A Bill of Divorcement (Blu-ray)

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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: July 10, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1932
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 585
Rating: C+ -- Outdated family drama about dealing with mental illness. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Aug 12, 2008
...This early Selznick is Hepburn's screen debut....A must...
USA Today
Jun 15, 1990
Rating: B -- Even in 1932, when the melodrama was made, the biological and moral issues of insanity were outdated, but Cukor's film features an original, striking turn from Katharine Hepburn in her screen debut. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jul 10, 2006
John Barrymore and Miss Hepburn brighten the generally pat and stuffy feeling of the movie and make it entertaining. Full Review
Vanity Fair
Jun 5, 2019
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 Full Review
CinePassion
Jul 4, 2011

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.

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  • UPC: 738329228446
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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