There must be some reason why there isn't a DVD version of this terrific film (other than VHS transfers). Does anybody know? Are the rights tied up somewhere in litigation? I can't believe Harold Prince hasn't tried to shepherd this through DVD production . . . Criterion, please!
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This is one of my all time favorites also. Unfortunately, it's controlled by Paramount which during the past two years releases hardly any "new" older films from their vast library. They seem to only release current films, re-package older films, and TV shows. This would be an ideal Criterion release which has been able to release a few Paramount classic titles lately. It's a shame that the individual who manages Paramount's release schedule doesn't like older fims, and for that reason, makes the rest of us who do just wish and wait.
shareI agree that this movie is Criterion-worthy. In fact, after I made this post I went to the Criterion site. There is a place where you can make suggestions. I suggested this one. May I suggest you do too, as well as anyone else who reads this post! Thanks everybody. Let's hope this gets the treatment it deserves. After all, a lot of the principals are still alive . . . how great would it be to hear their take on the production.
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thanks for adding the link, and for suggesting the movie to Criterion. Please, everybody, email Criterion and ask them to add this gem to the collection! I've heard they do take these suggestions seriously . . .
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Absolutely fabulous, no other expression applicble. I was very upset when AFI did the 100 most quotable movie lines, and my favorite line from this movie wasn't included: "There's nothing like a piece of pre-breakfast chocolate cake." The fact that this movie isn't more widely known is the only reason that line was omitted!!!
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god I've really got to see this again . . . it's been far too long . . . 20 years for me I think . . .
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I guess so . . . pan and scan would be just downright sad . . . I was tempted to buy one of the older DVDs off eBay, but I'm confused (by the various board discussions) about what's included and what's not--referring to the scenes between Konrad and the son. I remember a scene in the lake, and I think there was a bedroom scene between them--my memory's going. I would hate to miss either one--especially that lake scene. I remember how shocking (i.e. thrilling) it was at the time. It was WAY ahead of its time in that way . . .
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I can well imagine it being edited, after complaints received by Angela Lansbury fans who were expecting to see Jessica Fletcher or a teapot . . . [I saw her on B'way in Sweeney Todd, by the way--she stole theshow blind. FAB-U-LOUS.]. I think it was probably like what John Waters describes (in a couple of documentaries), the problem of "nice" suburban families, having seen Hairspray, decide to rent another John Waters movie, and they take home Pink Flamingos. Waters says "I know right where they stopped watching--when the dancing *beep* appears . . ."
I just looked it up and see that Something For Everyone was two years before Pink Flamingos and four years before Female Trouble. I think you're right that SFE was subversive, maybe as much as PF or FT because it was mainstream. I'm trying to think of another film that precedes it that showed a boy/boy relationship with such nonchalance and so nonjudgementally. Can't offhand think of one . . .
I said it before here, I think, but when Angela Lansbury appeared at the train scene in that white satin suit and hat there was a collective Audible Gasp from the audience. I'll never, ever forget it. It was mostly gay guys, of course, and it was like, WOW, Somebody Gets It! The moment is difficult to describe, but I remember it as one that began to define our culture . . . .
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I had no idea AL was so tall! lucky you to have seen behind the scenes . . . I wasn't as enthusiastic about Sweeney . . . I thought the stage was much too large for what was really kind of a minimalist production . . . it seemed like acres of black space around the barber/pie shop. There was a long, high catwalk across the back where the lovers met. Nevertheless AL was absolutely mesmerizing and your eyes really couldn't go anywhere else when she was performing--as you doubtless know having seen it five times times . . . !
I really need to see SFE again soon . . . I can't recall much of the dialog--that exchange you quote is something I don't remember . . . I'm thinking it's been more than 20 years since I've seen it . . . one of the few lines I remember was something to the effect
"They didn't know what an entail was. That places them." Perhaps you remember it more accurately. For some reason that stuck with me.
I agree with you about societal angle. I see it as a kind of modern Grimms' fairy tale . . . . which are always about sublimated desires of all kinds . . . .
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Can you imagine a DVD issue that was edited, though? What sort of brain-dead fools would do such a thing?
I first saw this movie when I was just a kid (around 9/10, I believe), in the late 70's. I was browsing the tv late at night and the initial credits called my attention, because it looked like a fairy tale (the part talking about the young price and pricess living in a castle). I ended up watching the whole film, and altough definitely not a child movie, I loved it. Mainly because it was the first movie I had ever seen which showed a same sex kiss/relationship (yeah, I'm gay). Therefore, this movie left a very deep impression on me.
I was never able to locate this movie for years, and I did not even knew its name until one day I decided to browse on Michael York's IMDB page and read the discription of all him movies until I discovered its name. After that I was always looking at Amazon, hoping for a dvd release. Until one year ago when I decided to import (I live in Brazil) a used vhs copy from Amazon. Luckily it was a good copy, and I imediately coverted it to dvd (as far as I was told, you can legally convert a movie from vhs to dvd, as long as you own the original copy and do not distribute it). The only problem for me it that the sound is not very good and it does not have closed captions; so I lost some of the dialogs, since I am not a native speaker of English.
