Movie
1981
Arthur is a 1981 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Steve Gordon. It stars Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach, a drunken New York City millionaire who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to wealthy heiress Susan Johnson but ends up falling for Linda Marolla, a common working-class young woman from Queens. It was the sole film directed by Gordon, who died in 1982 of a heart attack at age 44.
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Class struggle is often used as a plot ingredient of romantic comedies, but seldom in such an explicit way as in *Arthur*, 1981 film written and directed by Stewart Gordon. Protagonist, played by Dudley Moore, is Arthur Bach, heir to one of New York’s richest families, who spends all of his life trying to spend parents’ money, usually on alcohol. With Arthur approaching the age of thirty, his father Stanford (played…More
