The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Blu ray
Kino Lorber Home Video
1938 / 1.33:1 / Street Date July 10, 2018
Starring Tommy Kelly, May Robson, Marcia Mae Jones
Cinematography by James Wong Howe
Directed by Norman Taurog
Though Hemingway suggested “all modern American literature” comes from Huckleberry Finn, a case could be made for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as the great American campfire tale.
David Selznick’s picaresque film version of Mark Twain’s bucolic farce plays out through the producer’s rose-colored glasses – an elegy to “the beautiful past, the dear and lamented past.” The brisk adaptation by screenwriter John Weaver (only 91 minutes) is a laundry list of Tom’s greatest hits – his graveyard vigil with Huck Finn, the pirate escapade, the hair-raising cavern finale – all are adventures ingrained in the collective unconscious of most sentient human beings – even those who never cracked a book.
Directed by Norman Taurog, a man who specialized...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber Home Video
1938 / 1.33:1 / Street Date July 10, 2018
Starring Tommy Kelly, May Robson, Marcia Mae Jones
Cinematography by James Wong Howe
Directed by Norman Taurog
Though Hemingway suggested “all modern American literature” comes from Huckleberry Finn, a case could be made for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as the great American campfire tale.
David Selznick’s picaresque film version of Mark Twain’s bucolic farce plays out through the producer’s rose-colored glasses – an elegy to “the beautiful past, the dear and lamented past.” The brisk adaptation by screenwriter John Weaver (only 91 minutes) is a laundry list of Tom’s greatest hits – his graveyard vigil with Huck Finn, the pirate escapade, the hair-raising cavern finale – all are adventures ingrained in the collective unconscious of most sentient human beings – even those who never cracked a book.
Directed by Norman Taurog, a man who specialized...
- 7/28/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
<em>On May 6, 1933, Paramount unveiled the antiwar drama The Eagle and the Hawk </em><em>in theaters</em><em>, starring Fredric March, Cary Grant and Carole Lombard. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below. </em>
Destined to take its place with <em>All Quiet on the Western Front </em>in the archives of screen achievements in depicting the unabridged horrors of war, <em>The Eagle and the Hawk</em> admirably fulfills its purpose.
It attacks its subject with praiseworthy vigor and directness. It leaves utterly nothing to the imagination. Blood and gore being the reason for its central character's revolt against the system of senseless slaughter, it ...
Destined to take its place with <em>All Quiet on the Western Front </em>in the archives of screen achievements in depicting the unabridged horrors of war, <em>The Eagle and the Hawk</em> admirably fulfills its purpose.
It attacks its subject with praiseworthy vigor and directness. It leaves utterly nothing to the imagination. Blood and gore being the reason for its central character's revolt against the system of senseless slaughter, it ...
On May 6, 1933, Paramount unveiled the antiwar drama The Eagle and the Hawk in theaters, starring Fredric March, Cary Grant and Carole Lombard. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
Destined to take its place with All Quiet on the Western Front in the archives of screen achievements in depicting the unabridged horrors of war, The Eagle and the Hawk admirably fulfills its purpose.
It attacks its subject with praiseworthy vigor and directness. It leaves utterly nothing to the imagination. Blood and gore being the reason for its central character's revolt against the system of senseless slaughter, it gives us...
Destined to take its place with All Quiet on the Western Front in the archives of screen achievements in depicting the unabridged horrors of war, The Eagle and the Hawk admirably fulfills its purpose.
It attacks its subject with praiseworthy vigor and directness. It leaves utterly nothing to the imagination. Blood and gore being the reason for its central character's revolt against the system of senseless slaughter, it gives us...
- 3/9/2018
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As happens every year around this time, the cable spectrum has been heavily laced with programming throughout the week commemorating Veterans Day. HBO trundled out its full epic and brutal miniseries The Pacific for a one-day re-run broken up by the debut of the James Gandolfini-hosted documentary War Torn 1861-2010, a disturbing look at the psychological scars America’s soldiers have suffered in every conflict since The Civil War; The History Channel ran an all-day marathon of Ww II in HD, sprinkling its commercial breaks for the week with commemorative spots; AMC ran a day of war movies like The Enemy Below (1957) and A Few Good Men (1992) under the umbrella, “Vets Best” ; and so on.
The bulk of memorializing programming focused on World War II – unsurprising, in that it remains, to this day, America’s greatest, defining, and least morally problematic war. Even 65 years later, despite a half-century of...
The bulk of memorializing programming focused on World War II – unsurprising, in that it remains, to this day, America’s greatest, defining, and least morally problematic war. Even 65 years later, despite a half-century of...
- 11/11/2010
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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