I've always loved this movie since the first time I watched it some years ago. The acting is great and Kind Vidor's direction is really wonderful. I would like to have the DvD of this movie. Does anyone know if a DvD release is planned for this movie? Thanks.
shareI'd go for that! Saw it on TCM channel today, and fell in love with it all over again. I'd hope that MGM will get to it soon, as it digs deeper and deeper into its vaults for DVD material. As I recall, it did get a VHS release at one time, but had fallen out of print a while before the advent of DVDs. Incidentally, the print on TV was in great shape, reinforcing the essential timelessness of the story.
sharei have no idea as to when it will be out, but yeah i loved this movie, cos i guess i could kind of relate to the charachter in a sense, btu still, and awesome movie .. it suck as a remake .. i hope they dont pull that stunt.
shareIt took years for TCM even release this movie, cause of an estate legal problem. I guess King Vidor's. My disappointment briefly was Robert Young. Not that he gave a bad performance, in fact, i think it was his best, mature performance of his career. But as a movie, it needed a well established male star..ie Cary Cooper or James Stewart, who for whatever reason, were told that they turned it down. The big wonderful surprise was Hedy's performance...Judging by today's oscar awards for best actress's, she would have at least been nominated, if not win...as compared to ....whats her name...oh yes, Helen Hunt's performance in a movie that i forgot the title.
shareAre you referring to AS GOOD AS IT GETS???? How could anyone forget that movie and Helen Hunt's performance in it. The way she worked her facial muscles in certain scenes so that you could practically read her thoughts. And the contrast between her and Nicholson in that. In my mind, that was one of the most deserving lead actress awards I've seen given out, and a relief to see that the TITANIC actress didn't get it.
Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies
Two things (since I realize this post is a couple of years old):
This movie is available on DVD from warnerarchive.com but be warned, there are no frills.
Regarding the casting of Robert Young, in Leonard Maltin's 2008 book, "Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy" there is a long interview he had with Mr. Young 1986. In this interview Mr. Young says (about being chosen by King Vidor):
" What I was told was that he stood against the entire studio. It was his choice that I play the role. And everybody got in the act. Those that had some say all lined up, literally, and said no. And he said, "Well, then, I won't do it." They didn't want to say too many derogatory things about me, but they said, "You can get this one, you can get that one..."
[Mrs. Young: "They kept saying you were too young, you looked too young."]
"Anything they could think of that would somehow diminish my attractiveness to King. King had his mind made up. I don't know why he did it, to tell you the truth. I was baffled when I told about it. I said, "Oh, you're just telling me that to make me feel good." [And someone said}"Go ask King if you don't believe me." So I finally went to King and I said, " I've been told that you put a pretty good fight for me to play the role," and he said, "That's right." I said, "Did you ever have any regrets?" He said, "Not once." I said, "What do you think about the end result?" He said, "Just exactly the way I thought it would be." Well,it was nice to hear."
It would appear that the film satisfied its director and it was a fine, mature role for Robert Young who was around 34 years old when it was released.