Promise Her Anything (1966) coming from Kino

[whiteberry]

It was announced by Kino's Frank Tarzi on episode 4 of Shelf Space.



The Burt Bacharach/Hal David title song sung by Tom Jones:

Promise Her Anything (Main Theme) & A Little You (B-Side) - Tom Jones Stereo 1965 - YouTube

Soundtrack:
https://www.discogs.com/master/86321...Motion-Picture

[tehthomas]

Just announced as a 4K restoration. Siked for this. The only Warren Beatty film I've yet to watch.

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Coming June 17th!
https://kinolorber.com/product/promise-her-anything

PROMISE HER ANYTHING (1966)
• Brand New HD Master by Paramount Pictures – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian and Author Dwayne Epstein
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles
• Reversible Art

Color 98 Minutes 1.85:1 NR
Blondes, brunettes, redheads. Babes are no problem for adults-only filmmaker Harley Rummel (Warren Beatty, Heaven Can Wait). But a baby is nothing but one comic complication after another! When an attractive single mom (Leslie Caron, Gigi) finds out the pediatrician (Robert Cummings, The Carpetbaggers) she’s sizing up for the altar hates kids, she leaves the baby in Harley’s care—and that sparks a riotous, romantic free-for-all! A sharp script by A Shot in the Dark and The Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty and delightful direction by Arthur Hiller (helmsman of classics like Love Story, Silver Streak, The Out-of-Towners and The In-Laws) keep the sizzling romance and zany gags zinging along in this laughfest described by Time as “an amiable, entertaining fiction…Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness.” Featuring the swinging title song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, and performed by Tom Jones!

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...3#post23052983

[tehthomas]

I'm digging the groovy reversible art. Wish it would've come with a slip. At least there's a commentary, would've been cool to get an interview with Beatty, but I doubt he would make himself available to discuss such an obscure movie in his filmography.

[HaroldnMaude]

Watching this now. It looks fantastic. But the plot/script is pretty lousy. By this time in the 60's they were running out of ideas for the type of silly romance/sex comedies that had started with Pillow Talk.
Beatty isn't bad though.
Bob Cummings as a 56 year old bachelor living with his mother raises plenty of questions of the intentions. He's pretty campy, though it seems in real life he was completely heterosexual.
Early on Donald Sutherland has an short walk on.

[HaroldnMaude]

I started listening to the commentary on the second watch, but it is so rambling and ill prepared, that I maybe made it through 15 minutes. He read from someone else's book. But I did learn things in that short time I didn't know: Beatty & Caron had been having a affair, and her husband filed to gain custody of their two children, so she had to go back to London. Beatty followed her, and they came up with this film as a way to work together in London where it was filmed, as a stand-in for Greenwich Village. Shortly after completing the film Caron broke off the affair with Beatty.