Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
萌鸡小队临时撤档，只能看这个，真不好看，小孩子都很躁动不安
牛爷爷是挺可怕的啊，把小朋友带到家里，给他们喝不明饮料，还给他们看又粗又大的棍子。
炒冷饭～and有点无聊，没有什么创新，剧本都没改💔就是给四岁小孩看的。
放到普通剧集里大概会让我觉得是还不错的一集，但作为特辑总会期待特别些的东西，毕竟这个循环也太老套了…感情线出来着实震惊，而且和这集气氛环境也不搭，是很大一个扣分点。虽然百合我的菜，但拜托cc你写感情线之前先把人物精细刻画下啊，不要整天让主角担任工具人，然后在前线随便搞一些铺垫就以为这样的发展就显得顺理成章水到渠成！（每年都喊着弃剧的我居然又老老实实补回来了，这都是对RTD的爱啊！）
中规中矩，除了最后一大堆人在排队数数有新意，其他没什么亮点
前半段只是把之前播过的东西又放了一遍吧，我一开始还以为是全新的故事。。。关爱老人的话题还蛮好的
和以前看的动画片剧情一模一样，白瞎我电影票钱
整体不错，传递给孩子爱老助老的价值观，后面的歌舞有点凑时长之嫌。
很不错，不应该打这么低的分。不过最后的结局的确有点问题。既然知道薛定谔的盒子打开，猫是活着的，又怎么会自己也变成同时是生和死状态的猫呢？？？影片之前已经有明确的伏笔，一个人出了意外没死，却成为了天才。这就说明生死状态同时存在，结果就成为了另一种存在。而影片的结局，等于是否定了这种可能，这就非常说不过去了。除非是片方想要放弃拍续集，打算封死拍续集的可能，不然也没法解释，为什么结局和前面的铺垫不一致。
买老房子一定要查清楚是不是吉屋，便宜没好货。
虽然大致故事和细节几乎可以猜出来，但是仍然很感动。
20211002新彩云，带了俩两个孩子去看，可能更适合低龄儿童吧。开头前一排有孩子被吓哭，而后又被逗乐，全场就是他们那面动静大，大的让大家都跟着笑。主要讲关爱老人的故事，我很难过，这几天想的都是老了以后的事情，做好了核酸明天去看医院看老人，提前准备好他们爱吃的食物。今天还说起老了应该就是开着房车四处旅行了吧。我不过笑笑而已。
张小丽的配音没有以前好了，也有好几个部分完全是照搬以前的剧集。
不愿再笑，全程无逻辑，没剧情，捕风捉影，故弄玄虚，最后居然发现鬼是一头牛，怎么不是一头猪呢，近几年看过最差的恐怖电影，人都看傻了
最喜欢的动画片带着满满的期待去了 真的很失望这波炒冷饭骗钱我真的呕了
且看且珍惜，14竟然是29岁👱🏿♂️男演员…期待RTD回归
这不是糊弄人吗？就是把TV版的几集原封不动搬到电影院了，哦，不对，加了一段尬舞嘎唱
从评分看，美食狂想曲是被低估的电影，霸王龙在行动是被高估的电影。
9.24港汇sfc点映 各位主创还有牛犇爷爷也来了
Doctor真是个lady killer
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