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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781419812729
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 1419812726
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D70807D
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Running Time: 553 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 1940
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Critic Pauline Kael called this shamelessly enjoyable, vintage Bette Davis weepie a "kitsch classic," and time hasn't diminished its ability to give the tear ducts a good flushing. Davis plays a swinging socialite, living the fast life of booze, smokes, and--with the help of Humphrey Bogart as her Irish stableman--raising thoroughbred horses. When a brain tumor starts giving her headaches and eroding her vision, she falls in love with her surgeon (George Brent), who grows more determined than ever to cure her. Davis gives one of her most vibrant performances, and her costars also include Ronald Reagan and Geraldine Fitzgerald. The film received Oscar nominations for best picture, best actress, and for Max Steiner's score. --Jim Emerson
Amazon.com:
Even in the 21st century, very few film stars create and define their own genre--and certainly not in the complete way Bette Davis did. The Bette Davis Collection gives an exceptionally good survey of essential Bette, with four of the five films absolute knock-down classics from her long reign at Warner Bros. Davis's personality was so strong that she tended to overpower her directors, but William Wyler was one of the few to maintain his own distinctive style with her, and The Letter (1940) is a triumph for both of them. At a humid Malaysian plantation, Davis kills a man in the brilliant opening sequence, and the remainder is a darkly suggestive unraveling of the complicated explanation.
Dark Victory (1939) and Now, Voyager (1942) would be on anybody's list of most representative Davis pictures. In the former, she's a doomed heiress nobly losing her eyesight, a multiple-handkerchief situation that proved one of her biggest hits. Voyager allows Davis one of her favored techniques (appearing frumpy for at least part of her performance) as a mother-dominated spinster who comes out of her shell. Her match with Paul Henreid--and the music of Max Steiner--turns this into one luscious melodrama.
If Mr. Skeffington (1944) is not as celebrated as those films, it is nevertheless a characteristic Warners work-out. Davis wasn't shy about playing unsympathetic roles, and Fanny Skeffington--vain, selfish, married for practicality--is an exasperating tour de force. She gets good support from Claude Rains as the sensible, adoring husband. The Star (1952) is no classic, but its Pirandellian aspects will appeal to the actress's fans: Bette plays a washed-up Oscar-winning star desperate to get herself back in the public eye (think if it as a less witty postscript to All About Eve). There's some hint the main character is modeled more on Joan Crawford than Bette herself, in which case Davis must have loved playing it.
Extras are modest, with short featurettes giving background on three of the discs, and director Vincent Sherman providing commentary for Mr. Skeffington. But the films themselves, and their neurotically intense star, are quite capable of standing alone. --Robert Horton
Description:
The Bette Davis Collection includes 3 new-to-DVD classics, featuring Davis in multiple Emmy-nominated performances as a captivating adulteress, a manipulative beauty, and a former Oscar-winning actress recovering from the end of her career.
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Loved it!! Excellent movie with lots of great actors. Loved Betty Davis Performance!! Millie
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Bette Davis almost always fabulous is great here too. I love Dark Victory & Now Voyager the way I love Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce. Old Movie buffs this is one for you!Dark Victory (Restored and Remastered Edition)
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The transfer is crisp and clean overall and the special features (which I usually don't bother with)are fun and interesting. Bette's heyday in the 30's and 40's in which she did her best work in my opinion (She was called "The 5th Warner Brother" and was the undisputed Queen of The Lot. Here, she's at once,willful,high-strung,and at the last,heroic. But what she is here is watchable and it should be no surprise to someone unfamiliar with her work (if such a one exists!) ... Read More
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Bette Davis, recently fresh from her Academy Award winning performance in William Wyler's "Jezebel," gives another Oscar-worthy performance in this searing drama, which reunites her with "Jezebel" co-star George Brent. Excellent film. Highly recommended.
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I'm watching this for the first time and I know it is a well-deserved classic film. Kitsch-fest according to Pauline Kael, I think it is actually the best pre-war propaganda film ever made. What subliminal stuff! It's released in 1939. Staged among the smart set on Long Island, in the usual way those enviable plutocrats were put before a Depression-ravaged public so that they could live vicariously in great houses and nightclubs while sitting in the darkened theatre. But here (and perhaps this is ... Read More
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