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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0012569673069
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD67306D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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Amazon.com:
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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Rating:  -
I love this movie, and after a friend lost our copy, I wanted to replace it right away. The movie arrived quickly & was exactly as the description noted.
Rating:  -
This movie is closely related to 'Fashions of 1934" as in both instances Davis plays a subordinate role of a assistant/secretary that falls in love and leaves her career for the man she loves.
Here as as Maggie Cutler she is both more believable and witty, bouncing off the acid machine gun remarks of Monty Woolley playing a talented, egocentric writer (Sheridan Whiteside) that is trapped in an Ohio home due to an accident.
The story is not at all believalble, but that was standard ... Read More
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..My disappointment is solely with the audio content of the DVD...a bit fuzzy/grainy sounding. I'll live with it ..key point of reference, disclose that up front, if you tout an item in "very good" condition, audio is an essential component!
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Monty Wolley does a great job here in being an annoying character (his job in this film), but somehow with all the talent around him it ends up being a perfectly entertaining way to spend time with a movie. It's a must Christmas viewing every year - and sometimes inbetween!
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The Man Who Came to Dinner is a welcome video guest to any Christmas season and any DVD collection even if Monty Wolley's character would not be welcome in your home. Great fun to watch and to try and fugure out all the dated cultural references. Good ensemble performacnces from all involved and Bette Davis does a terrific job at modulating her acting style so as not to produce the DIVA persona that normally dominates the cast members in all of her other pictures.
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