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Strangers When We Meet [DVD]

Kirk Douglas (Actor), Kim Novak (Actor), Richard Quine (Director, Producer) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
IMDb7.1/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Contributor Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Richard Quine, Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Bryna-Quine Prods. See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 57 minutes
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STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET features an all-star cast including Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau. Douglas stars as Larry Coe, a gifted architect who, unhappily married, falls in love with his beautiful neighbor Maggie (Novak), whose marriage is also on the rocks. The two meet secretly while Larry is at work building a dream house for the eccentric writer and playboy Roger Altar (Kovacs). These clandestine trysts are known only to one other person'their mutualfriend Felix Anders (Matthau). But when Larry is offered a tremendous career opportunity in Hawaii,he is suddenly torn between his home, his career and his love for Maggie. And when Felix starts making passes at Larry's wife (Rush), the foundations of his entire life starts to crumble. Based on Evan Hunter's novel, STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET is a film in the tradition of classics such as Peyton Place and No Down Payment.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Richard Quine
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 57 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 22, 2005
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Japanese
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Richard Quine
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Columbia / Sony Pictures
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00070HK3I
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings

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K. Coscino
5.0 out of 5 stars Can I give it more than 5 stars???????????
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2004
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If you ever want to see a movie that typifies 1960's life in all of its irreplacable, splendid detail, see this one. Yes, the heat between Kim and Kirk is enough to melt the tape, but what a memory lane through the taupe-and-grey color schemes, the clothing and furniture, the cars, the restaurants, and that truly class-act LOUNGE (yes, not a dive BAR), "The Albatross", where they meet--only America could have created all of it during that limitless age after the war. Magical. It unfortunately breathed its last long ago.
At least I had the chance to live through it--my mother somehow balanced on incredibly high heels (and how did she ever squeeze her toes into them??)...wasp-waisted skirts, capri pants and that ever-present single strand of pearls (whatever happened to it??)... endless weekend and evening "at home" patio parties with my dad bar-b-que'ing for lots of company who came dressed UP and not DOWN...soft, dreamy music (which almost always seemed to feature the xylophone)...REAL drinks in REAL glasses with lots of clinking ice cubes and swizzle sticks...and when it was just the family at home, everyone gathering around the window units to escape the heat. Ah, I can still smell it, taste it. And that's what "Strangers" offers--not just the steamy forbidden love story, but all of the contemporary trappings that supported that kind of lifestyle.
It's enough to make you cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That, and the fact that the tape is SOOOOOOOOOOOO expensive to acquire. The only copy I have is one I made on VHS from TV years ago. Sound quality is not the best, and the color is certainly not what it was when it was filmed, but the musical score, scenery, everything about it brings me back to that tape again and again.
Lie, cheat, steal (maybe kill?) if you have to to get your hands on this one--you will watch it over, and over, and over again.
Now, if they'd only re-release this AND one other dynamite Novak movie that you just can't find--"Middle of the Night" with Frederick March--well, just be prepared for the best entertainment ever. People who think she can't act are crazy!!
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Marquita L. Byrd
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Kirk Douglas's Best Works
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2001
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This is a taunt story of a love affair in an early 60's suburb. Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovack and Walter Mathau, a stunning cast, play out the story of an architech, Douglas, who wants to soar. His wife wants him to be successful and go for the stable. He meets a housewife, Kim Novack, at the school bus pick-up station. She has an air of danger. Douglas is intrigued.
Douglas is designing a house for a novelist, Ernie Kovack. Douglas and Kim Novack met at the site. They then proceed to have a torrid love affair.
Where is Novack's husband? Apparently out to lunch. In these modern times I would say he was probably gay, but never admitted it. He did not want to talk to his wife about sex, was not interested in touching her or anything else. She was starving for affection, but stayed because he provided middle class trappings.
In this movie Douglas looks his best. He is beyond the almost doll like handsomeness of his youth. He has enough maturity to make his face interesting. At 13 I fell in love with Kirk Douglas looking at this movie.
At that age I did not know enough to get the name of the movie, so when I happened to see it on AMC in the fall of 2001 I decided to buy it.
Well written, cinematography excellent,black and white, directed well.
A must see for Douglas, Novak, Kovack, or Mathau fans.
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Little Tex
4.0 out of 5 stars A good love story
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024
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I first saw this movie many years ago. It is a love that should never have happened if it was real life. an adulterous love is never any good. Even so I felt sorry for the characters that have a love so strong. This ain't no adventure story - pure love all the way. Sentimental Just my speed. I love it.
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Medici
5.0 out of 5 stars Can watch it Again and Again
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2013
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I love this movie and always have. I was testing out an upscaling DVD player using this DVD which I hadn't viewed in a couple years and found myself really enjoying the scene I used for the test, which took place in Earnie Kovac's apartment where he criticizes then praises Kirk's design. Having owned it for 6 years and seen it on TV as a teenager sometime after it first came out, I've always loved this movie, particularly the new house and the clandestine meetings there between Kirk and Kim's characters and the sad last scene with Kim in her black pumps, the house finally completed, but needing to say goodbye. But until this week, I didn't know how reviewable it was. Another good test movie, highly reviewable, is To Catch A Thief. The longshot scenes of the French Riviera and the flower cart accident as well as the motor boat run are great test subjects. Turns out the upscaler didn't work any better than the newer DVD player.

As I was a child the age of the kids getting off the bus, I truly love all the scenes of houses, shopping centers, cars, rides and restaurants from that era. Something about early memories, especially if they're overwhelmingly good and complete, overpowers all else. Great nostalgia for people who love that time period, very great.
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Willow
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent movie
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2020
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Love the movie, the quality of the picture and sound, and the excellent service from the supplier.
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Tracey Childs
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 5, 2016
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loved it
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Samuel Barber
2.0 out of 5 stars Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2014
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You would have thought that with two good actors that this film would be good, but it doesn't even get off the ground. In some ways, Novak is past her best in this film, but Douglas can afford to make a dud film in the same year that he made 'Spartacus'.
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