Actor: Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1974
Studio: Paramount Studios
Length: 90
Released: 09/22/2020
Rating: G
Format: DVD
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Color, Commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
Comedy legend Bob Hope stars as a timid New York radio personality who suddenly finds himself way over his head in At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris Leachman). Despite warnings from his dowager aunt (Mildred Natwick) about Daisy's recklessness with men, Winterbourne finds himself drawn to her. When he encounters her again in Rome, he tries to convince her that her liberated behavior with an Italian admirer (Duilio Del Prete) may sully her reputation in aristocratic circles. But Winterbourne cannot reconcile his feelings for Daisy with the manners that he is used to following, nor can he fathom how she may feel about him beneath her veneer of willful coquetry. After society matron Mrs. Walker (Eileen Brennan) ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old-fashioned mores may have sealed her fate. With a screenplay by Frederic Raphael and location shooting in Rome and Switzerland, Bogdanovich carefully recreated the rich surroundings and stultifying the social strictures of James' story.
