Summer Holiday
This Technicolor-glorious version of Eugene O'Neill's beloved coming-of-age play "Ah, Wilderness!" The splendid cast is headed by Mickey Rooney (who played the youngest brother in 1935's "Ah, Wilderness!")
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 20, 2010
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Walter Huston, Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Frank Morgan, Marilyn Maxwell & Agnes Moorehead | |
| Performer: | Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Selena Royle & Anne Francis | |
| Directed by | Rouben Mamoulian | |
| Edited by | Albert Akst | |
| Screenwriting by | Frances Goodrich, Irving Brecher, Albert Hackett & Jean Holloway | |
| Composition by | Harry Warren | |
| Cinematography by | Charles Schoenbaum | |
| Art Direction by | Jack Martin Smith | |
| Produced by | Arthur Freed |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: B+ --
Mickey Rooney may not be the ideal actor to play Eugene O'Neill's alter ego, but as a nostalgic evocation of small town life at the turn of the century, Mamoulian's musical version of Ah, Wilderness is evocative, charming and nice to look at.
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Rating: B --
A pleasant turn of the century musical remake of the hit 1935 MGM comedy-drama Ah, Wilderness!
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A sweet movie with good work by all the actors, Summer Holiday benefits immeasurably from director Mamoulian's inventiveness and the handsome cinematography and production values.
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TV Guide
The songs are an undistinguished distraction from solid comic playing by the leads (especially Huston). And anyone familiar with previous versions will be unable to see the point.
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Film4
It must be conceded that the film is a gay enough lark, with fine production numbers and good songs -- one in particular, "Stanley Stamer" being outstanding.
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Courier Mail (Australia)
The Eugene O'Neill play, Ah. Wilderness with its account of a turn-of-the-century smalltown New England family, provides admirable setting, story, color and mood for the musical numbers and script.
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Variety
Where Mr. O'Neill's reminiscence of adolescent youth back in the days of peg-top trousers, of the Rubaiyat craze and the five-cent schooner of beer was a subtle and sensitive understanding, this picture is largely a big lark.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Two artists who know all about translating America into Americana - Arthur Freed, who produced Meet Me in St. Louis, and Rouben Mamoulian, who directed the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! - work some turn-of-the-century magic again with Summer Holiday. This Technicolor-glorious version of Eugene O'Neill's beloved coming-of-age play Ah, Wilderness! boasts Harry Warren/Ralph Blane tunes as spirited as the 4th of July. The splendid cast is headed by Mickey Rooney (who played the youngest brother in 1935's Ah, Wilderness!) as a lad from a warm, eccentric family who graduates from high school and into Life, complete with grand ideas, chorus girls and his first beer. The Stanley Steamer is waiting. Hop in!
Product Description:
Adapted from Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!" about an eager young boy coming of age in early Americana.
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