The Quitter

A woman struggles to raise her two headstrong sons after her husband is killed in World War I.
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  3A6SC
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DVD-R Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: October 28, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1934
  • Label: Alpha Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 80
As The Quitter progresses, Jonathan merely grows nicer and nicer, rendering the character's obligatory, runtime-padding third-act doubts false and unconvincing. Full Review
Village Voice
Sep 9, 2014
...The Quitter is destined for niche markets where, with any luck, it will find a core audience of viewers looking for movies with more heart than razzle-dazzle. Full Review
Film Journal International
Sep 12, 2014
Remember when indie films starred normal people with average cheekbones and jawlines, inadequately lighted? Matthew Bonifacio's "The Quitter" is a return to that style, and a simple story well told. Full Review
New York Times
Sep 11, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- "Quitter" is assured and offhandedly sweet. And it's a relief from the easy pitches that define so many projects, big and small. Full Review
New York Daily News
Sep 11, 2014

Description by OLDIES.com:

Newspaper publisher Ed Tilford dies on the Western Front during World War I. Without a father, his sons Eddie and Russell grow up at odds with each other. Eddie is a street tough who has fallen under the spell of Mary, a femme fatale. Meanwhile, Russell has joined high society and wants to change the family newspaper into a scandal tabloid. Unbeknownst to them, their father is still alive, having faked his death twenty years earlier.

Star Charley Grapewin was a vaudeville performer who began his career in film at the turn of the century, starring in the F.S. Armitage short Above the Limit (1900). However, he is best remembered for playing fatherly roles later in his career. He portrayed both Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). He then had a recurring role as Ralph Bellamy's father in the popular Ellery Queen series of the 1940s. William Bakewell, who plays Russell, had a long career in Hollywood, appearing in films ranging from Oscar winners like All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Gone With the Wind (1939) to B-movie fare such as Radar Men from the Moon (1952). Mary Kornman, her traditionally blonde hair dyed black, breaks type as a seductress in The Quitter. The former child actress had been the female star of Pathe's Our Gang series from 1923 to 1926.

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  • Sales Rank: 21,235
  • UPC: 089218750495
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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