The Circle
Thirty years after his mother ran off with another man, a stuffy aristocrat discovers his wife has similar plans.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 6, 2012
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis, Eugenie Besserer & George Fawcett | |
| Performer: | Creighton Hale, Eulalie Jensen & Joan Crawford | |
| Directed by | Frank Borzage | |
| Screenwriting by | Kenneth B. Clarke | |
| Original story by | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| Cinematography by | Chester Lyons | |
| Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & James Basevi | |
| Director of Photography: | Chester Lyons |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3.5/5 --
An intriguing combination of drama and documentary, this Swiss film tells a simple story that's compelling and still timely, addressing issues of equality and prejudice from an often startlingly personal perspective.
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Contactmusic.com
Stefan Haupt beautifully re-creates the enduring love story between two members, French-literature teacher Ernst Ostertag and hairdresser/drag queen Röbi Rapp, that survived the stresses of secrecy and homophobia of the 1950s.
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Georgia Straight
The Circle does a great job of taking us back to a more repressive time in gay history (which continues in some areas of the world to this very day) - so much so that it's infuriating to watch at times.
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Gay Essential
Rating: 3/4 --
Stefan Haupt's conscientious and engaging film makes clear right off the bat that, no, there was no place in Europe that was a gay utopia in this period and that even the most progressive-minded of societies had their growing pains.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 4/5 --
The Circle ... offers the best of both worlds, a perfect marriage of marvellous historical drama and moving testimony.
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Irish Times
Rating: 4/5 --
One of Europe's leading gay rights organisations is the subject of this fascinating and vital docu-drama.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 3/5 --
It's not exactly Oscar-worthy drama, but you'll feel the injustice of people forced to hide their true selves.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
Bored with her marriage to stuffy aristocrat Arnold Cheney (Creighton Hale), Elizabeth (Eleanor Boardman) is planning to trade him in for a new model (Malcolm McGregor), just as Arnold's mother (Eugenie Besserer) did to his father (Alec Francis) 30 years before. To help her decide if she's made the right choice, Elizabeth invites her mother-in-law and her husband (George Fawcett) to pay them a visit, while Arnold takes measures to save his marriage with a hard-hitting plan of his own.
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- Sales Rank: 16,789
- UPC: 883316676851
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