Un profesor galardonado con el Premio Nobel sospecha que su esposa le es infiel cuando ella hace y descubre una estatua suya de 18 pies con partes íntimas reconocibles que no son las suyas.Un profesor galardonado con el Premio Nobel sospecha que su esposa le es infiel cuando ella hace y descubre una estatua suya de 18 pies con partes íntimas reconocibles que no son las suyas.Un profesor galardonado con el Premio Nobel sospecha que su esposa le es infiel cuando ella hace y descubre una estatua suya de 18 pies con partes íntimas reconocibles que no son las suyas.
Christopher Cruise
- Interviewer
- (as Christoper Cruize)
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David Niven's career hit rock bottom when he signed on to do The Statue. For a
man whose name on the screen stood for charm and sophistication what was Niven thinking when he signed for this?
Niven plays a Nobel Prize winner whose wife Virna Lisi is a sculptress and has done a larger than life statue of him. However she's given him some enhanced privates obviously inspired elsewhere and Niven spends the whole film looking for the inspiration.
David Niven has uplifted more films than any other actor by dint of his personality. But this one is just too heavy a lift. It's got all the element of a stag film without the prurient interest that would make one watch.
God only knows what Niven was thinking.
Niven plays a Nobel Prize winner whose wife Virna Lisi is a sculptress and has done a larger than life statue of him. However she's given him some enhanced privates obviously inspired elsewhere and Niven spends the whole film looking for the inspiration.
David Niven has uplifted more films than any other actor by dint of his personality. But this one is just too heavy a lift. It's got all the element of a stag film without the prurient interest that would make one watch.
God only knows what Niven was thinking.
Embarrassing below-the-belt comedy marks a career low point for the usually sophisticated David Niven. Film gets a 3/10 instead of 1 only for John Cleese's scenes (which are few and far between) as a reluctant psychiatrist, plus for brief nudity by Ann Bell.
When my friends ask me to name the absolutely worst movie I've ever seen, this is the one I always answer with. Considering Amateau's experience with comedy, and the quality of many of the cast members, this is a real disappointment. Maybe the saddest thing is watching David Niven trying to find the inspiration for a -- er -- feature on a statue his wife produced by skulking around lavatories, steam baths, and a bunch of other places. He looks vaguely embarrassed by it all, and really deserved a much better script. The trouble is, the production values of the film are too good for it to have much of a future on the midnight movie circuit. Plan 9, you're safe for now!
Prurient-minded comedy has acclaimed language professor David Niven furious over his sculptress wife's latest work of art: an 18-foot statue of a naked man with Niven's face but not his phallus (seems size is the sticking point). Since the statue has been commissioned by the US State Department for $50,000, it will be exhibited in public in London's Grosvenor Square; Niven fights to have the unveiling suppressed (on what basis--false advertising?). Alec Coppel's play "Chip, Chip, Chip" has become a shouting match on the screen. Niven argues with wife Virna Lisi, he shouts at US Ambassador to England Robert Vaughn, he's testy with advertising friend John Cleese, all the while dropping double entendres like bombs. Second-half of plot has Niven hoping to find the model who posed for the statue's torso, following his wife's male acquaintances into steam rooms and up mountain tops to get a look at their privates. It's supposed to be good dirty fun (with lots of bare breasts and bums), but nobody involved looks like they're having a high time. *1/2 from ****
I saw this movie when it first came to theatres and forgot about it until just recently. I've looked for the DVD and found it on Ebay for almost $70 and on another site for $30. Any fans out there that can recommend a company that sells it for around $15 or $20? Don't want to be cheap, but I was young, young when I saw it and only remember laughing a lot.
Just for the record, David Niven is brilliant. I can't think of any role he didn't nail and I think he was probably a very nice fellow in his personal life...even tho...of course, that is completely none of my business. This paragraph is just filling space for the minimum amount of verbiage so I can post my search for a more reasonably priced DVD. Hope it isn't cheating!
Just for the record, David Niven is brilliant. I can't think of any role he didn't nail and I think he was probably a very nice fellow in his personal life...even tho...of course, that is completely none of my business. This paragraph is just filling space for the minimum amount of verbiage so I can post my search for a more reasonably priced DVD. Hope it isn't cheating!
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- TriviaVirna Lisi had to be absent from the set until she recovered from a case of measles.
- ErroresWhen the fig leaf falls off the statue at 52:30, nothing is hidden behind it; it has already been sawed off.
- Citas
Alex Bolt: [In bed with his wife after a long time apart] I've been waiting to do this for a long time.
Rhonda Bolt: Then do it for a long time.
- ConexionesFeatured in Tienes que ver esta peli: El placer de las damas (2022)
- Bandas sonorasSKIN Sequence
Lyrics by Audrey Nohra
Music by Luis Bacalov
Performed by Tony & The Graduates (uncredited)
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- Países de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- The Statue
- Locaciones de filmación
- Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Roma, Lacio, Italia(studio: Italian sequences filmed at Cinecitta S.p.A.)
- Productora
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- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 220,766
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 24 minutos
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.78 : 1
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