I’ll add my name to the long list of those asking for SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE to be released on DVD. It was made for a company called Cinema Center Films, one of a number of small independent firms that sprang up following the collapse of the Production Code in 1968. They shut their doors in 1972 having released 30 films including such well known titles as LITTLE BIG MAN, LE MANS, BOYS IN THE BAND, RIO LOBO, and A MAN CALLED HORSE.
Paramount now owns the rights to SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE and while they have recently released a number of their titles to Criterion, this isn’t one of them. They have also released some of their lesser known movies to a new company called Olive Films which would be the ideal outfit for SOMETHING as they do quality work (check out their website) and are more affordable. It would be really nice if SOMETHING could get released while Angela Lansbury and Michael York are still alive and can talk about it. What a great special feature that would make.
The story is designed as a modern day fairy tale of the darkest kind with Michael York as a young opportunist who will do anything, and I do mean anything, to live in a fairy tale castle like the one in his childhood storybook. He attaches himself to a Bavarian aristocratic family who have seen better days and then plays everyone off to his advantage. Like the classic British comedy KIND HEARTS & CORONETS which it vaguely resembles, there is a nice twist at the end.
The casting couldn’t be better. In addition to York in what I think is his best role, there’s Angela Lansbury in her prime, Anthony Higgins/Corlan, of YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES fame, scores in the role of the gay son and Jane Carr, fresh from THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, is perfection as the daughter. Beautifully shot, well written, and astutely directed by Harold Prince, SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE deserves to be seen by many more people and only a DVD or download availability will allow that to happen…..POSTSCRIPT: Kino released SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2016
The Capsule Critic 