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y separately published work icon The Grand Duke and Mr Pimm single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 The Grand Duke and Mr Pimm
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Love Is A Ball All This and Money Too; The Grand Duke and Mr Pimm Frank Waldman , David Swift , Tom Waldman , ( dir. David Swift ) United States of America (USA) : Gold Medal Oxford Productions , 1963 6446213 1963 single work film/TV crime humour

A contemporary (largely negative) review in the New York Times offers the following synopsis:

'The movie begins familiarly, but potently, as Mr. Boyer, playing an international matchmaker, recruits some shrewd Riviera opportunists, headed by Mr. Ford, to spruce up a poor duke, Ricardo Montalban, as marital bait for Miss Lange, as the spoiled heiress.

'Mr. Ford is posted as a chauffeur in Miss Lange's villa. Guess what happens. And it takes a long, long time, with the incidents starting to meander at about midpoint. A seduction towards the end is laboriously coy.

'That sun-kissed scenery, though, should set anyone drooling, even as its wordliness magnifies the cardboard capering front and centre.'

Source:

'Screen: "Magnificent Sinner" Opens', New York Times, 25 April 1963, p.38.

Notes

  • Also published in braille.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Pan ,
      1962 .
      Extent: 221p.
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