Sylvia Scarlett dvd movie.|
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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 03 January, 1936 DVD Release : 29 May, 2007 |
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| Sylvia Scarlett starts with the death of a mother and a father (Edmund Gwenn) whose debt will leave him in jail. He plans to leave his daugther Syliva (Katharine Hepburn) behind, but she insists on keeping the family together and cuts her hair so she can disguise herself as a boy named Sylvester. It is this way that the duo leaves and stumbles upon a con artist (Cary Grant) who joins with them to make money. Sylvia's conscience gets the best of her and she refuses to go along with the con any longer, so along with her new stepmother (Bunny Beatty), her father, and the con artist, they form a traveling acting troupe. In one town, she meets a man she falls in love with (Brian Aherne) even though he thinks she's a boy and even though he's involved with a glamourous blonde.
As interesting as the story seems, it really drags for the most part. Sometimes the characters are fun, but for the most part, we don't get to know any of them well enough to care. Also, it is strange to see Hepburn dressed a woman, and she's oddly perfect as a boy. Perhaps the film makers knew this, because toward the end of the film when everyone knows she's a girl, they find a way to get her dressed as a boy again. |
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