A Double Life

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 18, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1947
  • Label: Olive

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1947 - Best Actor: Ronald Colman
Academy Awards 1947 - Best Original Score: Miklos Rozsa

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,540
Subtle, well-directed drama. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Aug 8, 2008
Rating: B -- Ronald Colman won a Best Actor Oscar for his ornate and hammy performance as an obsessed matinee-idol stage actor cracking up before our eyes. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 2, 2007
It was the role of a lifetime, for any actor, but Colman got it, and he nailed it. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe, and he deserved them. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Sep 26, 2012
Rating: B -- Cukor's first teaming with writers Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin draws on the professional hazard of actors who fail to distinguish between their lives on stage and off; Ronald Colman won the Oscar for this part. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 18, 2006
...Dark, tension-filled....A shadowy backstage tale... -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 31, 1995
Rating: 2/5 -- Colman faz um belo trabalho como o perturbado ator que falha em separar realidade da ficção, mas Cukor e seus roteiristas se perde nos aspectos da produção que devem ao noir, tornando-a frágil e artificial.
Cinema em Cena
Feb 19, 2009

Product Description:

George Cukor's perfectly mannered direction confidently guides this brooding and cynical film noir that is considered by many the highlight of actor Ronald Colman's career. A DOUBLE LIFE explores the dangers of blurring the line between reality and illusion in this examination of the schizoid personality of a talented stage actor who begins to confuse his role with his life. Colman gives a magnificent, mesmerizing performance as veteran thespian Anthony John, who begins to mentally derail during a run of OTHELLO. John's courtly manners and reputation have a winning charm that endear him to both audiences and women, including his ex-wife, Brita (Signe Hasso), who acts opposite him in the play, and Pat (Shelley Winters), a young, sexy waitress. However, the charming actor, like his stage character, appears capable of violent behavior. Colman's performance earned him an Academy Award as well as applause from critics and viewers. A DOUBLE LIFE was the first among many successful collaborations between Cukor and the screenwriting team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.

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  • UPC: 887090042901
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