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The Public Eye

( Catalog Number 41477 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

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Not Available on DVD

The Public Eye
1992 - 99 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Based on the life of Arthur "Weegee the Famous" Fellig, the tabloid photographer who worked in New York City in the 1930's and 1940's. Leon "The Great Bernzy" Bernstein specializes in photographs of crime, death, and life on the streets.  He is always able to scoop his competitors, frequently arriving at crime scenes before even the police and developing the photographs in the trunk of his car. When a beautiful night-club owner, who is being blackmailed, comes to him for help, he finds himself in trouble with the Mafia.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
`The Public Eye" contains a couple of great juicy movie performances. They're from Joe Pesci and Barbara Hershey, playing New York City fringe-dwellers who try to make a living from the kinds of people who come out after dark. They also fall in love, I think. You may think differently. They're the kind of people who should ask themselves, "Am I really in love, or does it just feel so good when I stop hitting myself over the head with this pistol butt "

It's the 1940s. Pesci plays a guy named Bernzy, who is a free-lance photographer for the tabloids. He cruises the night in a souped-up coupe with a police radio under the dash and a darkroom in the trunk. He takes pictures of mobsters, politicians, crooks, gamblers, cops and ladies who ain't no ladies. A lot of these people are dead when they sit for their portraits. When Bernzy sells a picture to the Daily News, they run a credit line that says "Photo by the Great Bernzini."

He takes his work seriously. Someday he wants to publish a book of his photos. He thinks ordinary pictures of ordinary people can be art. Bernzy reminds me of Weegee, the great New York street photographer who also took pictures of the disreputable and the unlovely and thought his work was art. They laughed at him, but check out his prices in the galleries.

Bernzy is the perpetual outsider. His relationships are all through the view-finder. One night Kay Levitz (Hershey) asks him for a favor. She runs a nightclub she inherited from her husband, who was old when she married him and dead shortly after. There are people who think she married him to get the club. Now they want the club, but they don't want to marry her. They want to muscle her out. Kay thinks maybe Bernzy can give her some advice, help her out.

He is willing to try. He is willing, despite his lifetime policy: "Don't get involved." Writer-director Howard Franklin is subtle and touching in the way he modulates the key passages between Pesci and Hershey. There is a lot that goes unsaid between them. We can maybe guess from Bernzy's eyes and actions how he feels about her, but he never tells her. He keeps his distance. He can maybe hope she feels the same way. She plays it close.

The movie surrounds them with a gallery of colorful nighttime characters - vice detectives, rival photographers, mob bosses, broken-down critics who mourn the bad novels they never wrote. The photography occupies the beloved territory of film noir: night, wet streets, cars with running boards, dames with low necklines, guys with diamond pinky rings, empty marble newspaper lobbies, guns, highballs, furnished apartments. This was an era when the good guys smoked cigars and the bad guys smoked cigarettes.

One of the best things about the movie is the way it shows us how seriously Bernzy takes his work. He doesn't talk about it. He does it, with that cigar stuck in his mug, leading the way with the big, ungainly Speed Graphic with the glass flashbulbs. In the movie's big scene of a mob assassination, he stares death in the face to get a great picture. He doesn't even seem especially noble. It's what he bred himself to do. At one point he is asked to turn off the police radio in his car, and he says, "It doesn't turn off." This is his philosophy of life.

The plot of the movie advances the story on the surface, while the romance develops in an unacknowledged subterranean fashion. Everything leads up to a moment when Bernzy turns his head away from her and says, "You have no idea what I would have done for you." This is the best kind of love - unrequited. There are moments in "The Public Eye" that made me think a little about &

