stanislas (Louis Nye), a cynical avant-garde painter. Molly and Henry have trouble figuring out Universal Widgets' reason for existence; its only factory burned down around the time of the Spanish–American War. It manufactures nothing and provides no services. (Widgets had something to do with horse-drawn carriages.) It is just a corporation on paper whose sole asset is a huge block of shares in AT&T, bought long, long ago when the stock was ridiculously cheap. Now it pays out hefty, regular dividends to its complacent shareholders. When Henry makes attempts to take control of Universal Widgets by what appears to be questionable methods, over-enthusiastic government regulator Hector Vanson (John Astin) takes him to court. Further complications arise when Jay Ray, Ray Jay, and J.R. get Molly fired so that she will spend more time with Henry. She thinks Henry is responsible. She also discovers that he is actually an Easterner and a Yale University graduate; masquerading as a Texan just helps him with his wheeling and dealing. The judge dismisses the Federal Securities Commission case when it is determined that all the Universal Widgets shares are in the hands of just a few people, not the general public. Henry and the Texan trio's shares are sold back to the original owners, then and there, for a sizable profit. The trio also confesses that they were the ones who had Molly fired. After hearing this, she quickly makes up with Henry. Cast
ReceptionBosley Crowther of The New York Times was unimpressed, writing "somehow the script of George J. W. Goodman and Ira Wallach doesn't jell and isn't droll, and Arthur Hiller's direction is too slow for romantic comedy. What might be brightly satiric simply isn't because it lacks wit. Too much double entry and too little double entendre".[4] He did, however, like Garner ("spry and briskly charming") and Remick ("cute").[4]Glenn Erickson characterized the film as an "entertaining trifle that, if I read it right, outsmarts itself. Nobody on either side of the camera seems to know that the joke is really on them, and us, and our way of life".[5] He thought both stars gave "outstanding performances" and rated the film "Good +".[5]Home mediaThe Wheeler Dealers was released on June 27, 2011 by Warner Home Video as a widescreen Region 1 DVD via its Warner Archive DVD-on-demand service. The film's Blu-ray release came on April 25, 2017.[6]See also
References1. ^"Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross. 2. ^Variety film review; September 25, 1963, page 6. 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.goldenglobes.com/person/james-garner?page=1 |title=James Garner |publisher=Golden Globe Awards}} 4. ^1 {{cite news |title=The Wheeler Dealers (1963) |author=Bosley Crowther |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 15, 1963 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9503E7DA1730E433A25756C1A9679D946291D6CF}} 5. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s3572whee.html |title=The Wheeler Dealers |publisher=DVD Savant |accessdate=October 22, 2012}} 6. ^{{Citation|title=The Wheeler Dealers Blu-ray|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Wheeler-Dealers-Blu-ray/176089/|accessdate=2017-09-08}} External links
13 : 1963 films|1960s romantic comedy films|American business films|American films|American romantic comedy films|English-language films|Films scored by Frank De Vol|Films based on American novels|Films directed by Arthur Hiller|Films set in New York City|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films|Wall Street films|1960s business films |
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