The Heiress (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
A truly great motion picture
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 7, 2019
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift & Ralph Richardson | |
| Performer: | Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, Mona Freeman, Ray Collins, Selena Royle & Russ Conway | |
| Directed by | William Wyler | |
| Edited by | William Hornbeck | |
| Screenwriting by | Augustus Goetz & Ruth Goetz | |
| Composition by | Aaron Copland | |
| Art Direction by | John Meehan | |
| Produced by | William Wyler | |
| Director of Photography: | Leo Tover |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1949 -
Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland
Academy Awards 1949 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Harry Horner & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1949 -
Best Costume Design (b&w): Edith Head & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1949 -
Best Original Score: Aaron Copland
Entertainment Reviews:
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The reputation of this exceedingly fine film has continued to grow as the decades have rolled on, and the performances of a strong cast certainly deserve much of that credit.
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DVD Review
Rating: 4/4 --
The film works so well because those surging emotional currents, although often pushed just below the surface, give it a constant tension that draws you in like a thriller.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 4/5 --
More interesting for the things it leaves unsaid than the occasionally staid melodramatic story.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Rating: 4/4 --
A deft psychological drama powered by superlative performances.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: A- --
Wyler's superlative rendition of Henry James' novel Washington Square is meticulously mounted with great acting from Olivia De Havilland, Monty Clift, and particularly Ralph Richardson, dark-noirish lensing, and powerful score from Aaron Copeland.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: A+ --
The Heiress (1949), as the theatrical poster declared, is "a truly great motion picture" - a bleak tale of crushed, heartbroken expectations and incisively-harsh retribution. The top-line, prestige production was directed by William Wyler...
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: A --
Though it had a poor box office upon its release, it eventually became recognized as a masterpiece.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
A superb cinematic version of the Henry James' novel "Washington Square." After discovering that his bride-to-be is going to be disinherited, a handsome young fortune hunter jilts her on the night of their elopement. Years later, when the woman's fortune is secured, the man returns and again asks for her hand, but his erstwhile sweetheart has other plans for him. Copeland's score is magnificent. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Picture; Best Director.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 74,347
- UPC: 715515229418
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