Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303905310 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6303905315 Label: Hollywood Select Video Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hollywood Select Video Release Date: October 26, 1995 Running Time: 77 minutes Sales Rank: 72145 Studio: Hollywood Select Video Theatrical Release Date: December 03, 1936
Rating: - Early gothic/noir sets the standard for future films.
Despite having read the liner notes, I thought from the publicity artwork that WINTERSET would be something gothic. It is gothic, in its bleakness, but is squarely centered in the Depression era of the United States. It was completely of it's time, and considering that the film was adapted from the Broadway play, it must have been daring, with sub themes of socialism and police corruption. (The play was by Maxwell Anderson, who wrote KEY LARGO and THE BAD SEED.) Perhaps that contributed to the film receiving two Academy Award nominations.
This is the story of Mio (Bartholomio - a young, dewy Burgess Merideth) trying to clear his father's name. In the first scenes, his namesake Father, played with riveting stillness by the painfully thin John Carradine, was accused of murder he did not commit, given no defense, and put to death. Years later, his son goes to the slums of New York to try to find ... Read More
Rating: - Winterset
Maxwell Anderson's WINTERSET was a popular and critically acclaimed stage play in 1935. In fact, it won the first New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. In 1936 it was made into a movie featuring the young stage actor who'd played the part on Broadway - and for whom Anderson wrote the part - Burgess Meredith. Internet sources have it that the movie was a box office dud. That the film was allowed to enter into the public domain and has been issued by Alpha/Gotham Distributing, a company that specializes in orphaned p.d. titles at a discount price, probably tells us all we need to know about WINTERSET, the movie.
Or maybe not. Drawing inspiration from the (then) current Sacco-Vanzetti murder case while employing both a social conscious approach and a mixture of high-toned verse and street slang, Anderson's play is about a young man's, Mio Romagna, search for the men responsible for the trial, conviction, ... Read More
Rating: - Tight melodrama of betrayal and revenge.
Maxwell Anderson's classic play is reduced to a 77 minute playing time but is one of the tightest, tensest films to come out of the early talkie period. Acting ranges from excellent to outstanding (Meredith recreates his stage role). Although the film earned Oscar noms for Art Direction and Score - deserved, it excels most in black and white cinematography and editing. An excellent little film and one of the best of the early talkie era - it bespeaks eloquently of what was yet to come in film noir.
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- Early gothic/noir sets the standard for future films.
- Tight melodrama of betrayal and revenge.
