Storyline
Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Directors
Cast
Lawrence Tierney, Mark Margolis, Richard Hamilton, Paul Gleason, Phyllis Somerville, Raymond Serra, Ted Ross, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Marcella Lowery, Steve James, Liza Minnelli, Bob Maroff, Stephen Elliott, Lou Jacobi, Helen Hanft, Jill Eikenberry, Dudley Moore, John Gielgud, Anne De Salvo, Barney Martin, Mary Alan Hokanson, Irving Metzman, Thomas Barbour, George Riddle, Bobo Lewis, Marjorie Barnes, Dillon Evans, Maurice Copeland, Justine Johnson, Paul Vincent, Joe Doolan, John Doolan, Melissa Ballan, Florence Tarlow, Gordon Press, Jerome Collamore, Mark Fleischman, John Bentley, Peter Evans, Dominic Guastaferro, Phil Oxnam, B. Constance Barry, Kurt Schlesinger
Trailer
Reviews
90
Arthur is a terrifically engaging, high-spirited screwball comedy about Arthur's more or less accidental salvation, largely through the love of a good, very poor but equally daffy young woman named Linda Marolla (Liza Minnelli).
88
You might be tempted to think that Arthur would be a bore, because it is about a drunk who is always trying to tell you stories. You would be right if Arthur were a party and you were attending it. But Arthur is a movie. And so its drunk, unlike real drunks, is more entertaining, more witty, more human, and more poignant than you are. He embodies, in fact, all the wonderful human qualities that drunks fondly, mistakenly believe the booze brings out in them.
80
A rich man, perpetually tiddly from drink, gets incompetent self into various muddles; unflappable gentleman's gentleman gets him out. It has always been an excellent joke, and Writer-Director Gordon has added a dash of sentiment to their relationship, trusting Sir John's expertise to keep things taut and tart, which he does admirably.
80
Washington Post
Arthur is one of those rare contemporary entertainments that can be used to contradict people who habitually complain, "They don't make 'em like they used to!" This time they have. [17 July 1981, p.B1]
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Arthur constantly flirts with the trite and dallies with the excessive. But it goes steady with neither, and so makes for a very pleasant companion on a warm summer eve. [17 July 1981]
