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Rosebud

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United Artists

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Peter O'Toole

Richard Attenborough

Cliff Gorman

Claude Dauphin

John V. Lindsay

Peter Lawford

Raf Vallone

Adrienne Corri

Amidou

Yosef Shiloach

Brigitte Ariel

Isabelle Huppert

Lalla Ward

Kim Cattrall

Debra Berger

Françoise Brion

Klaus Löwitsch

Erik Lee Preminger

Hans Verner

Georges Beller

Julian Pettifer

Edward Behr

Mark Burns

Maria Machado

Ori Levy

Paul Bonifas

Sylvain Corthay

Patrick Floersheim

Theodore Gershuny

Gib Grossac

Elisabeth Kaza

Jack Lenoir

Michael Seymour

Laurent Petitgirard

Don Sharpe

Paul Rabiger

Otto Preminger

Simon Holland

Paul Bonnecarrere

Terry Sharratt

Thom Noble

Robin Gregory

Joan Hemingway

Denys N. Coop

Peter Thornton

Margot Capelier

Bud Rosenthal

Graham Cottle

John Richardson

Keith Hamshere

James Devis

Angela Martelli

Cliff Richardson

Saul Bass

A major critical and commercial flop for United Artists in 1975, Otto Preminger's ROSEBUD is fascinating in a 'What the hell happened here?' kind-of way. Theodore Gershuny documented the troubled production in his 1980 book, "Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture", which is an enlightening read. In short: An old school director/dictator ran head-first into Murphy's Law, resulting in a film where everything and everyone feels off. Relegated to the CBS Late Movie for its American television premiere and (as of April 2020) still unreleased stateside on any physical home video format, this ones main value comes from the realization that you're watching a once major director (and his A-list cast) firmly bottom out.

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On paper, Otto Preminger has assembled quite a decent cast for this, but sadly neither he nor them can make much headway against some really dreadful writing. Peter O'Toole ("Martin") is drafted in to try to rescue five girls kidnapped from the yacht of arms-dealer "Fargeau" (Claude Dauphin) by a PLO cell under the leadership of zealous Brit "Sloat" (Richard Attenborough). The story lurches along with lots of clunky set-piece action scenarios and some terrorists about as menacing as yesterday's milk; the star is well off his game and the film looks as if nobody involved had ever made one before. Even the supporting cast - Raf Vallone, Peter Lawford and an almost unrecognisable Kim Catrall add nothing to the sloppily directed nonsense. At over two hours, it struggles from start to finish to engage - and I'm afraid really is not worth the effort of sitting watching it.

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Peter O'Toole

Richard Attenborough

Cliff Gorman

Claude Dauphin

John V. Lindsay

Peter Lawford

Raf Vallone

Adrienne Corri

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Yosef Shiloach

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