A Bill of Divorcement
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 26, 2019
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter & Herbert Marshall | |
Performer: | May Whitty, Patric Knowles, C. Aubrey Smith & Ernest Cossart | |
Directed by | John Farrow | |
Edited by | Harry Marker | |
Screenwriting by | Dalton Trumbo | |
Original story by | Clemence Dane | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Art Direction by | Van Nest Polglase | |
Produced by | Robert Sisk | |
Director of Photography: | Nicholas Musuraca | |
Executive Production by | Lee Marcus |
Entertainment Reviews:
53%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 585
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
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
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Even in 1932, when the melodrama was made, the biological and moral issues of insanity were outdated, but Cukor's film features an original, striking turn from Katharine Hepburn in her screen debut.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
Rating: C+ --
Outdated family drama about dealing with mental illness.
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Product Description:
A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, BILL OF DIVORCEMENT tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's homecoming has on this household. Adolphe Menjou, a longtime mental patient, is released after 20 years' confinement and returns home. Only vaguely aware of the time lapse, Menjou meets his daughter (Maureen O'Hara), and attempts a reunion with his wife (Fay Bainter), who is on the verge of divorcing her long-absent husband and remarrying. Thanks to undue pressure from friends and family, the wife very nearly takes her husband back, much against her will. But the daughter steps in and volunteers to sacrifice her own future to take care of her father, thereby allowing mother to chart her own course of happiness. Incredibly dated in its attitudes toward divorce and insanity, BILL OF DIVORCEMENT worked somewhat better in its 1932 version, thanks to the charisma and chemistry of John Barrymore as the father and newcomer Katharine Hepburn as the daughter. For many years, the 1940 BILL OF DIVORCEMENT was retitled NEVER TO LOVE when shown on TV.
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Product Info
- UPC: 738329234539
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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