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No Minor Vices

No Minor Vices
No Minor Vices 1948 poster.jpg
1948 US Theatrical Poster
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Produced by Lewis Milestone
Screenplay by Arnold Manoff
Story by Arnold Manoff
Starring Dana Andrews
Lilli Palmer
Louis Jourdan
Jane Wyatt
Music by Franz Waxman
Cinematography George Barnes
Edited by Robert Parrish
Production
company
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 12, 1948 (1948-11-12) (US Theatrical)
Running time
96 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $643,000

No Minor Vices is a 1948 American black-and-white comedy film written by Arnold Manoff and directed by Lewis Milestone with Robert Aldrich as 1st assistant director. Created for David Loew's Enterprise Productions, it was the first of three films distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after parting ways with United Artists, and was the last of four films made by Dana Andrews for director Milestone.

After the expensive flop of Arch of Triumph bankrupted Enterprise Productions, a film which United Artists called "probably the greatest commercial failure in the history of motion pictures", No Minor Vices was conceived as a means to keep Enterprise going until all possible revenues could be gotten from Arch of Triumph. Enterprise co-founder Charles Einfeld gave Lewis Milestone the title No Minor Vices and suggested he create film to go with it.

Milestone called in friends to make the film, with Dana Andrews even investing some of his own money in the project, but losing his investment when the film bombed. Andrews felt that part of No Minor Vices poor box office showings were due to the film being released by MGM rather than by United Artists, and with MGM not doing a decent a job in promoting as might have UA. Milestone chose to "play it safe" with the film. In order to keep audiencs interested in the simple plot line, Milestone would sometimes cut to a scene that had a little man in a window making cigars and reacting to things that had nothing to do with the scene just intercut. Film editor Robert Parrish reported that if a scene was lousy, Milestone could cut to this little guy, but the running gag was not enough upon which to build a film.No Minor Vices kept Enterprise alive as a company, but money was tight.

Successful pediatrician Perry Ashwell (Dana Andrews) takes his attractive wife April (Lilli Palmer) and their conservative lifestyle for granted. When he allows artist Octavio Quaglini (Louis Jourdan) into their lives to sketch their "inner selves", Octavio becomes enamoured with April and tries to steal her away from Perry.


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