'At Long Last Love': Let's Misbehave/De-Lovely

Burt Reynolds and Cybil Shepherd give an extraordinarily charming performance of Cole Porter's songs in Peter Bogdanovich's absolutely wonderful tribute to the golden age of film musicals, 'At Long Last Love'.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lets
• misbehave
• delovely
• bogdanovich
• cole
• porter
• cybil
• shepherd
• burt
• reynolds

[vonhumboldtfleischer]

It's not out on any format. The only copy circulating is a 3rd generation bootleg from a TV broadcast in the 1980s.

[zamusicza]

I thought Cybill was perfect. If they had cast someone other than Burt, who I like, it could have worked.

[mca1218]

I do like Burt Reynolds' Clark Gable impersonation @ 3:08, and the little skip he does at the door step.

I saw this in the theater the year it came out, and the audience laughed hysterically through the whole film. I just thought they were laughing because it was a musical, not because it was judged to be especially bad. (I was 14 at the time, and really didn't understand the difference.) Nevertheless, I wish it would come out on DVD so I could watch it again.

[jackal59]

She's kind of o.k., though the arrangement is nonsensical. I agree,though, that describing Reynolds as "godawful" is kind. Not even Madeline Kahn could save this crap, could she?

[mattyjg1]

We just watched the whole movie on Netflix streaming it's actually enjoyable and fun!

[JMagnusss]

She is actually good but he is god awful and ruins it entirely.

[piglutoivolon]

@vonhumboldtfleischer do you know where to get it

[Kemster79]

We'll never see the likes of this type of movie again. A quintisential product of Hollywoods second golden age when auteur directors like Spielberg, Scorsese, Friedkin and Bogdanovich were given total control over their work with sometimes disastrous results. As for this, I've read a lot about it but it's notoriously hard to get hold of so not really able to make a qualified judgement. Thanks for posting the clip.

[Goodiesfanful]

I reckon the best part was when they fall into the bush at the end.

So it's not out in any format? Perhaps they are too embarrassed with the film's notoriety and any release becoming a hit with bad film buffs.

[LivelyLorikeet]

I read about this movie in the book The Fifty Worst Films of all time, and it sounds hilarious.

[krakenwave]

Bogdanovich had the conceit of recording this soundtrack singing live on set (instead of a studio recordings). He also made the film largely to justify his cheating on his missus with Cybill - by making a 'romantic comedy' where everyone falls in love with each others' partners and happy ever after. I saw this at the cinema. I was 9. The horror.