Un million clefs en main
- 1948
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- 1h 34min
Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA man and his wife decide that they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.A man and his wife decide that they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.A man and his wife decide that they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 4 victoires et 2 nominations au total
- John Retch
- (as Jason Robards)
- Mr. Murphy
- (non crédité)
- Workman
- (non crédité)
- Charlie - Painter
- (non crédité)
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The script has a perfect ear, the director's timing is impeccable, and the sophisticated style of the stars gives the entire production a polished sheen. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas are all brilliant, but this is much more than a star vehicle. It's one of the best sophisticated comedies Hollywood ever committed to celluloid. And even 60 years later, the story is all too true.
Expectations were high and they were met, if not quite exceeded. Mean every word of my review summary, 'Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House' was a dream to watch and it is far from bland with such a good cast carrying the film so well. My only complaint of 'Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House' is that for my tastes the ending came over as too neatly wrapped up and convenient. Otherwise, the film was a delightful joy and just perfect for a cheering up on a rainy day or after a hard one.
The best thing about 'Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House' is the cast. Grant is his usual urbane and charming self in the best of ways and Loy has charm, elegance and comic timing in spades. Best of all is a hilarious and understated Douglas. The interplay just sparkles.
Another star is the script. The comedy is sparkling in wit, pointed and full of sophistication, the social commentary is interesting regardless of how of the time it is and whether it holds up or not (was enjoying myself and invested in the film to care) and there is a depth that makes it easy to identify with the situation when it is a scenario that is relevant today.
Story-wise, 'Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House' is slight but is never less than absorbing and there is enough going on to not make it too simple, neither does it get over-stuffed or too complicated. The characters to me were likeable and easy to identify with and the pace matches the wild situations very nicely.
Visually, the film isn't audacious but it has an elegant stylishness that is easy on the eye, particularly the photography. The direction is more than just competent and it doesn't feel stagy.
Overall, apart from the ending a delightful film. 9/10 Bethany Cox
This is certainly of particular interest to anyone who has ever faced either the kind of home-buying experience that the Blandings family goes through, or one of the many other similar experiences that life offers. The whole picture of having to deal with a bewildering assortment of contractors, workmen, lawyers, and who knows what else, is a very familiar feature of modern life, even for those who do not buy their own homes. The movie helps to point out some of the basic absurdities all of this, while providing some good humor.
The two sub-plots - the one with Melvyn Douglas and the other with Grant looking for the new slogan - are worked in rather resourcefully, so as to parallel some of the basic themes of the main story about the house, while also providing comic complications in the main plot.
Grant has the knack of making the wildest situations seem believable at the time, and even somewhat sophisticated. Loy's charm and elegance make her a very good complement to Grant's character. It's a good combination overall.
"Mr. Blandings Builds his Own House" is an extremely funny comedy, with witty lines and top-notch screenplay. Cary Grant is hilarious in the role of a man moved by the impulse of accomplishing with the American Dream of owning a huge house that finds that made bad choice, while losing his touch in his work and feeling jealous of his friend. In 1986, Tom Hanks worked in a very funny movie visibly inspired in this delightful classic, "The Money Pit". My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Lar, Meu Tormento" ("Home, My Torment")
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesMr. Blandings' yearly salary of $15,000 would be (adjusted for inflation) approximately $193,000 in 2024. The screenwriters had originally given him a salary of $10,000, but postwar inflation forced them to give him a raise before shooting began.
- GaffesThe foreman asks Mr. Blandings if the "lintels between the lally columns" should be rabbeted. However, the lintels are on the second floor of a two-story house. Lally columns are used in the basement or the first floor to provide support to the middle of long beams. They are not needed on the second floor.
- Citations
Muriel Blandings: I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin's egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I'd like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you'll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can't go wrong! Now, this is the paper we're going to use in the hall. It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There's some little dots in the background, and it's these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room - in here - I want you to match this thread, and don't lose it. It's the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it's practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me...
Mr. PeDelford: You got that Charlie?
Charlie, Painter: Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford: Check.
- Crédits fousOpening credits are shown on an architect's blueprints.
- Versions alternativesAlso available in colorized version.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990)
- Bandes originalesHome on the Range
(uncredited)
Written by Brewster M. Higley
Sung by Cary Grant and then Myrna Loy as they shower
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- Un million clé en main
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 5 995 000 $US
- Durée1 heure 34 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1