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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Original recording remastered • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 21 March, 1962 DVD Release : 02 May, 2006 |
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Sweet Bird of Youth description Sweet Bird of Youth has the Tennessee Williams penchant for provocation and Southern depravity--although at this point, the bloom is somewhat off the hothouse flower. Paul Newman is a cad who dreams of glory; he's returned to his hometown towing a dissolute, over-the-hill Hollywood star (Geraldine Page re-creates her Broadway role), certain she'll be his meal ticket. He's ruined the only girl he really loved (day-dreamy Shirley Knight), who just happens to be the daughter of the town's boss (Ed Begley, in an Oscar®-winning role). The play's more shocking elements have been euphemized, in the custom of the era's Williams movie adaptations. Director Richard Brooks handles it with intensity, and Rip Torn (who was married to Page) has some wicked moments, but the movie is bound to its theatrical roots and its inability to mention racism, syphilis, or castration. And that's Tennessee Williams without the hot sauce. --Robert Horton |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | What a treat! |
| Watching the young and electrifying Paul Newman and the mesmerizing Geraldine Page in this adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play is a real treat. It's a pity they had to change the ending of the original play (among other things) to be "safer" for Hollywood standards in the 60's. Still it's a great story and we keep wanting more and more and more of Newman and Page together.
The short documentary on the film is also nice, with Shirley Knight, Rip Torn and Madeleine Sherwood sharing memories from the film set. The widescreen transfer is fine even if the image is not as clear as it should be. |
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