“Roman Holiday” (Bullz-Eye DVD Review)
Believe it or not, there was a time when Hollywood was able to fashion love stories that even hardnosed male audiences could tolerate (or, if you could get them to admit it, actually love). Still, not many of these were as successful at combining some fairly broad comedy with bittersweet hearts and flowers as the adult fairytale that introduced Audrey Hepburn to an adoring world.
“Roman Holiday” brings us the 24-year-old Miss Hepburn as Princess Ann, the future queen of a nameless European country. Visiting Rome as part of a continental tour, the young woman is frustrated to the point of depression by her grinding schedule of state visits and diplomatic functions. Desperate, she escapes her lavish quarters while still under the influence of a potent sleeping drug. She is soon found, apparently dead drunk, by struggling journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) who, rather than leave her to the mercies of the Roman street, brings the incoherent beauty to his apartment to sleep it off. When Bradley figures out that his reluctant act of gallantry has put a hugely lucrative news story right in the palm of his hand, he decides to help the lonely princess get the day of pure fun she so desires – while documenting the gossip story of the decade with the help of his photographer buddy, Irving (Eddie Albert). Naturally, true romance will throw a plus-size monkey wrench into his cynical plans.
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