Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
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- TriviaIn her biography Myrna Loy recalled working with her longtime friend Melvyn Douglas on this TV film. "Mel and I have some lovely moments in Death Takes a Holiday. We finished the last of them way up on the hill at Universal, when suddenly we heard a studio tour guide bellowing, 'And this is Rock Hudson's dressing room.' The travelogue persisted throughout our gentle scene. 'O.K.!' Mel roared when we finished. 'I've had it!' He stomped off the set and flew back to New York on the next plane without doing his dubs. Universal had to send someone after him to record them, which delighted me. It is really such an insult to actors to work under those circumstances."
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David Smith: I came here to solve what for me has been a riddle for as long as there's been life. I had to understand why people cling so tenaciously to living... why they're so afraid of what I can bring them. I want to know what is there that makes men and women fight so desperately to remain in a world so unhappy, so filled with hate and now so polluted with real poisons.
- ConnectionsRemake of Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
The Angel of Death (Markham) sees a dying girl (Mimieux) but instead of taking her soul, he brings her back to life. After all, he really is not a person and doesn't understand us. And, through the young lady, he hopes to experience, for a brief time, what it is to be human. The young lady falls for him...though over time, her father starts to realize who their strange house guest might be...especially since from the time he arrived, no one...not a single soul on Earth has died!! And, while this might SEEM to be a good thing...it really isn't as mangled and twisted bodies inexplicably cannot be released through death.
Monte Markham is an actor most folks who grew up in the 60s and 70s would recognize...at least his face. And, as death, he does a nice job. It's also nice to have Douglas and Loy on hand to offer the film a real sense of quality and class. I still prefer the original and urge you to try this first, but this TV version is still worth your time because the story is so strong.
- planktonrules
- Mar 2, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1