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The World's Greatest Lover | 
 enlarge | Actors: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom Deluise
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 8075
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 89
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2233147
UPC: 024543231479
EAN: 0024543231479
ASIN: B000E6ESJE
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Release Date: April 4, 2006
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Product Description
A slapstick comedy written by Gene Wilder. It s about a movie buff who screen tests for a stand-in role for Rudolph Valentino while the real-life Valentino alienates his wife s affections.System Requirements:Running Time: 96 Min Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 024543231479 Manufacturer No: 2233147
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 Early Gene Wilder Comedy November 5, 2007
If you're a Wilder fan, you'll want to see this one that he wrote and starred in early in his career. Good to see but not as satisfying as later comedies.
 A Wilder Time at the Movies July 21, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I remember fondly seeing this as a kid on a double-bill with the moonshine comedy "Thunder and Lightning"(check it out). Revisiting it again after thirty years I have to say it still holds up. I remember it came out around Christmas of '77 about the same time Wilder's mentor Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" came out and the criticism of "The World's Greatest Lover" unfairly compared the two films. For sure the laughs are scattershot but I found more hits than misses. Wilder the director has imbued his film with great period detail. Wilder displays his inimatable neurotic comic brio here. The always solid Carol Kane is charming. Aside from Brooks stalwart Dom DeLuise Wilder employs some good veteran comic talent here(Carl Ballantine, Billy Sands, Ronnie Graham, Fritz Feld). Don't go into this with high expectations and you'll enjoy it. On a final trivial note, the actress portraying Wilder's reading partner, Candy Azzara, was cast as the original Gloria in the pilot for "All in the Family".
Passable Wilder(barely May 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A fair Gene Wilder, but not in the group of great G. Wilder flicks. ONce in a while a top movie star gets miscast in a role that borders on disaster. Wilder does his best but the movie story was beyond salvation. I.m not sure any other actor could have moved the rating above mediocre. For sure, this is a movie that should never have been made. If yo see it once, you won't go back for seconds ?
World's Greatest Lover.....just so-so May 18, 2007
I'm 22. Huge Gene Wilder fan. Very excited to get this as I love many of Wilder's films. This is ok--not great. To honest there are moments where the movie just felt plain weird. Perhaps the best way to describe is that the movie feels dated. The comedy and style of acting during certain moments--I was not accustomed to. There were many great laughs throughout the movie, which Wilder wrote himself. But it starts to trail off by the end of the movie.
If you like Gene Wilder...you should get this movie. But it ain't gonna be laughing on the floor kind of stuff.
 goofy but funny May 13, 2007
this is one of my all time favorite movies.It is simple but funny.Gene Wilder is hysterical as is Carol Kane.She is almost as funny as she is in "the Princess Bride" .The premise is simple but the cast is amazing.A very young Danny Devitto,Dom Deluise and other comedy geniues make appearances in this very light farce.
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