Sweet Bird of Youth
A womanizing drifter returns to his Florida hometown with an aging movie actress.
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Sweet Bird of Youth (Blu-ray)
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 9, 2017
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley & Rip Torn | |
| Performer: | Philip Abbott, Mildred Dunnock, Madeleine Sherwood & Corey Allen | |
| Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
| Edited by | Henry Berman | |
| Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
| Original story by | Tennessee Williams | |
| Composition by | Robert Armbruster | |
| Art Direction by | George W. Davis & Urie McCleary | |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
| Director of Photography: | Milton R. Krasner |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 5/5 --
Strong cast (Newman, Page) in deeply dramatic Williams drama.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: B --
In 1962, the film was deemed audacious due to its handling of such taboo issues as drugs, abortion, and degeneracy, but it's a comromised work which deviates substantially from Tennessee Williams' play.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
It's a glossy, engrossing hunk of motion picture entertainment, slickly produced by Berman.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
Newman and Page elevate Williams' melodramatic romance.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Rating: 2/4 --
When approaching 1962's Sweet Bird of Youth, go for the parts rather than the whole.... [T]he film is a long drive through swampy melodrama.
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DVDJournal.com
Page and Newman are fantastic.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The film gets a little bogged down in minutiae and irrelevant side plots, but on the whole it's solid and searing.
Filmcritic.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
Handsome Chance Wayne never found the Hollywood stardom he craved, but he's always been a star with the ladies. Now, back in his sleepy, sweaty Gulf Coast hometown, he's involved with two of them: a washed-up, drug-and-vodka-addled movie queen and the girl he left behind...and in trouble.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 43,460
- UPC: 888574489328
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item
