Flyerplesys
Perfectly adorable
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Freaktana
A Major Disappointment
bellino-angelo2014
I must have seen this movie almost 10 times in my life, catching it on TV, and I find myself caught by the story again and again. I love everything about this movie: the actors, the scenario (Rome's background), and the music score. Let me talk about the qualities of this movie: Audrey Hepburn (in her official movie debut) is wonderful, and sparkles all the way trough, and really deserved her Academy Award for Best Actress in 1954. Gregory Peck is fantastic as Joe Bradley, the American journalist that befriends and gives her hospitality in his flat and eventually, after some comic adventures, falls in love with her. And Eddie Albert is just great, as Irving Radovich, Bradley's colleague that tries to photograph the scoop of Princess Anna's visit in Rome. Eddie Albert should have won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor because this is one of his best roles, but he lost it thanks to Frank Sinatra for ''From Here to Eternity''.I must add that Albert was good not only in comedy, like in ''Green Acres'', but also in more darker roles, such as the frightened Army Captain in ''Attack!'' and the psychotic colonel in ''Captain Newman, M. D.'', and it's so sad that he wasn't nominated for these two roles!This is also the first comedy produced in America filmed entirely in Italy, and Rome's backgrounds, such as Trevi's Fountain, Piazza Di Spagna and the Colosseum are perfectly fit in the movie. The music is also nice, because it's not with the silly Perry Como songs, but the score is composed by Georges Auric, and fits like a glove the character's actions.My favorite parts are: when Audrey lets the Vespa go and goes smashing trough all of Rome's street-markets, and ends with Bradley and Radovich at the police station; and the ending, when Audrey salutes all the press correspondents and Bradley is the last to leave the room, after thinking of his experience in Rome with a princess.It's one of my top favorite movies, and I recommend this movie to everyone, just for a careless evening in ''Old Hollywood Style''!
beatricemike
I lost my boyfriend to another Girl, i was so heart broken.. I was in PAINS.. physically hurts in the chest.... emotionally distraught...wish there was a pill or shot to take that would make you feel all better..but today, OMG this is exactly how I feel..I feel so happy, i contact dr.mack in regard of getting my boyfriend back and Dr.mac@yahoo. com reunited i and my boyfriend together with his powers,
scildem
Some people called old but gold this film absolutely fit that description.It's romantic and emotional film and actor and actress perform very high.Also that film show us Roma's beauty and historical place.If you want to go Roma city I think firstly you should watch this film.William Wyler's film quality always very good , we can see Ben-Hur and The Best Years Our Lives.On the other hand Audrey Hepburn very good and beautiful too this movie.My opinion that film about money not enough to single happiness.Today it become old popularity The Roman Holiday.I hope in the future lots of people will watch this movie and have a fun.
l_rawjalaurence
What can be said about William Wyler's evergreen comedy that has not been said before? Suffice to state that it never loses its luster, even though it is over sixty years since its original release.Every element of the film seems perfectly shaped, from the memorable Hollywood debut of Audrey Hepburn, to the nuanced support offered by Gregory Peck; a witty script by John Dighton and Ian McLellan Hunter, based on a story by the then-blacklisted Dalton Trumbo; beautiful black-and-white photography of a Rome that no longer exists by Henri Alakan and Frank F. Planer; and taut direction by Wyler that gives plenty of opportunities for the actors to flourish while retaining the mystique of the Eternal City as a place where romance can occur, however briefly.The film has memorable nuanced moments, from the opening sequence where the Princess (Hepburn) undergoes an apparently endless series of presentations, while trying to stretch her feet under her voluminous dress; the sequence where she wears pajamas for the first time and falls asleep in Peck's bed during a chaste night away from the palace; the sequence taking place in the sidewalk café where Peck keeps telling his witless sidekick Nathan (Eddie Albert) to shut up about the Princess's true identity; and the memorable moment at the Bocca della Verita (aka the Mouth of Truth), where Peck puts his hand in and brings it out abruptly, scaring the living daylights out of the Princess as he does so.Nothing actually happens during the Princess's night away from her royal duties; her virtue remains intact, and she has a merry time dodging the Carabinieri and her Secret Service officers, in a comic fight sequence taking place near the Castel Saint'Angelo, which culminates in Peck and herself diving into the river and swimming to safety. ROMAN HOLIDAY conjures up a world that simply does not exist today of comic Italians waving their arms about expressively, of obliging cab-drivers and locals selling everything on the street from water- melons, flowers, and other junk. In these days of mass tourism commercial interests have taken over, and Rome's innocence - as well as a lot of its allure - has been lost in the process. Nonetheless we can enjoy a nostalgic wallow in the past through this film.