So, my point is, since it seems that this movie will not be released on dvd, I suggest for the ones who own it on vhs to convert it to dvd, so you will able to better preserve it. (the fact that it would be illegal, was the only thing preventing me from uploading this movie on youtube; there are some many old movies that probably will NEVER be realead again and will be lost for the next generations. It is really a shame).
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Thanks, Worov, for your kind words. I totally agree that this is a great and delicious movie. Hope we had more like this nowadays. It is also good to see that some many people also like this movie. I thought I was the only person in the world to know it ;-)
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Very nice thoghts about the movie. I haven't even considered that approach, but it makes sence. Such innocence from some parties. Well, I confess I am very nostaugic about older times, although they were far from being perfect.
Sorry, but I really did not catch you when you said "says the whole feeling about gay people is different down there". Does he mean we have less or more problems in South American?
Best regards. It has been really nice "talking" to you.
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I would say he is VERY optmistic. We still have a high level of intolerance (which many times can go to some violent actions), and even the bigger cities are not so open-minded as NY, London or Berlin, for exemple. But we are improving, following a global sentence. After all, who would imagine that a highly conservative and religious contry (catholic) like Spain would ever approve same sex mariage.
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Yeah, you are right! In fact, things are not only improving, but doing it very fast. It SO much easier to live a gay life today, that I confess I fell jealous (just look, for ex., of the number of gay characters at tv shows nowadays). I wish I was younger so I could have not lived my younger days in fear of everybody knowing, and being sick of having to pretend to be what I am not for so many times (ok, maybe it is just because I was a big coward). But, well, i am not so old yet (37), so I glad thing are changing. When I look back in time I realised that fear made lose some of the best parts of my life.
shareLike everyone else here I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! When people say some Bette Midler movie is a "black comedy" I have to chuckle. THIS is a black comedy. I love the scene where Heinrick has just come back from his wedding and is very upset, Konrad is consoling him when Annalisa walks in. Great stuff! I saw this as a double bill in the mid 70s with Saturday Night at the Baths. I was just able to buy Saturday Night... on DVD. I haven't reviewed it yet but I'm so excited. After I saw that double bill I went home and shaved off my beard. I was married to a woman at the time - a lot has happened since, but at the time I was walking on air after seeing them. I have reviewed SFE many, many times since and it never disappoints. Angela Lansbury is fantastic. Michael York is yummy with a capital Y, everyone is great in this film. Another movie I really wish was available on DVD is Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Robert Altman being such a famous director I'm really surprised it's not available. Anyway, it reaffirms by belief in humanity to read so many other fans of this movie.
shareHi guys,
good news !!! There is a dvd release in Spain. It's on the "cheap" Eurocine label, region2, aspect ratio 4:3. But it is an official dvd and has the English soundtrack. If we all buy this, Paramount may realise they should give it the works.
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official distributor's page :
http://www.eurocinefilms.com/detall.asp?codi=322&seccion=3
The biggest Spanish webshop that sells abroad :
http://www.dvdgo.com/product~catgid~0~list~0~prodid~125817~typeproduct~1~dvd~Something+for+Everyone.htm
You might find sellers also at the Spanish branch of Ebay :
http://www.ebay.es/
FWIW you can vote at the Turner Classic Movies webpage for this and many other films that are not available yet on DVD to be released.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=90754
On the right hand side of the page there is a button that says "Vote".
http://saucybetty.blogspot.com
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You realise that this was not a gay movie or about gay issues.
I was a about a ruthless social climber who would do what ever it took to achieve his ends in the same vein as Hitler did. Nothing was immoral if it furthered his cause of owning that castle. Its a shame we never got to see him shine the daughters shoes. She reminds me of the charactor Rip Van Winkle from the anime Hellsing Ultimate 4
I saw this film at the drive in in Ky with my mom back in 1971.
The only other films I ever saw with my mom who died in 1972 was the Devils 8,
Tell me you love me junie moon and The Sound of Music
This is a great movie, I concur. For the longest time, it, and The Silent Partner (1979), were my touchstones for the quality of a Movie Guide (Like Ebert's or Maltin's) if those two were included in the books. Many fell short.
I tend to concur with the above, that the gay element of the story was about the sociopathic amorality of York's character -- he would do anything to promote himself, and, by using the family, he did so. I believe he would have eventually offed each of them, if given time, after he'd made himself "king" of the castle, but it turns out that the family was just as ruthless as he was... all the time, he thought he was taking advantage of them but it was really the other way around.
Not that he doesn't get the position, etc., that he sought, hence "Something For Everyone". It has a perverse charm that makes it last the test of time.
I first saw it in my local college cinema in the very early 80s, which ran obscure movies for students several nights a week. I saw a number of movies that would otherwise have been impossible to see in those pre-videostore days.
I LOVE 'The Silent Partner'. Another GREAT film by the late Daryl Duke, was ''Payday'.
I'd love to find this film.
Carpe Noctem!
Kino Lorber has announced a release of this film on Blu-ray in December 2016.
shareTHANK YOU FOR THE HEADS UP!
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Up for pre-order now at Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/Something-Everyone-Blu-ray-Angela-Lansbury/dp/B01LZAP78J/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1476371163&sr=1-1&keywords=something+for+everyone
YEA! and thanks! And here's hoping Netflix or Amazon or some outfit streams it....
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