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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $8.99 You Save: $10.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 1933 DVD Release : 06 September, 2005 |
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Grand Hotel (Keepcase) description This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is a sweeping soap opera about the guests at the Grand Hotel. Several plots intertwine, but mostly it's about Stars! Stars! Stars! Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and both Barrymore brothers head up the cast. Garbo is luminous as Grusinskaya, the neurotic and famous-but-slipping dancer and, yes, she ... review details |
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| Grand Hotel was a pretty revolutionary concept in 1932. A film of seemingly unrelated multiple plotlines in which all or most of the main characters are played by established movie stars is nothing new to today's audience, but in 1932 it was groundbreaking and resulted in critical and commercial success, as well as an Academy Award for Best Picture - the only category it was nominated in.
The film is not just pushed by the sheer star power of its cast, possibly the greatest ever assembled on film, but the grand soap opera plot of love, deceit, sex, and murder makes it a classic with great rewatachability. Warner Bros. has assembled a nice DVD edition of the film. The transfer has very little in the way of digital artifacting, but the source quality is not as clean and pristine as that of many films Warner Bros. has put onto DVD. There's minor warping at one point in the film, and the print is a bit grainier than one would desire. However, this is still quite possibly the best the film has ever looked or sounded, so I have no major complaints. The DVD boasts a nice selection of bonus materials. A short 10-minute making-of documentary never really goes too in-depth, but still provides a nice glimpse of the making of the film. There's trailers for Grand Hotel and its remake, Weekend At The Waldorf, plus the short film Nothing Ever Happens, which was a parody of Grand Hotel. But the nicest bonus is the premiere footage. There's also a theater announcement for the film at Grauman's Chinese Theater. To sum everything up, this DVD edition of Grand Hotel is about as good as it gets. I recommend this film for fans of classic cinema and fans of the cast. The print quality leaves a bit to be desired, but it still looks pretty good and a nice handful of bonus materials provide great entertainment value as well. |
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