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The World of Henry Orient 1964 123movies

The World of Henry Orient 1964 123movies

Step into the world of Henry Orient...and meet two junior-size misses and one king-size nut!Mar. 19, 1964106 Min.
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Watch: The World of Henry Orient 1964 123movies, Full Movie Online – Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) is a madly egocentric and overly amorous avant-garde concert pianist who is hilariously pursued all around New York City by two fourteen-year-old fans. The girls, Valarie “Val” Campbell Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Marian “Gil” Gilbert (Merrie Spaeth) chase a harassed Henry all over the city, thwarting his afternoon liaisons with a married woman and leaving utter chaos behind them – until Val’s sexually promiscuous mother, Isabel (Dame Angela Lansbury), appears on the scene to put a stop to the girls’ shenanigans..
Plot: A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
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6.6/10 Votes: 3,588
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N/A Votes: 33 Popularity: 4.822 | TMDB

Reviews:

This was also the Sixties
The sixties became The Sixties around the time of this film, 1964. There was a time, believe it or not, when kids played grown-up, instead of the other way around, as is the case today. Two cute girls are venturing from childhood to youth, in a benign Manhattan. They have a crush on a pianist-Lothario who happens to be Peter Sellers. You can imagine the complications – and the hilarity.

What makes this film so appealing is the way it portrays adolescent awakening as a completely unsordid and sweet experience. Yes, there is pathos, when the two discover how adults have turned their world into Henry Orient’s world.

Although the cast is sterling all around, Tom Bosley is a standout as father to one of the girls, who helps put things to rights.

If the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam are cultural watersheds, then this film is a refreshing antidote; it gives the lie to the glib put-downs of the era by the current generation.

Review By: jacksflicks Rating: 9 Date: 1998-12-31
An Absolute Gem
“You know, I don’t know whether I ought to or not, but I feel awfully happy… in a sort of sad way” says Valerie Boyd to conclude the climatic scene of this nurturing film.

George Roy Hill gets my vote for most underrated director. I don’t know if it was intentional but Hill seems to have specialized in directing extremely difficult films (“Slaughterhouse Five”, “The World According to Garp”, “The Sting”, and “Slap Shot”) and did them all quite well. “The World of Henry Orient” (1964) certainly falls into this difficult category as his two inexperienced young stars were featured in almost every scene and alternated between location shooting and studio sound stage work.

This will probably be regarded as Hill’s best film, not because it is technically perfect but because few (if any) films have successfully interpreted an ambitious screenplay in such a subtle and lyrical manner.

It is a story seen from the point-of-view of two 14-year old girls who the viewer first meets at the moment they first meet each other. Gil (Merrie Spaeth) and Val (Elizabeth Walker) are prep school students in New York City who immediately connect despite coming from very different backgrounds and being in different developmental stages. What distinguishes this from most film friendships is that both are loners who are comfortable enough with each other to maintain their own individuality, even dressing differently.

Hill managed to put the two young actresses at ease in front of the camera and to capture their natural energy, this is what gives their characters an unexpected authenticity. Just prior to seeing the film I had spent a couple days at a girls’ fastpitch softball tournament and was struck by the true-to-life qualities of these two girls.

They keep accidentally bumping into the title character, a vain concert pianist (Peter Sellers), and become his youngest fans. Dressed in Chinese hats (insert “Orient” here), the two girls stake out his apartment. He is engaged in a long-term and frustratingly unsuccessful attempt to seduce an ultra-paranoid married woman, nervous Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss). Henry and Stella fuel each other’s paranoia and finally convince themselves that Stella’s husband is employing the girls as detectives.

The film’s funniest scene occurs when Gil and Val convince Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) that their mother is Jayne Mansfield.

“The World of Henry Orient” is the only film I know of that takes the world of 13 and 14 year- old girls seriously. “Ghost World” (which placed a “Henry Orient” poster on the wall of Enid’s bedroom), New Waterford Girl, and “Times Square” could be considered sequels-stories, what Gil and Val would become a couple years into the future when they were a couple years older and a little worn down by the additional experience with the world. It’s also the first credible portrayal of the effects of divorce and parental neglect on children.

“The World of Henry Orient” is more a coming of age story than a comedy although it does have some comic moments. Most of these involve the title character played by Peter Sellers. But don’t expect the over-the-top performances of the older Sellers, his Henry Orient is more along the eccentrically restrained lines of his Fred Kite-trade union leader character in “I’m All Right Jack”. Paula Prentiss is also quite funny in a restrained portrayal.

Ultimately it is Hill’s subtlety and nuance that are most memorable. Watch the expressions change on Gil’s face as Val takes her on a fantasy trip involving the “wished for” return of her father in time for Christmas. Val quickly moves on to another subject as Gil quietly finishes processing the dream.

Tom Bosley is especially good as Frank Boyd, Val’s father. He does not appear until midway into the film. You learn that he has long doubted that he is actually Val’s biological father and has kept the father- daughter relationship distanced, with both parents constantly traveling and Val left at school. With minimal dialogue Bosley shows Frank’s slow realization that he loves his daughter more than anything in the world, despite his earlier doubts.

This leads to one of cinema’s most amazing climatic scenes, coming unexpectedly at least 10 minutes before the actual ending. Val returns home after accidentally discovering that her mother (Angela Lansbury) and Henry are having an affair. Although she does not reveal this to her father, watch how Hill (mostly wordlessly) illustrates the climatic revelations and the process of father and daughter finally finding each other. This visual narrative is why film is so powerful in the hands of a skilled and visionary director like Hill.

This is a nice 16×9 print that could greatly benefit from captioning as the audio track is quite poor.

Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.

Review By: aimless-46 Rating: 10 Date: 2006-07-11

Other Information:

Original Title The World of Henry Orient
Release Date 1964-03-19
Release Year 1964

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director George Roy Hill
Writer Nora Johnson, Nunnally Johnson
Actors Peter Sellers, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The World of Henry Orient 1964 123movies
The World of Henry Orient 1964 123movies
Original title The World of Henry Orient
TMDb Rating 5.667 33 votes

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