The Diary of Anne Frank (Blu-ray)
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1967)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2009
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shelley Winters, Millie Perkins & Joseph Schildkraut | |
Performer: | Diane Baker, Lou Jacobi, Richard Beymer, Ed Wynn, Douglas Spencer, Gusti Huber & Dody Heath | |
Directed by | George Stevens | |
Edited by | Robert Swink, David Bretherton & William Mace | |
Screenwriting by | Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett | |
Composition by | Alfred Newman | |
Produced by | George Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Cardiff & William C. Mellor |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Lyle Wheeler & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
A vivid and carefully produced work of poignancy and loss.
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TV Guide
One of those extremely long and well-meaning adaptations of plays, this doesn't really amount to very much, despite its intrinsically moving subject matter.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Mr. Stevens has done a superb job of putting upon the screen the basic drama and shivering authenticity of the Frances Goodrich-Albert Hackett play, which in turn caught the magnitude of drama in the real-life diary of a Jewish girl.
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New York Times
The film, for all its power and humanity, is too long and moves too slowly toward its inescapable ending, but it remains a prime contender for one or more Academy Awards.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Remains a potent statement about the horrors of war and a valid testament to the girl who could answer them by writing, 'I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.' [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Stevens took some stick for casting an unknown as Anne, but his decision paid off as Perkins is refreshingly unmannered in the role.
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Film4
The Anne Frank saga remains moving, personal, and relavant, no matter how distant we become in time.
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Austin Chronicle
Product Description:
George Stevens' life-altering experience of witnessing the death camps after WWII was doubtless responsible for his desire to adapt the famed diary of the teenaged Jewish girl, played by Millie Perkins. With the feared 'Green Police' or Dutch Gestapo combing Amsterdam in search of Jews, Anne, her parents, Otto (Joseph Schildkraut) and Edith (Anna Huber) another Jewish family, the Van Daans, and a dentist Albert Dussell (Ed Wynn) take refuge for two years in a small attic provided by Gentile shop owners Kraler (Douglas Spencer) and Miep (Dody Heath). Despite their precarious situation, and the sense of claustrophobia created by having to live together in such crowded conditions, covering the windows during the day, and keeping as quiet as possible at all times, the families carry on as best they can. For Anne, her platonic romance with Peter Van Daan (Richard Beymer), the attractive son of often voluble parents, makes the experience more bearable than it is for the adults, whose sense of foreboding is palpable. By surrounding the inexperienced Perkins with a talented cast of veteran performers, which also includes Shelley Winters and Lou Jacobi, Stevens achieves a moving portrait of Frank's innocent precocity, with her ultimate fate the tragic subtext of this intensely compelling film.
Product Description:
With compelling performances from an all-star cast, including Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Richard Beymer and Lou Jacobi, The Diary of Anne Frank is as gripping and heart-wrenching now as it was during its initial release! In honor of the film’s 50th Anniversary, this Special Edition DVD offers an unprecedented look at the making of the film with an audio commentary, seven exclusive featurettes, photo galleries and more! Following the Nazi invasion of Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne and her family go into hiding in the confines of an attic. Anne’s remarkable account of their lives, their growing fear of discovery, their deplorable living conditions and even the blooming of her first love are intimately portrayed in this extraordinary portrait of humanity. Nominated for eight 1959 Oscars® and winning three, The Diary of Anne Frank remains one of cinema’s most astounding and enduring treasures.
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