Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569528826 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 20, 2006 Running Time: 115 minutes Sales Rank: 16679 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1936
Product Description: Romantic drama combines with humor starpower combines with lavish spectacle and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award winning* extravanganza's street-splitting brick-cascading fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains 'one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs' (Adrian Turner Time Out Film Guide). Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar nominations* Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie Mother Nature will.Running Time: 115 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 115 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â DRAMA UPC:Â 012569528826 Manufacturer No:Â 65288
Amazon.com: 'San Francisco, open your Golden Gate....' If the classic city anthem isn't part of your life already, it will be after a viewing of this 1936 hit, a wonderful blend of cornpone, spectacle, and song. It's set in 1906, the year the earthquake flattened much of Baghdad by the Bay. Like the disaster movies that followed (including In Old Chicago, a Fox cash-in from a couple of years later), San Francisco slowly establishes its characters before unleashing the destruction. Clark Gable is Blackie Norton, a cocky and ruthless Barbary Coast character whose heart is--well, not softened, but at least dented by the arrival of an opera singer (Jeanette MacDonald) looking for a job. He hires her for his rowdy club, while his childhood chum, Father Tim Mullin (Spencer Tracy), disapproves. As they would subsequently demonstrate in Test Pilot and Boom Town, Gable and Tracy have great he-man rapport together (Blackie's rampant maleness is challenged only by the fact that he knows the priest could punch him out). Director W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man) keeps everything cracking along, except for those moments when Cultcha rears its head and MacDonald sings an aria. When the quake hits, and the fire follows, the movie uncorks some really quite awesome special effects, including the unforgettable image of a street heaving up and separating under people's feet--much superior to the disaster effects in The Last Days of Pompeii, made just a year earlier. Needless to say, this could only be MGM in its heyday, laying on the big budget, an acceptable level of naughtiness, and a dose of religious turnaround in the end. It worked then; it still does. --Robert Horton
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Rating: - beauty(MacDonald) and the beast(Gable)
This film is a blend of a romantic musical, a disaster movie and an old fashioned morality play. In some respects it is a replay of "The Dancing Lady",in which a talented Joan Crawford is rescued from her downtown burlesque dancing job to become the featured dancer in Gable's uptown musical extravaganza. In the present film, MacDonald, as Mary Blake, undergoes a similar transformation from singer in Gable's(Blackie) Barbary Coast night spot to an opera house owned and frequented by the Knob Hill elite. However, she feels obligated to sometimes return to Blackie's Paradise club, to perform there. In this film, it's Gable's character who is pursuing a reluctant MacDonald, whereas in "The Dancing Lady", it was Crawford's character who was pursuing a hard-to-get Gable.
With her striking operatic voice, newly arrived Mary clearly is miscast in Blackie's seedy nightclub. But, he selfishly tries to block her ... Read More
Rating: - Present for Mom
Bought this for mom's b-day. She loves this movie and was very happy to get it. Came quickly with no problems.
Rating: - Need To Be A Big Fan
I recognise that this is an important film but I think you have to be a big fan of Gables to really enjoy it.
Rating: - well played
I love Jeanette McDonald and I like the story line of good girl vs bad boy who with the support of a priest turn the bad boy into a good boy - although he was really a good boy all along he just didn't have the proper morals. I like what it stood for and then the build the story around the great earthquake that took place in San Fran. Great special effects for that time period. I love the cast and the music.
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