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Two Weeks in Another Town was created by the same team that worked on The Bad and the Beautiful: director (Vincente Minnelli), producer (John Houseman), screenwriter (Charles Schnee), composer
Two Weeks in Another Town: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton. After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
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- Drama
- Vincente Minnelli
- 1962-09
Feb 11, 2011 · The film is “a powerful and alarming documentary about America’s failing public school system,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in September. (Paramount, Blu-ray $39.99, DVD $29.99, PG)
- Dave Kehr
While living in Europe, Shaw wrote more bestselling books, notably Lucy Crown , Two Weeks in Another Town , Rich Man, Poor Man (for which he would later write a less successful sequel entitled Beggarman, Thief) and Evening in Byzantium (made into a 1978 TV movie).
Aug 9, 2019 · August 9, 2019. This drama, from 1962, directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, is one of the sharpest and most perceptive movies about the film industry.
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After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption. Former film star Jack Andrus is released from a sanitarium where he has lived for the previous three years, suffering from alcoholism, a traumatic automobile accident, and a ...
Two Weeks in Another Town ★★ 1962Douglas and Robinson are a couple of Hollywood hasbeens who set out to make a comeback picture but meet with adversity at every turn. Extremely sappy melodrama is based on Irwin Shaw's trashy novel and represents one of director Minnelli's poorer efforts. 107m/C VHS .
