The Story Of A Cheat (1936) :
Brief Review -
Sacha Guiltry's immensely humourous and coolest dark comedy that does not cheat with the audience at all. This is perhaps the most entertaining crime comedy i have seen from 30s decades. Full of humour, brilliant screenwriting, interesting narration and what not, The Story Of A Cheat does not cheat anywhere to be blamed for. Among all the crime comedies i have seen so far from old Hollywood this one kept me hooked for entire 80 minutes including every single small dialogue such as Okay, Thank You and the Pauses as well. A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood. In every stage of his life he discovers something new, something innovative that might just blow your head. For instance, there is scene from his childhood where all the family member dies and he alone survives and later he discovers a theory that he survived because he was a cheat and rest of the members died because they were honest. I couldn't stop laughing there and then gave it a thought and believe it or not it made a phenomenal right sense out of wrong theories. Sacha tries an innovative idea of telling the narrative though narration and belive me every single minute worths it. What a brilliant narration it was. I was glued to the screen throughout the runtime despite the fact that there were hardly 20 dialogues in 80 minutes runtime, rest it was all about crispy narration. It was a major breakthrough for him as a filmmaker. As an actor he justifies his role with an convincing act with lots of varieties. Bit of a flirt, few tricks, some gimmicks, nasty characteristics, wild Romance and meeting human values at the end, these all elements have been used in perfect order to make The Story Of A Cheat a brilliant film. Overall, exquisite. One of the most entertaining cheat job ever done.
RATING - 7.5/10*
By - #samthebestest
Sacha Guiltry's immensely humourous and coolest dark comedy that does not cheat with the audience at all. This is perhaps the most entertaining crime comedy i have seen from 30s decades. Full of humour, brilliant screenwriting, interesting narration and what not, The Story Of A Cheat does not cheat anywhere to be blamed for. Among all the crime comedies i have seen so far from old Hollywood this one kept me hooked for entire 80 minutes including every single small dialogue such as Okay, Thank You and the Pauses as well. A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood. In every stage of his life he discovers something new, something innovative that might just blow your head. For instance, there is scene from his childhood where all the family member dies and he alone survives and later he discovers a theory that he survived because he was a cheat and rest of the members died because they were honest. I couldn't stop laughing there and then gave it a thought and believe it or not it made a phenomenal right sense out of wrong theories. Sacha tries an innovative idea of telling the narrative though narration and belive me every single minute worths it. What a brilliant narration it was. I was glued to the screen throughout the runtime despite the fact that there were hardly 20 dialogues in 80 minutes runtime, rest it was all about crispy narration. It was a major breakthrough for him as a filmmaker. As an actor he justifies his role with an convincing act with lots of varieties. Bit of a flirt, few tricks, some gimmicks, nasty characteristics, wild Romance and meeting human values at the end, these all elements have been used in perfect order to make The Story Of A Cheat a brilliant film. Overall, exquisite. One of the most entertaining cheat job ever done.
RATING - 7.5/10*
By - #samthebestest