sksolomonb
I remember a film comedy in which Fernando Lamas portrayed a compulsive gambler who missed his own wedding because he could not stay away from a floating crap game, once he learned about it. I do not believe "The Girl Who Had Everything" included a plot line like this, but I could not find anything else remotely similar that starred the late Mr. Lamas. One reviewer mentioned that he/she thought the version he/she had seen was 30 minutes shorter, and this makes me wonder if "The Girl Who Had Everything" had had the comic parts edited out of it???
David (Handlinghandel)
And it isn't.William Powell is a tough criminal lawyer. He may not have a lot of scruples but he has money. And he wants the best for his daughter, played by the ravishing young Elizabeth Taylor. Truly, she has hardly ever looked more beautiful than she does here.She is, as the title suggests, spoiled. And she decides she wants Daddy's recent client, gangster Fernando Lamas. She already has Gig Young but Lamas is more dashing, if a real cad.Everyone is good. It has a solid plot. The direction moves things along briskly. The score by Andre' Previn is exceptional.If you don't have access to "A Place In the Sun," probably Taylor's most famous movie from this period,, catch this one. You will be knocked out by her beauty. And her acting is good, too.
Sheila_Beers
Obviously, this is one movie people either love or hate -- there is no in-between. I loved the movie because Elizabeth Taylor's character must choose between (1) her attachment to her boyfriend and (2) the moral obligation to do the right thing. In other roles Taylor portrayed young women who defied their fathers in regard to relatively minor issues; in this role, the character defies her father to follow a potentially deadly path.Fernando Lamas (the late father of Lorenzo Lamas) does an excellent portrayal of the charming Latin lover; however, the character has a dark side involved with the criminal element.In the end, the female lead (portrayed by Taylor) must make a choice between (1) the good she sees in her boyfriend and (2) her obligation to justice.
Greg Couture
Turner Classic Movies ended an all-day marathon of Elizabeth Taylor movies today with this turkey. I stayed up way past my beddie-bye time in stupefied horror as I watched it. What were they thinking? The waste of usually first-class talent was astounding in virtually every department. Especially worthy of note was Andre Previn's absurdly over-the-top score, not bad as music but entirely inappropriate when laid on with a trowel over the sad and hackneyed proceedings. The always pedestrian director Richard Thorpe, as usual, failed to redeem the enterprise with even a scintilla of visual imagination.A Mr. Art Cohn, who died about five years later in the private plane crash that killed Mike Todd, then Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, is credited with the script. Dare I say it, was that divine retribution for churning out the cliches that the actors whom M-G-M shoved into this mess were forced to speak?Its only virtue is its mercifully short running time of slightly over one hour. This was probably Elizabeth's nadir during her servitude at Metro.
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