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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396229372
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 27661
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1939
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Product Description:
Adapted from Clifford Odets famous play THE GOLDEN BOY marked William Holden's first major film appearance. Holden stars as a promising violin player who ruins his career by moonlighting as a prize-fighter. Barbara Stanwyck co-stars as the woman who tries to convince him to give up his musical ambitions.System Requirements:Run Time: 99 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 043396229372
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Barbara Stanwyck purists--and who isn't one?--are in for a treat with Golden Boy, a little-seen but true gem of a hard-knocks romance. The film's pedigree is aces: Based on a play by Clifford Odets, directed by the great Rouben Mamoulian, and starring not only Stanwyck but Adolphe Menjou, Lee J. Cobb, and a fresh-faced William Holden, in his breakout screen role. The film crackles with 1939 pre-noir atmosphere, with the New Yawk guys and dames spinning slang out of the sides of their mouths.
Stanwyck sparkles as Lorna Moon, a gruff gal running around with the married Tom Moody (Menjou), a boxing promoter looking for the Next Big Thing. In walks the dreamy young Joe Bonaparte (Holden), part violin prodigy, part boxing phenom--though he doesn't look the pugilist part at first. "He's got curls, too!" sneers the scornful Moody. But Joe makes a believer out of him--and of the slinky Lorna. When fists start flying, so do the sparks. Some of the dialogue is dated (not to mention the young wife who likes being smacked around), but the snapshot of the era is spot-on, and Stanwyck, as always, steers the film to a higher ground.
Extras include a Ford Theatre TV episode, "Sudden Silence" from the mid-'50s; a cartoon, "The Kangaroo Kid"; a crazy comedy short called "Pleased to Mitt You" starring Stooge Shemp Howard (!); and other great vintage tidbits. Get ready to go 15 rounds with Golden Boy. --A.T. Hurley
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Rating:  -
Stanwyck did approx 35 films during the 1930's, and many of the them are with Columbia, as she was shared with them and Warner Brothers. Sony, PLEASE get busy putting these films out on dvd, her fans deserve it and many other stars of the same period get much better treatment than she. I hope Amazon can pass the word onto the studios that not everyone wants to see the absolute dreck that is coming out of the studios today.
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This is a great movie made in a banner year for movies. 1939. Golden Boy introduced William Holden to millions of fans. It was Barbara Stanwyck who stood by him and convinced the producers to keep him in the movie. The results are evident. Holden plays the confused young man torn between his love of music and love for boxing, not to mention his love for the tough and complicated Stanwyck. The dialogue is good and the portrayal of an Italian -American family of the time and the father-son struggle ... Read More
Rating:  -
Some films age badly, but Golden Boy practically decomposes before your eyes. Not the print, which is crisp and beautiful as new in Columbia's recent DVD, but in plot and dialogue it's beyond prehistoric. A-list production values it may have, but boy, is it bad.
Clifford Odets may have fashioned himself as a champion of the working man, but his patronising portrayal of violinist-boxer William Holden's immigrant family makes a Chico Marx routine look like Arthur Miller by comparison. ... Read More
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At last Sony have issued this title on DVD and the wait is worth it. I like pictures with boxing ring fights and this is a good one. The performances of Barbara Stanwyck, Wm Holden & Adolphe Menjou are excellent. So-called HD mastering is listed on the slick and this is a superb production both in picture & sound. Many Columbia features and serials from this period, generally, suffer from poor elements, much of which had been shipped to the Library of Congress long ago. Sound elements have been lost ... Read More
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The movie is excellent, but I have a problem with the cover because to me, it just don't look like Holden. One of the best parts of this film is when a man asked Stanwyck while sitting on top of a desk who she was, and she said, "my mother's daughter" I thought that was class and I never forgot it even after all these years. The story of a young man who has a gift of being a violinist and a boxer and the conflict and struggles to find out which one better suits him has long been an interesting film for ... Read More
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