Since You Went Away (Blu-ray)
A love story of today's love and laughter
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 21, 2017
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Walker & Guy Madison | |
Performer: | Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Leo G. Carroll, Henry Daniell, Henry Stephenson, Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Albert Bassermann, Keenan Wynn, Craig Stevens, Lloyd Corrigan & Jackie Moran | |
Directed by | John Cromwell | |
Screenplay by | David O. Selznick | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Produced by | David O. Selznick | |
Director of Photography: | Stanley Cortez & Lee Garmes |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1944 -
Best Original Score: Max Steiner
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A+ --
Since You Went Away (1944) is a vivid, sentimental portrait of the World War II homefront with its trials, fears, heartbreaks, and its tribute to American family values. One of the poignant film's posters declared it: "A love story of today's...
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AMC Filmsite
...The definitive film on its subject...
USA Today
Rating: 2/5 --
World War II propaganda homefront schmaltz
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
...Some of [Colbert's] finest dramatic moments... -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 5/5 --
Beautifully made wartime drama with stellar cast.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3.5/5 --
I cherished the film's three-hour running time because it gave me time to get to know these people, even love them a little.
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Goatdog's Movies
Selznick placed a big bet on Shirley Temple's comeback and she pays off enchantingly as a dogged, sensitive, practical little girl with a talent for bargaining.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
In their seventh and final collaboration, master impresario David O. Selznick (GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ) wrote and produced while John Cromwell (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS) directed this beloved World War II blockbuster about life on the home front. Claudette Colbert stars as Anne Hilton, an attractive housewife whose husband is fighting in Europe. SINCE YOU WENT AWAY examines the day-to-day lives of Anne and her fellow war brides as they find employment in ammunition factories, take in boarders to make ends meet, and try not to think about what might be happening to their husbands in combat. Hattie McDaniel contributes a strong performance as the family maid, Agnes Moorehead provides a stinging edge with her turn as a woman twisted by the privations of war, and Shirley Temple and Jennifer Jones shine as Anne's two daughters, Bridget and Jane, maturing and embarking on their first romantic escapades. Brilliantly scored, SINCE YOU WENT AWAY is a touching, sentimental, realistic portrait of American family life during World War II.