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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 01 January, 1942 DVD Release : 30 May, 2006 |
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The Man Who Came to Dinner description A legendary Broadway tour de force comes to the screen with Monty Woolley's central performance in The Man Who Came to Dinner. And it's a turn well worth immortalizing. All goatish beard, snapping teeth, and plummy-voiced put-downs, Woolley fully inhabits the role of Sheridan Whiteside, a celebrated author and radio celebrity who gets waylaid by a cracked hip during a visit to small-town Ohio. Bossing the helpless homeowners and bewildered staff from his wheelchair, he quickly fills his hosts' house with his projects (including four penguins) and famous visitors (Ann Sheridan as a self-centered diva, Jimmy Durante as a comedian based on Harpo Marx). Bette Davis goes for a quieter role than usual as Whiteside's assistant; she falls for a local newspaperman, drippily played by Richard Travis. They all revolve around the seated figure of Woolley, his hands drumming on his armrests, his teeth bared as though ready to devour his inferiors. He's delicious. The script is larded with topical references and Broadway-style repartee, not all of which has aged well, and director William Keighley doesn't have a clear grasp of how to shoot jokes. But the basic situation is so durable, and Whiteside's character (based on famed Algonquin Round Table wit Alexander Woollcott) so unusual and nasty, that the movie remains great fun. --Robert Horton |
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| I've been waiting years to write this review. I'm sick and tired of watching "Miracle on 34th Street" and "It's a Wonderful Life' during the Christmas holidays and hardly ever seeing this outrageously funny holiday classic even listed or mentioned. Just check out the ratings;90% of the reviewers give it 5 stars! And why not? Woolley takes over someone else's house and proceeds to 'hold court" following a fall which he milks to the brim.As Sheridan Whiteside, Woolley's a big shot and he knows it.He's on a first name basis with Eleanor Roosevelt, constantly interferes with family matters, and entertains everyone from Ann Sheridan to Jimmy Durante. Gifts include an octopus and an empty? mummy's casket. Bette Davis is apparently the lone sane figure, and Whiteside is determined to rule her as his secretary for life until... In short, it's the best holiday movie ever made. See for yourself! | |
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