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Cast for The Public Eye

Joe Pesci - Leonard "The Great Bernzini" Bernstein
Barbara Hershey - Kay Levitz
Stanley Tucci - Sal Minetto
Jerry Adler - Arthur Nabler
Jared Harris - Danny the Doorman
Gerry Becker - Conklin
Dominic Chianese - Spoleto
Del Close - H.R. Rineman
Richard Foronjy - Farinelli
Bob Gunton - Older Agent
Joe Guzaldo - Spoleto's Lieutenant
Peter Maloney - Federal Watchman
Richard Riehle - Officer O'Brien
Al Mancini - Camera Shop Clerk
Phil Locker - Arresting Cop
Tom Lauricella - 2nd Photographer
Louie Lanciloti - Mikey
George Lugg - 3rd Photographer
Marge Kotlisky - Rineman's Receptionist
Nick Tate - Henry Haddock Jr.
Christian Stolti - Ambulance Attendant
Randall Stanton - Federal Guard
John M. Watson, Sr. - Sculllion
Jason Wells - Garage Attendant
Ellen McElduff - Lonely Woman at Drugsore
Kyle Moore - Young Agent
Mick McGovern - Cop with Hood
Bryan Smith - Young Cop
Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi - Maitre d'
Richard Schiff - Photographer-Thompson Street
Jean Zarzour - Sal's Wife
Jack Denbo - Photo Editor
Laura Cerone - Puerto Rican Woman
Teresa di Marco - Mrs. D'Angelo
Kevin Dorsey - Singer
Shay Duffin - Chief of Police
Vinny Argiro - Sergeant at Police Station
Ian Abercrombie - Mr. Brown
Max Brooks - Teen at Thompson Street
Henry Bolzon - Photographer at Cafe
Maurice Bravo - 1st Photographer
Donna Isaacson
Patricia Healy - Vera
Joe V. Greco - Villa Guard-Hitman
Timothy Hendrickson - Richard Rineman
David Hull - Thatcher White
John Farris - Albert Gerard
Steve Forleo - Hood
Toni Fleming - Sal's Mother
Chuck Gillespie - Cop-Puerto Rican Tenement
Tim Gamble - Agent Chadwick
David Gianopoulos - Portofino

Crew for The Public Eye

Sue Baden-Powell - Producer
Robert Zemeckis - Producer
Howard Franklin - Screenwriter / Director
Peter Suschitzky - Cinematographer
Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score)
Mark Isham - Composer (Music Score)
Evan Lottman - Editor
Marcia Hinds-Johnson - Production Designer
Bo Johnson - Art Director
Dina Lipton - Art Director
Jane Robinson - Costume Designer

Feature Details

Title: The Public Eye
Feature Release Date: 1992
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 99 Minutes
Chapters: 27
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 21 Apr 1993
Catalog Number: 41477
UPC: 096894147761
ISBN: 0783204558
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: MCA/Universal Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 41477
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare Dolby Surround Sound, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with some shelf-wear

Joe Pesci and Barbara Hershey in...

The Public Eye

( Catalog Number 41477 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Not Available on DVD

The Public Eye
1992 - 99 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Based on the life of Arthur "Weegee the Famous" Fellig, the tabloid photographer who worked in New York City in the 1930's and 1940's. Leon "The Great Bernzy" Bernstein specializes in photographs of crime, death, and life on the streets.  He is always able to scoop his competitors, frequently arriving at crime scenes before even the police and developing the photographs in the trunk of his car. When a beautiful night-club owner, who is being blackmailed, comes to him for help, he finds himself in trouble with the Mafia.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
`The Public Eye" contains a couple of great juicy movie performances. They're from Joe Pesci and Barbara Hershey, playing New York City fringe-dwellers who try to make a living from the kinds of people who come out after dark. They also fall in love, I think. You may think differently. They're the kind of people who should ask themselves, "Am I really in love, or does it just feel so good when I stop hitting myself over the head with this pistol butt "

It's the 1940s. Pesci plays a guy named Bernzy, who is a free-lance photographer for the tabloids. He cruises the night in a souped-up coupe with a police radio under the dash and a darkroom in the trunk. He takes pictures of mobsters, politicians, crooks, gamblers, cops and ladies who ain't no ladies. A lot of these people are dead when they sit for their portraits. When Bernzy sells a picture to the Daily News, they run a credit line that says "Photo by the Great Bernzini."

He takes his work seriously. Someday he wants to publish a book of his photos. He thinks ordinary pictures of ordinary people can be art. Bernzy reminds me of Weegee, the great New York street photographer who also took pictures of the disreputable and the unlovely and thought his work was art. They laughed at him, but check out his prices in the galleries.

Bernzy is the perpetual outsider. His relationships are all through the view-finder. One night Kay Levitz (Hershey) asks him for a favor. She runs a nightclub she inherited from her husband, who was old when she married him and dead shortly after. There are people who think she married him to get the club. Now they want the club, but they don't want to marry her. They want to muscle her out. Kay thinks maybe Bernzy can give her some advice, help her out.

