Show Boat (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
HEAR Glorious New Music and Songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II:
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 31, 2020
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson & Helen Morgan | |
Performer: | Hattie McDaniel, Charles Winninger, Marilyn Knowlden, Arthur Hohl, Sammy White & Charles Middleton | |
Directed by | James Whale | |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent & Bernard W. Burton | |
Music by | Jerome Kern | |
Screenplay by | Oscar Hammerstein | |
Lyricist: | Oscar Hammerstein | |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | John J. Mescall |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Best version is this truly classic version; superior musical on all counts
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 5/5 --
Hands down the best version of the stage show. Brilliantly conceived and executed by James Whale.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Thanks to Director James Whale, all these talented people move quite naturally within the story, and don't give you the feeling that they are merely specialty performers waiting to jump into their acts.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
Represents the apex of Hollywood musical productions.
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IdentityTheory
...This is the best of three screen versions...
USA Today
Rating: A --
The great booming voice of Paul Robeson singing "Ol' Man River" throughout is as good a number as was ever done in a musical.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
[The director] recognizes he's making a film, not just a record of a stage production. The strong source material doesn't hurt [...] and neither do the [...] performances of actors who know their characters inside and out.
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The Dissolve
Product Description:
James Whale's adaptation of the Edna Ferber book/Kern-Hammerstein musical is considered the best of the three screen versions exploring the intertwining lives of a Mississippi showboat troupe. After leading couple Julie (Helen Morgan) and Steve (Donald Cook) are fired because of racism, the captain's daughter, Magnolia (Irene Dunne), gets her long-awaited chance to perform. When handsome drifter Gaylord Ravenal (Allan Jones) is cast opposite her, the two begin a roller-coaster ride of love and loss. Boasting lovely performances of songs like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man," SHOW BOAT is a touching, tragic classic.
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- Sales Rank: 74,268
- UPC: 715515243216
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