Roman Holiday Reviews

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October 03,2009

MrVisa

Interesting bit of fact, Hunter fronted for Dalton Trumbo in this movie and was reinstated in the credits forty years after the movie. Blacklisting... actors killed their livelihood and also any project they were on. Forty years after the award, the truth came out: Hunter had acted as a "front" for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Ironically, Hunter was, himself, hounded out of Hollywood during the Red Scare and forced to work pseudonymously until 1979. Full Review

December 26,2008

OnlySachse

Critic Reviews

[William Wyler] times the chuckles with a never-flagging pace, puts heart into the laughs, endows the footage with some boff bits of business and points up some tender, poignant scenes in using the smart script and the cast to the utmost advantage.Full Review

Variety

[William Wyler] times the chuckles with a never-flagging pace, puts heart into the laughs, endows the footage with some boff bits of business and points up some tender, poignant scenes in using the smart script and the cast to the utmost advantage.Full Review

Staff (Not Credited)

Variety

It delivers on everything it promises, from the modern day reverse-Cinderella fable to a fabric of low-key humor. [Review of re-release]Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

It is a contrived fable but a bittersweet legend with laughs that leaves the spirits soaring.Full Review

A. W.

The New York Times

Witty, warm and beautifully filmed by Franz Planer and Henri Alekan, it remains an unabashed romantic delight, with Hepburn particularly luminescent. [Review of re-release]Full Review

David Parkinson

Empire