He is willing to try. He is willing, despite his lifetime policy: "Don't get involved." Writer-director Howard Franklin is subtle and touching in the way he modulates the key passages between Pesci and Hershey. There is a lot that goes unsaid between them. We can maybe guess from Bernzy's eyes and actions how he feels about her, but he never tells her. He keeps his distance. He can maybe hope she feels the same way. She plays it close.

The movie surrounds them with a gallery of colorful nighttime characters - vice detectives, rival photographers, mob bosses, broken-down critics who mourn the bad novels they never wrote. The photography occupies the beloved territory of film noir: night, wet streets, cars with running boards, dames with low necklines, guys with diamond pinky rings, empty marble newspaper lobbies, guns, highballs, furnished apartments. This was an era when the good guys smoked cigars and the bad guys smoked cigarettes.

One of the best things about the movie is the way it shows us how seriously Bernzy takes his work. He doesn't talk about it. He does it, with that cigar stuck in his mug, leading the way with the big, ungainly Speed Graphic with the glass flashbulbs. In the movie's big scene of a mob assassination, he stares death in the face to get a great picture. He doesn't even seem especially noble. It's what he bred himself to do. At one point he is asked to turn off the police radio in his car, and he says, "It doesn't turn off." This is his philosophy of life.

The plot of the movie advances the story on the surface, while the romance develops in an unacknowledged subterranean fashion. Everything leads up to a moment when Bernzy turns his head away from her and says, "You have no idea what I would have done for you." This is the best kind of love - unrequited. There are moments in "The Public Eye" that made me think a little about &

Thanks for Visiting DaDon's !

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Cast for The Public Eye

Joe Pesci - Leonard "The Great Bernzini" Bernstein
Barbara Hershey - Kay Levitz
Stanley Tucci - Sal Minetto
Jerry Adler - Arthur Nabler
Jared Harris - Danny the Doorman
Gerry Becker - Conklin
Dominic Chianese - Spoleto
Del Close - H.R. Rineman
Richard Foronjy - Farinelli
Bob Gunton - Older Agent
Joe Guzaldo - Spoleto's Lieutenant
Peter Maloney - Federal Watchman
Richard Riehle - Officer O'Brien
Al Mancini - Camera Shop Clerk
Phil Locker - Arresting Cop
Tom Lauricella - 2nd Photographer
Louie Lanciloti - Mikey
George Lugg - 3rd Photographer
Marge Kotlisky - Rineman's Receptionist
Nick Tate - Henry Haddock Jr.
Christian Stolti - Ambulance Attendant
Randall Stanton - Federal Guard
John M. Watson, Sr. - Sculllion
Jason Wells - Garage Attendant
Ellen McElduff - Lonely Woman at Drugsore
Kyle Moore - Young Agent
Mick McGovern - Cop with Hood
Bryan Smith - Young Cop
Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi - Maitre d'
Richard Schiff - Photographer-Thompson Street
Jean Zarzour - Sal's Wife
Jack Denbo - Photo Editor
Laura Cerone - Puerto Rican Woman
Teresa di Marco - Mrs. D'Angelo
Kevin Dorsey - Singer
Shay Duffin - Chief of Police
Vinny Argiro - Sergeant at Police Station
Ian Abercrombie - Mr. Brown
Max Brooks - Teen at Thompson Street
Henry Bolzon - Photographer at Cafe
Maurice Bravo - 1st Photographer
Donna Isaacson
Patricia Healy - Vera
Joe V. Greco - Villa Guard-Hitman
Timothy Hendrickson - Richard Rineman
David Hull - Thatcher White
John Farris - Albert Gerard
Steve Forleo - Hood
Toni Fleming - Sal's Mother
Chuck Gillespie - Cop-Puerto Rican Tenement
Tim Gamble - Agent Chadwick
David Gianopoulos - Portofino

Crew for The Public Eye

Sue Baden-Powell - Producer
Robert Zemeckis - Producer
Howard Franklin - Screenwriter / Director
Peter Suschitzky - Cinematographer
Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score)
Mark Isham - Composer (Music Score)
Evan Lottman - Editor
Marcia Hinds-Johnson - Production Designer
Bo Johnson - Art Director
Dina Lipton - Art Director
Jane Robinson - Costume Designer

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