A Bill of Divorcement (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 10, 2018
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke & David Manners | |
Performer: | Paul Cavanagh, Elizabeth Patterson & Henry Stephenson | |
Directed by | George Cukor | |
Edited by | Arthur Roberts | |
Screenplay by | Howard Estabrook & Harry Wagstaff Gribble | |
Original story by | Clemence Dane | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Carroll Clark | |
Director of Photography: | Sidney Hickox | |
Executive Production by | David O. Selznick |
Entertainment Reviews:
53%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 585
Rating: C+ --
Outdated family drama about dealing with mental illness.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...This early Selznick is Hepburn's screen debut....A must...
USA Today
Rating: B --
Even in 1932, when the melodrama was made, the biological and moral issues of insanity were outdated, but Cukor's film features an original, striking turn from Katharine Hepburn in her screen debut.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
John Barrymore and Miss Hepburn brighten the generally pat and stuffy feeling of the movie and make it entertaining.
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Vanity Fair
The dramaturgy is pure 19th-century, yet Cukor gives you Barrymore and the debuting Hepburn cutting through it like a couple of long-stemmed knives
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CinePassion
Product Description:
Katharine Hepburn makes a powerful screen debut in A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT as the young Sydney Fairfield, a woman whose world is transformed when a stranger arrives in her life. John Barrymore gives a stunning, nuanced performance as her father, Hilary Fairfield, who, confined for years in a mental institution, finally escapes and returns to his wife and daughter. Arriving just after his wife has filed for divorce, Hilary upsets the balance established in his absence yet also lays the groundwork for an emotional drama in which the renewal of the father-daughter bond drives the story. Barrymore is at his finest, and Hepburn's onscreen magnetism rendered her an instant sensation; she would continue to work with director Cukor in many of his subsequent films. A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT is based on the play by Clemence Dane, which draws from Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS.