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Staring:
Claudette Colbert,
Jennifer Jones,
Joseph Cotten,
Shirley Temple,
Monty Woolley
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $6.91
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780792862185
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 079286218X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-10-19
Running Time: 172
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-07-20 |
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Description
Nominated* for nine Academy AwardsÂ(r), this heart-warming, soul-stirring (Variety) portrait of life on the homefront during World War II is a magnificent picture rich in humor and poignant with heartbreak (The Hollywood Reporter). Claudette Colbert heads an all-star cast,including Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten and Shirley Temple, in this beautifully produced picture that gets into your heart (Los Angeles Examiner). With her husband Tim off at war, Anne Hilton (Colbert) struggles to be a pillar of strength for her daughters Jane (Jones) and Bridget (Temple). During America's darkest hours, she bravely steers her girls through heartbreak and hardships as she eagerly awaits news from overseas and wonders if life will ever be the same. *1944: Best Picture, Actress (Colbert), Supporting Actor (Monty Woolley), Supporting Actress (Jones), Cinematography (B&W), Art Direction (B&W), Editing, Music Score (won), Special Effects
Amazon.com
A three-hour weepy extraordinaire, this 1944 offering from producer David O. Selznick (who also wrote the screenplay) was a tribute to all the families who stayed behind while their men went off to fight in World War II. Claudette Colbert is the mother of daughters Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple; first seen coming home after dropping her war-bound husband at the train, she becomes the model of courage and strength on the homefront. The plot has a Saturday Evening Post feel today, as it follows the family's day-to-day life and struggles, whether with a crotchety boarder (a delightfully starchy Monty Woolley) or oldest daughter Jones's doomed romance with departing serviceman Robert Walker. They don't make them like this anymore and it's too bad. Nominated for a fistful of Oscars, it took only one, for its shadow-drenched black-and-white cinematography. --Marshall Fine
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 Clueless, 2010-03-19
This propaganda vehicle penned by the producer David Selznick works over a collection of tired "situations" to spin out its feature length without touching base with anything genuine along the way. Even the marvellous Claudette Colbert is dragged down to what seems like a limp recitation as a result of the ponderous storyline and sometimes excruciatingly bad dialogue. A scene about a third the way into the film is representative of the strange aimlessness of the whole production. Colbert's character and an old admirer (overplayed by Joseph Cotton) are attending a USO dance when they are informed that a young flyer she knows, and with whom they had been chatting minutes before, has just been killed in a plane crash. The lad's death dulls their enjoyment of the evening for a minute or two... before they are back on the dance floor and he's making a pass at her. Nothing about this film recommends it to posterity.
Old Movies, 2009-11-11
Most everything i order is for the wife so once again a winner with the wife!
Wonderful movie,very good condition,and so nice to get back to the past now and then!(so she says)
A movie any age could watch which is rare these days,so i guess you could say this one gets a gold star!
Movie good but Supplier horrible, 2010-06-28
The Movie is a great classic. Good Hattie MacDaniel.
However, Movie Mars from whom I purchase the DVD from, is LOUSY. Not only was the DVD damaged but it has been a month and I still don't have a replacement copy.
Perfect, 2010-08-03
I watched this movie once with my Grandmother and never forgot it. I love Claudette Colbert, but the story it tells is wonderfull. A woman who's husband is away in the militery during World War II. and she's left to carry on with her two daughters. Only it wasnt so easy to do. They face financiel troubles, and romance. There's a few life lessons mixed in. You wont be sorry, I wasnt.
It never ceases!, 2009-10-28
A beautiful melodrama. A stellar cast.
Yes it is from a past genre of film makers But as long as there is war this film will endure
The story remains the same old or new
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