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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0829567019825
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
MPN: HSPD01982D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 09, 2005
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1973
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on famed writer dylan thomas masterpiece. A magical & hilarious story of a spring day in a small welsh coastal village. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 02/26/2008 Starring: Richard Burton Peter Otoole Run time: 88 minutes
Amazon.com:
Under Milk Wood is an imaginative, cinematic rendering of Dylan Thomas's famous "play for voices," typically read on stage by a handful of actors expressing the dialogue of more than 50 characters living in a small, Welsh fishing village. Filmmaker Andrew Sinclair sets the story in a real seaside community and visually complements the text's lengthy, opening narration by enlisting Richard Burton both for his brooding voiceover and a mysterious, on-screen role as a drunken gadabout soaking in the very soul of the town Thomas' words describe. Once the narration ends, the film breathes freely with a succession of lively vignettes, some funny, some dramatic, but all rooted in the peculiar circumstances of characters who either feel trapped by or ensconced in their home. Peter O'Toole plays the wizened, blind Captain Cat, haunted by memories of drowned sailors but so attuned to the sounds of village life outside his window he can identify the children screaming in a park. Elizabeth Taylor (Burton's wife at the time) makes a brief appearance as Rosie Probert, and the other players include Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, and Victor Spinetti. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter O'Toole bring Dylan Thomas's lyrical masterpiece to life. The lilting and hilarious verse roles from the actors like wonderful music. Even one who did not understand English would appreciate the musical joy of the recording.
The performance captures the hilarity and the pathos of Thomas's portrait of human life and love.
This is a near definitive version of the play and should be part of the collection of any lover of Dylan Thomas's ... Read More
Rating:  -
Cast and production are fine given the material which still doesnt stand up in time to the medium of film.
Having portrayed parts in same production for stage it played much better even though the dialouge for a just trained actor caused me much greif until finally by performance night it took-off and an extended season ensued. A Successful financial-run in 95'@www.darlinghursttheatre.com I feel based on the originalmaterial that was somewhat edited down was far superior albeit in theater form ... Read More
Rating: -
This adaptation itself is a pretty soggy affair. Ploddingly literal more often than not, giving you an image that matches exactly what the text is describing, though the occasional bad idea from director Andrew Sinclair makes you wish he'd stuck to ploddingly literal. The design of the film's a mess, as well; the villagers seem to wear fashions from 1918 or so through the 60's, with the latter hideous beyond belief. As in the equally misguided Burton/Taylor FAUSTUS, La Liz doesn't bother with period hair, ... Read More
Rating: -
One day in a small village along the coast of Wales, a fishing harbour that is surviving in coming modernity that is going to destroy it and later on transform it. The film enables the director to create a real world extracted from Dylan Thomas's words, and the general description of the historical heritage of the village can be uttered by some guide on a bus half full of old ladies touristing around the country and the conclusion is the village can get levelled down no one would protest. That was a long time ... Read More
Rating: -
I am supposed to have received a credit on this item which I returned about 4 weeks ago.
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