Unfaithfully Yours (1984 film)

Infobox Film
name = Unfaithfully Yours
(1984)


image_size = 215px
caption = theatrical poster
director = Howard Zieff
producer = Daniel Melnick "(exec)"
Joe Wizan
Marvin Worth
writer = Preston Sturges
"(previous screenplay)"
Valerie Curtin
Barry Levinson
Robert Klane
starring = Dudley Moore
Nastassja Kinski
music = Bill Conti "(score)"
Steven Bishop "(song)"
cinematography = David M. Walsh
editing = Sheldon Kahn
distributor = 20th Century-Fox
released = 10 February fy|1984
runtime = 96 minutes
country = FilmUS
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0088326

"Unfaithfully Yours" is a 1984 romantic comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, starring Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski and featuring Armand Assante and Albert Brooks. The screenplay was written by Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, and Robert Klane based on Preston Sturges' screenplay for the 1948 film of the same name. The original music score is by Bill Conti and the song "Unfaithfully Yours (One Love)" was written for the film and performed by Stephen Bishop.

Plot

Claude Eastman (Dudley Moore) is a composer and the conductor of a prestigious symphony who has recently married beautiful Daniella (Nastassja Kinski), a much younger woman. While travelling, he sends a message to his friend Norman Robbins (Albert Brooks) to keep an eye on his wife, but the message is garbled by Claude's Italian valet Giuseppe (Richard Libertini), and instead of looking after Daniella, Norman hires a private detective named Keller (Richard B. Shull) to investigate her.

The private eye's report, which comes with a fuzzy video, is that Daniella had an assignation with a man who, by the clothing he wears, appears to be Maxmillian Stein (Armand Assante), a handsome violinist with the orchestra – and Claude's protegé – who is well known as a ladies man.

Claude confronts Daniella, who feels guilty because she is keeping a secret from her husband, only not the one he thinks it is. When she tells him that it's no big deal, Claude is enraged. As he conducts Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto", an elaborate plan to kill Daniella and frame Max for the murder runs through his mind, but afterwards, when he tries to carry out his plan, unforseen circumstances intervene. [rcs0411 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088326/plotsummary Plot summary (IMDB)] ] [Betzold, Michael [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:51840 Plot synopsis (Allmovie)] ] [Canby, Vincent [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=940CE4DA153BF933A25751C0A962948260&oref=slogin "Film: Unfaithfully Yours"] "New York Times" (10 February 1984)]

Cast

*Dudley Moore as Claude Eastman
*Nastassja Kinski as Daniella Eastman
*Armand Assante as Maxmillian Stein
*Albert Brooks as Norman Robbins
*Cassie Yates as Carla Robbins
*Richard Libertini as Giuseppe
*Richard B. Shull as Jess Keller
*Jan Triska as Jerzy Czyrek
*Jane Hallaren as Janet
*Bernard Behrens as Bill Lawrence
*Leonard Mann as Screen lover

Cast notes:
*Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X has a small part in the film. [imdb name|0787063|Betty Shabazz]

Production

The project to remake Preston Sturges' fy|1948 film, which was an artistic success but not a financial one, was originally intended for Peter Sellers, before his death in fy|1980. [imdb title|0088326|Unfaithfully Yours (1984)]

Notes

External links

*imdb title|0088326|Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
*tcmdb title|94455|Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
*amg title|1:51840|Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=940CE4DA153BF933A25751C0A962948260&oref=slogin Review] in the "New York Times"