The Driver's Seat |  | Directors: Elizabeth Taylor, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Mona Washbourne, Luigi Squarzina
Studio: Imd Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 58516
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dvd-video, Digital Sound, Full Screen, Original Recording Remastered, Restored, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 827421001085
EAN: 0827421001085
ASIN: B0000BZNH9
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1975
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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Condition: Brand New - Direct From Distributor - Never Opened Or Played!
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Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol… what more needs to be said? This is a fil you have got to have! A haunting, complex melodrama based on the best-selling Muriel Spark novel. Elizabeth Taylor, in one of her least-known performances, stars as a deranged, psychotic spinster looking for a man to whom she can give herself - completely. Set in Italy's romantic and tragedy-filled Rome, she embarks on a series of chilling adventures as she seeks to keep a date with a mystery lover…but when she finds him, she demands much more than love... She demands murder. - Starring Elizabeth Taylor with Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari & Andy Warhol. Original Music by Franco Mannino - Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro - Costume Design by Gabriella Pescucci - Art Direction by Mario Ceroli - Adapted from a novel "THE DRIVERS SEAT" by Muriel Sparks - Screen Play by Raffaele La Capria & Giuseppe Patroni Griffi - Produced by Franco Rossellini - Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
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 Boring, but it keeps one's interest anyway... October 12, 2007
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I give it two stars because it's a fascinating story, even though it's mostly boring. Taylor plays a disturbed woman who seeks a man to kill her. She gets her wish. The rest of it doesn't make much sense, but some parts will once you see the end. I doubt I'd watch this again. It's odd and even has weird sex scenes in it. It was controversial in its day, and it's certainly not her best movie. Nevertheless, you can't take your eyes from it once the film begins.
Leave the driving to someone else May 7, 2007
John Nixon (Fairacres, New Mexico USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The 60's film industry had some real gems and it also had some self absorbed mindless rambling celluloid trips that made you wonder what was in the blood stream of those who made them. This falls into the latter category. As a child of the 60's, I grew up loving even the lame products but this one is really stupid. The presence of Andy Warhol and Liz Taylor makes it seem like a project where all of their 'beautiful people' cronies got together to make a movie, the way you and your gang in your neighborhood put on a show using dad's old suits and the rusted farm implenments from the barn for props. The plot makes no sense, Taylor's purpose in the film plot is look good while wandering through it and the inevitble payoff in most 60's angst ridden films comes up at the end. I won't give it away, just believe me, it isn't worth the trip.
 Pretentious Arty Trash December 15, 2005
DonnaReviews (Northeast USA)
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
"The Driver's Seat" is pure arty trash, pretentious, boring and smugly self-conscious, a blatant exploitation of Elizabeth Taylor in which she was obviously a willing participant. Someone was smoking something when they concocted this one, but it's a-typical of the sort of stuff that tried hard to shock and be esoteric during the 70's. The plot, such as it is, concerns a woman sought by the police who wanders around, looking for the right man to kill her. Anyone who doesn't know what "going south" means might not realize her intent at first, but unless they're a diehard Elizabeth Taylor fan, I can't imagine they would care one way or the other what she's up to. Basically Taylor is in her "strange" phase, the anti-MGM star, and here she is becoming blowsy and given to wild and tasteless patterns in clothes and frizzy hair, her milieu during this period along with kaftans, but even when shrieking like a harridan or filmed with unforgiving, show-every-bump-on-the-complexion lighting (as is the case here), Taylor is still an amazingly beautiful woman on a scale that few have ever come close to. This is not one of her better performances, however; it is an excuse to show her clutching her own breasts and writhing on a bed and rolling around in seedy encounters with equally seedy men who spout such "clever" lines as, "I need my daily orgasm" and being as weird and self-indulgent as possible. Andy Warhol even makes an appearance. About as deep as a night at Studio 54 and every bit as banal. Only for those who like Elizabeth Taylor at her strangest or who have a prurient curiosity about seeing the actress in a see-through bra in one scene. She has been served better in other films, trust me. A bomb and a bore.
 THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE March 31, 2005
L. Ross (Scottsdale, Arizona United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a FILM. Elizabeth is a genius actress. This bizarre film proves it very much. She is such an instinctive actress it's fascinating to see her move through this film. There's no one like Elizabeth Taylor.
A very off-beat, disturbing and just excellent story and acting. I love the flavor of so many of the older movies. They have a reality to them and a real art. Elizabeth was also just terrific in "Night Watch" and "Secret Ceremony".
 Rare role for Taylor September 27, 2004
Christopher J. Clazie (London,UK)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Have just seen this movie on DVD,in it's complete version(it was released on VHS several years ago in a cut version).Fascinating but disturbing,it lures you into the strange world of a woman(TAYLOR),who is obviously insane and her sick obsession with finding the right man to kill her.Taylor,who was having problems of her own at the time,is masterfully in control of the most complex character she had ever played.In a finely nuanced performance,she shows that in the right situation,and with the right kind of role,she can deliver the goods.Vastly underrated at it's time of release(it was considered too disturbing for the general viewer),hardly released,and then lost for many years,it is now being rediscovered and rightly assessed as one of Taylor's really great performances.With it's piano soundtrack,it's use of white light to show us the divide between the reality of the world and Lise's insanity,and the strange event's that surround her 'trip',we watch as the film moves towards it's powerful,disturbing,inevitable closure.For people who appreciate a rare chance to watch a Hollywood great at her best,and a movie that draws you into a nightmare of the mind.
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