The Male Animal
Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star once fancied by his wife, and the threatening loss of his tenure.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 4, 2009
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson & Hattie McDaniel | |
Performer: | Don DeFore, Herbert Anderson & Eugene Pallette | |
Directed by | Elliott Nugent | |
Edited by | Thomas Richards | |
Screenwriting by | Philip G. Epstein & Julius J. Epstein | |
Written by | Stephen Morehouse Avery | |
Composition by | Heinz Roemheld | |
Story by | James Thurber & Elliott Nugent | |
Produced by | Wolfgang Reinhardt | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Edeson |
Entertainment Reviews:
57%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 212
Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland have achieved two triumphal performances in this delightful movie. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Rating: B --
The stagebound film has its amusing moments, solid performances and a still timely message about academic freedom.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...[A] still-funny romp...
USA Today
A surprisingly relevant movie on academic freedom in light of Ward Churchill and pro-Palestinian professors being victimized today.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
His fangs are bared, his hackles raised, his gin bottle nearly empty. The Male Animal is out of his lair, storming battle-of-the-sexes-bulwarks, skewering college athletics and speaking his mind when folks of narrower hat size seek to stop him. Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star (Jack Carson) once - perhaps still - fancied by Turner's wife (Olivia de Havilland), and the academic tussle that threatens the professor's tenure. This Hollywood version of the Broadway smash co-written by James Thurber stays close to its source - the film's director is the stage hit's other writer and star Elliott Nugent."
Product Description:
A college instructor on the verge of full professorship has his personal and professional life turned upside-down by a newspaper editorial and the arrival of his wife's old football-hero flame. Based on the play by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 2,179
- UPC: 883316118979
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