The Barretts of Wimpole Street
"When poets love heaven and earth, fall back to watch!" exclaimed ads for this prestigious film. The hyperbole was prophetic. So many moviegoers watched The Barretts of Wimpole Street that is became one of 1934's top box-office hits.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 4, 2014
- Originally Released: 1934
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Norma Shearer, Fredric March & Charles Laughton | |
| Performer: | Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ralph Forbes, Ian Wolfe, Ferdinand Munier, Una O'Connor & Leo G. Carroll | |
| Directed by | Sidney Franklin | |
| Edited by | Margaret Booth | |
| Screenplay by | Ernest Vajda, Claudine West & Donald Ogden Stewart | |
| Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
| Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
| Produced by | Irving Thalberg | |
| Director of Photography: | William H. Daniels |
Entertainment Reviews:
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72%
Everyone in it is completely vicious, angelic, comic, splendid or nitwitted.
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Maclean's Magazine
As a film it's slow. Very. The first hour is wandering, planting-the-plot stuff that has some difficulty cementing the interest, but in the final stretch it grips and holds.
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Variety
An exceptionally charming and frequently moving piece of work.
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Vanity Fair
Slow, deliberate, dull.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
When not even Charles Laughton, playing a deranged, scarily pious, and pretty obviously incestuous domineering father can save a film, you know you have problems.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the better-known and more typical of MGM's adaptations of famous stage plays.
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TV Guide
Rating: B --
Sidney Franklin's Oscar nominated period romance about the titular poets is stiff and stagy, but it offers good roles for Laughton as the tyrannical father and Norma Shearer as his invalid daughter. This version is superior to the later remake.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Norma Shearer -- "The First Lady of the Screen" -- portrays semi-invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett, Fredric March is Robert Browning, whose ardent courtship of Elizabeth transforms her life. And Charles Laughton (who shed fifty pounds for the role) plays Edward Moulton-Barrett, the tyrant bent on denying happiness to his nine children.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 31,938
- UPC: 883316951576
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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