A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.
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Did you know
- Trivia'Evening Primrose' was filmed and originally broadcast in color, but the color master has since been lost.
- GoofsThe dialogue suggests that the film is set in 1940, when the short story upon which the movie is based was written. However, portions were filmed in a real store during off-hours, so there are countless things from the '60s featured throughout, including vehicles, clothing, hi-fi record players and other electronics, and the prominently featured book "Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum," which was first published in 1965.
- Quotes
Charles Snell: What goes on here?
Roscoe Potts: Life, my boy. And death, of course. You can't have one without the other.
- Alternate versionsThe program was shot and telecast in color, but the master videotape vanished from the vaults decades ago. The DVD version is in black-and-white, transferred from the best of the three kinescope prints which are known to exist.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Nutcracker (2008)
Featured review
Definitely worth the discovery
By all means not mind-blowingly amazing, more interesting and good. There are moments of clumsy direction, especially with the mannequins, the special effects are rather substandard and hindered by budget and Charmian Carr's singing voice sometimes did sound on the weak side. The settings are decent though for its budget and give the production a creepy but also melancholic look. The stage direction succeeds in being frightening and poignant, while the photography is decent and the sound while it could have been sharper was serviceable enough. Anthony Perkins is charming and commanding with a pleasant singing voice- just 6 years since playing one of Hitchcock's creepiest and most iconic villains in Psycho-, and Charmian Carr is an attractive partner for him with her acting faring better than her singing. Dorothy Stickney deftly-characterises and seems to be having fun with her role. Stephen Sondheim's score and songs though are the real star, and while not one of his best scores they are of high quality, I Remember and Take Me to the World are outstanding. Overall, not a classic but worth discovering. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Sep 26, 2013
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- Filming locations
- West 42nd St, New York City, New York, USA(Classic NY Website - A new flagship store was built in 1913 close to West 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The new location had nine floors of retail space and purchasing offices in the basement. The new location focused more of their attention on clientele from the nearby Theater District and the Carriage Trade. Many local actors stopped by the store while on break from their theater production. The store was busiest between the hours of 11 am to 2 pm, when people working in and around the area were on their lunch hours.)
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- Runtime1 hour
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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