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The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

EVERY GIRL OR FELLOW WHO EVER KEPT A “BLIND DATE”

99 min12 January 1940 8.1EN
Romance
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Budget: $500,000
holiday seasonco-workers relationshipintrospectivecuriousquestioning

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What People Say

Cynthia Miller
Along those lines, visual composition that belongs in a museum. This feature the direction keeps you engaged from start to finish. Do yourself a favor and see this.
John Chard
ngl I felt that ah, epistolary love, delightful. This is the story of Matuschek and Company - - of Mr. Klara Novak seeks work at Hugo Matuschek's Budapest store, after initially being turned down by head clerk Alfred Kralik, she gains employment after impressing the originally gruff Matuschek himself.
Elizabeth Anderson
Not exactly what I was hoping for, but not bad either. Our group thought musical choices that feel somewhat uninspired. A fair 6.9/10 from me.

Viewer Opinions (5)

John Chard@John Chard
★★★★★ 9.0
ngl I felt that ah, epistolary love, delightful. It is just around the corner from Andrassy Street - - on Balta Street, in Budapest, Hungary. …
28 December 2019VerifiedUser Review
CinemaSerf@Geronimo1967
★★★★☆ 8.0
What we know from early on is that both are engaged, enthusiastically, in a pen-pal relationship unaware of the true identities of each other - and their antics as the first meeting looms ever closer make for highly entertaining stuff to watch. The scenes in the stockroom where they are moving what are clearly empty boxes, the character actors in support - especially Joseph Schildkraut ("Vadaz") and the ever reliable Felix Bressart ("Pirovitch") frequently raise a smile that said it's always Morgan who steals the scenes as the amiable employer who gets the wrong end of the stick. Things take a bit of a downturn when, suddenly, "Kralik" falls a little foul of his normally jovial, somewhat dithery, boss - and though the audience can readily guess why, it takes a while for the old gent to realise the error of his ways. …
23 June 2022VerifiedUser Review
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Cynthia Miller@millerc16331 opinions · User since 2011
★★★★★ 10.0
This feature the direction keeps you engaged from start to finish. Along those lines, visual composition that belongs in a museum. …
26 September 1941User Review

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